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Page lxxii
... doth wonderfully endeavour and extremely covet , that it may not be pensile ; but that it may light upon something fixed and immoveable , on which , as on a firmament , it may support itself in its swift motions and disquisitions ...
... doth wonderfully endeavour and extremely covet , that it may not be pensile ; but that it may light upon something fixed and immoveable , on which , as on a firmament , it may support itself in its swift motions and disquisitions ...
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... doth it disturb their com- munications , and much interrupt the office of our pens in their well - intended transmissions . And therefore surely in this work attempts will exceed performances ; it being com- posed by snatches of time ...
... doth it disturb their com- munications , and much interrupt the office of our pens in their well - intended transmissions . And therefore surely in this work attempts will exceed performances ; it being com- posed by snatches of time ...
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... doth sometimes nibble at Moses , and , beside the apostate Christian , * some hea- thens have questioned his philosophical part , or treaty of the creation , yet is there surely no reasonable pagan that will not admire the rational and ...
... doth sometimes nibble at Moses , and , beside the apostate Christian , * some hea- thens have questioned his philosophical part , or treaty of the creation , yet is there surely no reasonable pagan that will not admire the rational and ...
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... doth signify a testicle , and hath been thought by some , an injunction only of continency , as Aulus Gellius 7 converting metaphors into proprieties . ] " Taking an expression or representation which only by simile applies to a subject ...
... doth signify a testicle , and hath been thought by some , an injunction only of continency , as Aulus Gellius 7 converting metaphors into proprieties . ] " Taking an expression or representation which only by simile applies to a subject ...
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... doth know , that in the day ye shall eat thereof , your eyes shall be opened , and you shall be as gods . " Which was but a bare affirmation of Satan , without any proof or probable inducement , contrary unto the command of God , and ...
... doth know , that in the day ye shall eat thereof , your eyes shall be opened , and you shall be as gods . " Which was but a bare affirmation of Satan , without any proof or probable inducement , contrary unto the command of God , and ...
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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.