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... appear to me to have been so complete or so revised and arranged , as the author would have left it . It will be expected that I should say a few words respecting See last page of Supplementary Memoir , and Archdeacon Jeffery's Preface ...
... appear to me to have been so complete or so revised and arranged , as the author would have left it . It will be expected that I should say a few words respecting See last page of Supplementary Memoir , and Archdeacon Jeffery's Preface ...
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... appears imperfect and neglected , without some account of the author , it was thought necessary to attempt the gratification of that curiosity , which naturally inquires by what peculiarities of nature or fortune eminent men have been ...
... appears imperfect and neglected , without some account of the author , it was thought necessary to attempt the gratification of that curiosity , which naturally inquires by what peculiarities of nature or fortune eminent men have been ...
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... appears that his mother was Ann , the daughter of Paul Garraway , of Lewes , in Sussex . He mentions his grandfather in a letter . f the school , & c . ] Wykeham's school , near Winchester . - Posth . Life . & left her son , & c ...
... appears that his mother was Ann , the daughter of Paul Garraway , of Lewes , in Sussex . He mentions his grandfather in a letter . f the school , & c . ] Wykeham's school , near Winchester . - Posth . Life . & left her son , & c ...
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... appear of so much importance as to deserve the notice of the publick . About the year 1634 , § he is supposed to have returned to London ; and the next year to have written his celebrated treatise , called Religio Medici , m " the ...
... appear of so much importance as to deserve the notice of the publick . About the year 1634 , § he is supposed to have returned to London ; and the next year to have written his celebrated treatise , called Religio Medici , m " the ...
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... appears , indeed , to have been willing to pay labour for truth . Having heard a flying rumour of sympathetick needles , by which , suspended over a circular alphabet , distant friends or lovers might correspond , he procured two such ...
... appears , indeed , to have been willing to pay labour for truth . Having heard a flying rumour of sympathetick needles , by which , suspended over a circular alphabet , distant friends or lovers might correspond , he procured two such ...
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Page xxxviii - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions, hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 348 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Page 31 - Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down ; for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Page 433 - So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.