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Page xxviii
... heat in the temper of his brain . 66 He had no despotical power over his affections and passions ( that was a privilege of original perfection , forfeited by the neglect of the use of it ) , but as large a political power over them as ...
... heat in the temper of his brain . 66 He had no despotical power over his affections and passions ( that was a privilege of original perfection , forfeited by the neglect of the use of it ) , but as large a political power over them as ...
Page xxxiv
... heat concessions to Atheism , or Deism , which their most confident advocates had never dared to claim or to hope . A sally of levity , an idle paradox , an indecent jest , an unseasonable objection , are sufficient , in the opinion of ...
... heat concessions to Atheism , or Deism , which their most confident advocates had never dared to claim or to hope . A sally of levity , an idle paradox , an indecent jest , an unseasonable objection , are sufficient , in the opinion of ...
Page xxxix
... heat of his majesty's service , dare contest with me , and be content , upon any terms , to murder his commander . " " Dr. Birch adds , in a note , that Sir Hatton Cheke was , soon after the surrender of Juliers , killed in a duel , on ...
... heat of his majesty's service , dare contest with me , and be content , upon any terms , to murder his commander . " " Dr. Birch adds , in a note , that Sir Hatton Cheke was , soon after the surrender of Juliers , killed in a duel , on ...
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... heat . " Not far from the beginning of the chapter , he had previously defined water to be " a cold moisture ; " and in the passage in question he says that salts and nitre ( the virpov of the Greeks , which was not our nitre , or ...
... heat . " Not far from the beginning of the chapter , he had previously defined water to be " a cold moisture ; " and in the passage in question he says that salts and nitre ( the virpov of the Greeks , which was not our nitre , or ...
Page 93
... heat obtained by immersing the vessel containing the substance to be heated in a bath of heated water , oil , sand , or other convenient medium ; whence the water bath and sand bath , or sand heat of modern chemistry . The ignis rote ...
... heat obtained by immersing the vessel containing the substance to be heated in a bath of heated water , oil , sand , or other convenient medium ; whence the water bath and sand bath , or sand heat of modern chemistry . The ignis rote ...
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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.