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Page xxviii
... wherein his observations were singular , not taken notice of by common readers ; he was excellent company when he was at leisure , and expressed more light than heat in the temper of his brain . 66 He had no despotical power over his ...
... wherein his observations were singular , not taken notice of by common readers ; he was excellent company when he was at leisure , and expressed more light than heat in the temper of his brain . 66 He had no despotical power over his ...
Page xxix
... wherein he found nothing admirable . 66 " In his religion he continued in the same mind which he had declared in his first book , written when he was but thirty years old , his Religio Medici , wherein he fully assented to that of the ...
... wherein he found nothing admirable . 66 " In his religion he continued in the same mind which he had declared in his first book , written when he was but thirty years old , his Religio Medici , wherein he fully assented to that of the ...
Page xxx
... wherein he continued about a week's time , enduring great pain of the cholick , besides a continual fever , with as much patience as hath been seen in any man , without any pretence of stoical apathy , animosity , or vanity , of not ...
... wherein he continued about a week's time , enduring great pain of the cholick , besides a continual fever , with as much patience as hath been seen in any man , without any pretence of stoical apathy , animosity , or vanity , of not ...
Page xlv
... wherein he emulated Hercules ; and undertaking by his Pseud . Ep . to clear the sciences from error , he fell nothing short of the other's labour , in cleansing the Augean stable . ' " Niceron remarks , that " it is an excellent work ...
... wherein he emulated Hercules ; and undertaking by his Pseud . Ep . to clear the sciences from error , he fell nothing short of the other's labour , in cleansing the Augean stable . ' " Niceron remarks , that " it is an excellent work ...
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... wherein there is not an erroneous conception ; and , strictly examined , most heinously injurious unto truth . The pen of Moses is brief in the account before the flood , and the speeches recorded are but six . The first is that of Adam ...
... wherein there is not an erroneous conception ; and , strictly examined , most heinously injurious unto truth . The pen of Moses is brief in the account before the flood , and the speeches recorded are but six . The first is that of Adam ...
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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.