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Page xii
... perhaps , sometimes befallen others ; and this , I am willing to believe did really happen to Dr. Browne : but there is surely some reason to doubt the truth of the complaint so fre- quently made of surreptitious editions . A song , or ...
... perhaps , sometimes befallen others ; and this , I am willing to believe did really happen to Dr. Browne : but there is surely some reason to doubt the truth of the complaint so fre- quently made of surreptitious editions . A song , or ...
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... perhaps , there is no human being , however hid in the crowd from the observation of his fellow - mortals , who , if he has leisure and disposition to recol- lect his own thoughts and actions , will not conclude his life in some sort a ...
... perhaps , there is no human being , however hid in the crowd from the observation of his fellow - mortals , who , if he has leisure and disposition to recol- lect his own thoughts and actions , will not conclude his life in some sort a ...
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... perhaps , none of his works which better exemplifies his reading or memory . It is scarcely to be imagined , how many particulars he has amassed together , in a treatise which seems to have been occasionally written ; and for which ...
... perhaps , none of his works which better exemplifies his reading or memory . It is scarcely to be imagined , how many particulars he has amassed together , in a treatise which seems to have been occasionally written ; and for which ...
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... perhaps , we owe the C Mystically Considered . ] He withstood the Copernican hypothesis- on precisely the same ground on which some modern naturalists are disposed to regard , with apprehension and distrust , the Cuvierian System of ...
... perhaps , we owe the C Mystically Considered . ] He withstood the Copernican hypothesis- on precisely the same ground on which some modern naturalists are disposed to regard , with apprehension and distrust , the Cuvierian System of ...
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... perhaps , perished among other innumerable labours of learned men , or have been burnt in a scarcity of fuel like the papers of Pereskius . The first of these posthumous treatises contains " observations upon several plants mentioned in ...
... perhaps , perished among other innumerable labours of learned men , or have been burnt in a scarcity of fuel like the papers of Pereskius . The first of these posthumous treatises contains " observations upon several plants mentioned in ...
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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.