Letters Concerning the English NationL. Davis and C. Reymers; R. Baldwin, and S. Crowder and Company, 1760 - 255 страници |
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... also to doubt . Instead of concluding at once what we know not , he examines gradually what we wou'd know . He takes an infant at the inftant of his birth ; he traces , ftep by step , the progrefs of his understanding ; examines what ...
... also to doubt . Instead of concluding at once what we know not , he examines gradually what we wou'd know . He takes an infant at the inftant of his birth ; he traces , ftep by step , the progrefs of his understanding ; examines what ...
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... also have created another particular vortex which floats in the great one , and which turns daily round the planets . When all this is done , it is pretended that gravity de- pends on this diurnal motion ; for , fay thefe , the velocity ...
... also have created another particular vortex which floats in the great one , and which turns daily round the planets . When all this is done , it is pretended that gravity de- pends on this diurnal motion ; for , fay thefe , the velocity ...
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... also a new course Sir Ifaac Newton has gone through , and we are oblig'd to him for the clue , by whofe affiftance we are enabled to trace its various windings . DES CARTES got the start of him alfo in this astonishing invention . He ...
... also a new course Sir Ifaac Newton has gone through , and we are oblig'd to him for the clue , by whofe affiftance we are enabled to trace its various windings . DES CARTES got the start of him alfo in this astonishing invention . He ...
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... also gave us feveral falfe æras . Ir appear'd in general to Sir Ifaac , that the world was five hundred years younger than chronologers declare it to be . He grounds his opinion on the ordinary course of nature , and on the obfervations ...
... also gave us feveral falfe æras . Ir appear'd in general to Sir Ifaac , that the world was five hundred years younger than chronologers declare it to be . He grounds his opinion on the ordinary course of nature , and on the obfervations ...
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... also have made learning appear venerable in the eyes of the vulgar , who have need to be led in all things by the great , and who , neverthe- lefs , fashion their manners lefs after those of the nobility ( in England I mean ) than in ...
... also have made learning appear venerable in the eyes of the vulgar , who have need to be led in all things by the great , and who , neverthe- lefs , fashion their manners lefs after those of the nobility ( in England I mean ) than in ...
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Страница 171 - And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her, side, and Megrim at her head.
Страница 139 - Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Страница 149 - He spoke of his works as of trifles that were beneath him ; and hinted to me, in our first conversation, that I should visit him upon no other foot than that of a gentleman, who led a life of plainness and simplicity.
Страница 170 - For, that sad moment, when the sylphs withdrew, And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew, Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite, As ever sullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repair'd to search the gloomy cave of Spleen.
Страница 18 - ... is both to God and man : If after all these warnings and advertisements, thou dost not turn unto the Lord with all thy heart, but forget him, who remembered thee in thy distress, and give up thyself to follow lust and vanity; surely great will be thy condemnation.
Страница 136 - No Traveller returns) puzzles the Will ; And makes us rather bear thofe Ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of. Thus...
Страница 148 - He was infirm and come to the verge of life when I knew him. Mr. Congreve had one defect, which was his entertaining too mean an idea of his first profession (that of a writer), though it was to this he owed his fame and fortune.
Страница 18 - Against which snare as well as the temptation of those that may or do feed thee, and prompt thee to evil, the most excellent and prevalent remedy will be, to apply thyself to that Light of Christ, which shineth in thy...
Страница 135 - To be, or not to be : that is the queftion— — — Whether 'tis nobler in the mind, to fuffer The flings and arrows of outragious fortune j Or to take arms againft a fea of troubles, * And by oppofing end them.
Страница 171 - She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side, and Megrim at her head. Two handmaids wait the throne: alike in place, But differing far in figure and in face.