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Page xvii
... experiment . Browne might himself have obtained the same conviction by a method less operose , if he had thrust his needles through corks , and then set them afloat in two basons of water . Notwithstanding his zeal to detect old errors ...
... experiment . Browne might himself have obtained the same conviction by a method less operose , if he had thrust his needles through corks , and then set them afloat in two basons of water . Notwithstanding his zeal to detect old errors ...
Page lx
... experiments which Sir Robert was making in alchymy . Blomfield speaks of this gentleman as " a person of good learning , who , travelling into foreign countrys , collected many considerable rarities and curiosities , and being an accom ...
... experiments which Sir Robert was making in alchymy . Blomfield speaks of this gentleman as " a person of good learning , who , travelling into foreign countrys , collected many considerable rarities and curiosities , and being an accom ...
Page lxi
... experimental science . The remaining ten years of Sir Thomas's life afford us few incidents of importance or interest . His leisure seems to have been very considerably occupied with rendering professional and literary assistance to his ...
... experimental science . The remaining ten years of Sir Thomas's life afford us few incidents of importance or interest . His leisure seems to have been very considerably occupied with rendering professional and literary assistance to his ...
Page lxxiii
... experiments " See his preface , in which he says , 6 we cannot expect the frown of theology herein , & c . & c . ' to the end of the paragraph . ' i Rel . Med . k Rel . Med . " " 1 Rel . Med . " 1 See this ground stated by his annotator ...
... experiments " See his preface , in which he says , 6 we cannot expect the frown of theology herein , & c . & c . ' to the end of the paragraph . ' i Rel . Med . k Rel . Med . " " 1 Rel . Med . " 1 See this ground stated by his annotator ...
Page lxxiv
... experiment and examination . His Common - place Books exhibit abundant evi- dence that he trusted nothing to memory , but noted down , at the moment they struck him , the experiments and inquiries he deemed necessary to be made ...
... experiment and examination . His Common - place Books exhibit abundant evi- dence that he trusted nothing to memory , but noted down , at the moment they struck him , the experiments and inquiries he deemed necessary to be made ...
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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.