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... Knowledge under Difficulties , illustrated by Anec- dotes and Memoirs . Revised Edition . With numerous Portraits . Cruikshank's Three Courses and a Dessert . A Series of Tales , with 50 hu- morous Illustrations by Cruikshank . Dante ...
... Knowledge under Difficulties , illustrated by Anec- dotes and Memoirs . Revised Edition . With numerous Portraits . Cruikshank's Three Courses and a Dessert . A Series of Tales , with 50 hu- morous Illustrations by Cruikshank . Dante ...
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... knowledge ; either because it is more pleasing to gather ideas than to impart them , or because to minds naturally great , few things appear of so much importance as to deserve the notice of the publick . About the year 1634 , § he is ...
... knowledge ; either because it is more pleasing to gather ideas than to impart them , or because to minds naturally great , few things appear of so much importance as to deserve the notice of the publick . About the year 1634 , § he is ...
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... knowledge ; because it may be learned when it is repeated , or may be written out with very little trouble : but a long treatise , however elegant , is not often copied by mere zeal or curiosity , but may be worn out in passing from ...
... knowledge ; because it may be learned when it is repeated , or may be written out with very little trouble : but a long treatise , however elegant , is not often copied by mere zeal or curiosity , but may be worn out in passing from ...
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... knowledge . It is , indeed , to be wished , that he had longer delayed the publication , and added what the remaining part of his life might have furnished : the thirty - six years which he spent afterwards in study and experience ...
... knowledge . It is , indeed , to be wished , that he had longer delayed the publication , and added what the remaining part of his life might have furnished : the thirty - six years which he spent afterwards in study and experience ...
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... knowledge . Browne has interspersed many curious observations on the form of plants , and the laws of vegetation ; and appears to have been a very accurate observer of the modes of germination , and to have watched with great nicety the ...
... knowledge . Browne has interspersed many curious observations on the form of plants , and the laws of vegetation ; and appears to have been a very accurate observer of the modes of germination , and to have watched with great nicety the ...
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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.