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Page ii
... effects of camphor ; with many others . THE THIRD BOOK ; the particular part continued . received tenets concerning animals . · PAGE 133 157 166 192 210 Of popular and Chap . 1 . That an elephant hath no joints , & c . 220 · Chap . 2 ...
... effects of camphor ; with many others . THE THIRD BOOK ; the particular part continued . received tenets concerning animals . · PAGE 133 157 166 192 210 Of popular and Chap . 1 . That an elephant hath no joints , & c . 220 · Chap . 2 ...
Page xvi
... effect of a design early formed and long pursued , to which his remarks had been continually referred , and which arose gradually to its present bulk by the daily aggregation of new particles of knowledge . It is , indeed , to be wished ...
... effect of a design early formed and long pursued , to which his remarks had been continually referred , and which arose gradually to its present bulk by the daily aggregation of new particles of knowledge . It is , indeed , to be wished ...
Page xxii
... effect it . The principal design of this letter , is to show the affinity between the modern English and the ancient Saxon ; and he observes , very rightly , that " though we have borrowed many substantives , adjectives , and some verbs ...
... effect it . The principal design of this letter , is to show the affinity between the modern English and the ancient Saxon ; and he observes , very rightly , that " though we have borrowed many substantives , adjectives , and some verbs ...
Page liv
... effect which a solitary action or incident has produced upon the character or estimation of an individual . Such an incident occurred in the history of Sir Thomas Browne in the year 1664 ; and it is not a little singular that his ...
... effect which a solitary action or incident has produced upon the character or estimation of an individual . Such an incident occurred in the history of Sir Thomas Browne in the year 1664 ; and it is not a little singular that his ...
Page lxxvii
... effect in removing Epidemical diseases , " if any , " he would ascribe " unto the Prince of the Air . " This work he translated into Latin and published with two additional pieces , under the following title : - Endoxa seu Questionum ...
... effect in removing Epidemical diseases , " if any , " he would ascribe " unto the Prince of the Air . " This work he translated into Latin and published with two additional pieces , under the following title : - Endoxa seu Questionum ...
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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.