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Page viii
... mentioned , but in the great majority I was compelled to judge by the connection of their subjects with those which I had already dated . It was in short a process of approximation , which , after all , has left many very doubtfully ...
... mentioned , but in the great majority I was compelled to judge by the connection of their subjects with those which I had already dated . It was in short a process of approximation , which , after all , has left many very doubtfully ...
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... Life , & c . a Italian . ] This translation I have never met with , nor have I ever seen it more distinctly mentioned than in this notice . burg , the Latin translation was published with large notes xiv DR . JOHNSON'S LIFE OF.
... Life , & c . a Italian . ] This translation I have never met with , nor have I ever seen it more distinctly mentioned than in this notice . burg , the Latin translation was published with large notes xiv DR . JOHNSON'S LIFE OF.
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... mentioned in Scripture . " These remarks , though they do not immediately either rectify the faith , or refine the ... mention of " aucupium " and " piscatio , " they seem no more to have been considered as diversions , than agri ...
... mentioned in Scripture . " These remarks , though they do not immediately either rectify the faith , or refine the ... mention of " aucupium " and " piscatio , " they seem no more to have been considered as diversions , than agri ...
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... the earth . ” In the next , he answers two geographical questions ; one con- cerning Troas , mentioned in the Acts and Epistles of St. Paul , • which he determines to be the city built near xxii DR . JOHNSON'S LIFE OF.
... the earth . ” In the next , he answers two geographical questions ; one con- cerning Troas , mentioned in the Acts and Epistles of St. Paul , • which he determines to be the city built near xxii DR . JOHNSON'S LIFE OF.
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... mention . He was born about the year 1642 ; and after having passed through the classes of the school at Norwich , became bachelor of physick at Cambridge ; and afterwards removing to Merton College in Oxford , was admitted there to the ...
... mention . He was born about the year 1642 ; and after having passed through the classes of the school at Norwich , became bachelor of physick at Cambridge ; and afterwards removing to Merton College in Oxford , was admitted there to 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.