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... salt unto them , and they took delight in the dust of their endeavours . For , questionless , in knowledge there is no slender difficulty ; and truth , which wise men say doth lie in a well , is not re- coverable by exantlation . It ...
... salt unto them , and they took delight in the dust of their endeavours . For , questionless , in knowledge there is no slender difficulty ; and truth , which wise men say doth lie in a well , is not re- coverable by exantlation . It ...
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... salt is easiest dissolvable in cold water . ] Upon examining the entire chapter ( vi . ) of the Meteors here cited , I found that our author had altogether mistaken the meaning of the passage relating to the so- lubility of salts ...
... salt is easiest dissolvable in cold water . ] Upon examining the entire chapter ( vi . ) of the Meteors here cited , I found that our author had altogether mistaken the meaning of the passage relating to the so- lubility of salts ...
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... Salts of Cicero , Augustus , and the comical wits of those times : in most whereof there is not much to admire , and are , methinks , ex- ceeded , not only in the replies of wise men , but the passages of society , and urbanities of our ...
... Salts of Cicero , Augustus , and the comical wits of those times : in most whereof there is not much to admire , and are , methinks , ex- ceeded , not only in the replies of wise men , but the passages of society , and urbanities of our ...
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... salt , the waters of Jericho had not been made wholesome . I know that a decoction of wild gourd or colocynthis ( though somewhat qualified ) will not from every hand be dulcified unto CHAP . XI . ] THE GREAT PROMOTER OF FALSE OPINIONS .
... salt , the waters of Jericho had not been made wholesome . I know that a decoction of wild gourd or colocynthis ( though somewhat qualified ) will not from every hand be dulcified unto CHAP . XI . ] THE GREAT PROMOTER OF FALSE OPINIONS .
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... salt , the principle of concretion , whereby we observe that ice may be made with salt and snow by the fire - side , as is also observable from ice made by saltpetre and water , duly mixed and strongly agitated , at any time of the year ...
... salt , the principle of concretion , whereby we observe that ice may be made with salt and snow by the fire - side , as is also observable from ice made by saltpetre and water , duly mixed and strongly agitated , at any time of the year ...
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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.