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Page xvii
... proper , had not the favour with which it was at first received filled the kingdom with copies , to reprint it with notes partly supplemental and partly emendatory , to subjoin those discoveries which the industry of the last age has ...
... proper , had not the favour with which it was at first received filled the kingdom with copies , to reprint it with notes partly supplemental and partly emendatory , to subjoin those discoveries which the industry of the last age has ...
Page xxi
... proper interpretation of some ancient names of animals , commonly mistaken ; and in the other has some curious observations on the art of hawking , which he considers as a practice unknown to the ancients . I believe all our sports of ...
... proper interpretation of some ancient names of animals , commonly mistaken ; and in the other has some curious observations on the art of hawking , which he considers as a practice unknown to the ancients . I believe all our sports of ...
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... proper subject for doubts . He warns us in his doctrine of the idols of the under- standing , that , from our love of truth , we are anxious to possess it , and too ready to imagine ourselves enriched by the possession of counterfeit ...
... proper subject for doubts . He warns us in his doctrine of the idols of the under- standing , that , from our love of truth , we are anxious to possess it , and too ready to imagine ourselves enriched by the possession of counterfeit ...
Page lxxiii
... proper poles , or motion from the epicycle of my own brain . " Again : - " where the scripture is silent , the church is my text ; where that speaks , ' tis but my comment ; where both are silent , " & c . If we add to these passages ...
... proper poles , or motion from the epicycle of my own brain . " Again : - " where the scripture is silent , the church is my text ; where that speaks , ' tis but my comment ; where both are silent , " & c . If we add to these passages ...
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... proper course in the slow and sober wheel of the other . And this we shall more readily perform , if we timely survey our knowledge ; impartially singling out those encroachments which junior compliance and popular credulity hath ...
... proper course in the slow and sober wheel of the other . And this we shall more readily perform , if we timely survey our knowledge ; impartially singling out those encroachments which junior compliance and popular credulity hath ...
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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.