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Page viii
... sense of obligation to the kindness of numerous friends who have rendered me advice , assistance , and encouragement . To enumerate them , were it possible to do so without omission after such a lapse of years- might have rather the ...
... sense of obligation to the kindness of numerous friends who have rendered me advice , assistance , and encouragement . To enumerate them , were it possible to do so without omission after such a lapse of years- might have rather the ...
Page xiii
... sense , and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason . " The first glance upon his book will indeed discover examples of this liberty of thought and expression : " I could be content ( says her ) to be nothing almost to eternity ...
... sense , and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason . " The first glance upon his book will indeed discover examples of this liberty of thought and expression : " I could be content ( says her ) to be nothing almost to eternity ...
Page xiv
... sense , in which all life is miraculous ; as it is an union of powers of which we can image no connexion , a succession of motions of which the first cause must be super- natural but life , thus explained , whatever it may have of ...
... sense , in which all life is miraculous ; as it is an union of powers of which we can image no connexion , a succession of motions of which the first cause must be super- natural but life , thus explained , whatever it may have of ...
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... independence , and to give them , in a wide sense , a knowledge of the world , by sending them abroad . Some of his daughters visited France , 66 though , in all probability , they were accompanied xlviii SUPPLEMENTARY MEMOIR .
... independence , and to give them , in a wide sense , a knowledge of the world , by sending them abroad . Some of his daughters visited France , 66 though , in all probability , they were accompanied xlviii SUPPLEMENTARY MEMOIR .
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... senses ; not carried away by his fancy . Hence , notwithstanding the somewhat contemptuous terms in which his travels are mentioned by Dr. Johnson , who neither understood nor cared for the subjects on which Browne wrote , he acquired ...
... senses ; not carried away by his fancy . Hence , notwithstanding the somewhat contemptuous terms in which his travels are mentioned by Dr. Johnson , who neither understood nor cared for the subjects on which Browne wrote , he acquired ...
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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.