Letters Concerning the English NationL. Davis and C. Reymers; R. Baldwin, and S. Crowder and Company, 1760 - 255 страници |
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... beauty of their children , the only thing remaining was , to give them the Small - pox in their infant years . This they did , by inoculating , in the body of a child , puftle taken from the most regular , and at the fame time the most ...
... beauty of their children , the only thing remaining was , to give them the Small - pox in their infant years . This they did , by inoculating , in the body of a child , puftle taken from the most regular , and at the fame time the most ...
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... beauty . UPON a general calculation , threescore perfons in every hundred have the Small- pox . Of these threefcore , twenty die of it in the most favourable feafon of life , and as many more wear the difagreeable re- mains of it in ...
... beauty . UPON a general calculation , threescore perfons in every hundred have the Small- pox . Of these threefcore , twenty die of it in the most favourable feafon of life , and as many more wear the difagreeable re- mains of it in ...
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... beauty , we likewife ought to fay geometrical and medicinal beauty ; and yet we don't say so , the reafon of which is , we know very well what is the object of geo- metry , and what is the object of phyfic ; but we do not know what that ...
... beauty , we likewife ought to fay geometrical and medicinal beauty ; and yet we don't say so , the reafon of which is , we know very well what is the object of geo- metry , and what is the object of phyfic ; but we do not know what that ...
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... beauty , merely becaufe we do not kno.v " what is the object of poetry ; and that the only rea- " fon why we do not fay medicinal beauty , and geome " trical beauty , is because the objects of geometry " and phyfic are known ? The only ...
... beauty , merely becaufe we do not kno.v " what is the object of poetry ; and that the only rea- " fon why we do not fay medicinal beauty , and geome " trical beauty , is because the objects of geometry " and phyfic are known ? The only ...
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... beauty , and geometrical beauty , " is because the objects of phyfic and geometry " do not require ornaments , and are not fufceptible " of them . But we fay poetical beauty ; and that , " not through ignorance , but because its object ...
... beauty , and geometrical beauty , " is because the objects of phyfic and geometry " do not require ornaments , and are not fufceptible " of them . But we fay poetical beauty ; and that , " not through ignorance , but because its object ...
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