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Page vi
... become of this Life , says , “ It was not printed in the Biographical Memoirs of Medicine , the only work of my father's on medical biography , because that work comes no lower than Harvey : but he inserted it , I apprehend , in an ...
... become of this Life , says , “ It was not printed in the Biographical Memoirs of Medicine , the only work of my father's on medical biography , because that work comes no lower than Harvey : but he inserted it , I apprehend , in an ...
Page xxxiv
... become friends to infidelity only by unskilful hostility men of rigid orthodoxy , cautious conversation , and religious asperity . Among these , it is too frequently the practice , to make in their heat concessions to Atheism , or Deism ...
... become friends to infidelity only by unskilful hostility men of rigid orthodoxy , cautious conversation , and religious asperity . Among these , it is too frequently the practice , to make in their heat concessions to Atheism , or Deism ...
Page xxxviii
... become of them . We have them not ; and must , therefore , proceed to do our best without them . It appears , that when Browne left the university , he took up his first residence somewhere ( we are not informed where ) in Oxfordshire ...
... become of them . We have them not ; and must , therefore , proceed to do our best without them . It appears , that when Browne left the university , he took up his first residence somewhere ( we are not informed where ) in Oxfordshire ...
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... become inflexible unto the powerfullest arm of reason . Although we have also beheld , what cold requitals others have found in their several redemptions of truth ; and how their ingenuous enquiries have been dismissed with cen- sure ...
... become inflexible unto the powerfullest arm of reason . Although we have also beheld , what cold requitals others have found in their several redemptions of truth ; and how their ingenuous enquiries have been dismissed with cen- sure ...
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... becoming daily less necessary to contradict what is daily less believed . It happened to the editor , some years since , to visit the cathedral of Aachen ( Gallicè , Aix - la - Chapelle ) , where , Thus Theudas , 9 an impostor , was ...
... becoming daily less necessary to contradict what is daily less believed . It happened to the editor , some years since , to visit the cathedral of Aachen ( Gallicè , Aix - la - Chapelle ) , where , Thus Theudas , 9 an impostor , was ...
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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.