Letters Concerning the English NationL. Davis and C. Reymers; R. Baldwin, and S. Crowder and Company, 1760 - 255 страници |
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... invented by uncultivated , favage men . WHAT a prodigious ufe the Greeks and Romans made afterwards of mechanicks ! Nevertheless , they believ'd that there were crystal heavens ; that the ftars were small lamps which fometimes fell into ...
... invented by uncultivated , favage men . WHAT a prodigious ufe the Greeks and Romans made afterwards of mechanicks ! Nevertheless , they believ'd that there were crystal heavens ; that the ftars were small lamps which fometimes fell into ...
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... invented new elements , he created a world ; he made man according to his own fancy ; and it is justly faid , that the man of Des Cartes is in fact that of Des Cartes only , very different from the real one . HE pufh'd his metaphyfical ...
... invented new elements , he created a world ; he made man according to his own fancy ; and it is justly faid , that the man of Des Cartes is in fact that of Des Cartes only , very different from the real one . HE pufh'd his metaphyfical ...
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... invented a telescope , which discovers objects by reflexion and not by refraction . Telescopes of this new kind are very hard to make , and their use is not eafy . But according to the English , a reflective telescope of but five feet ...
... invented a telescope , which discovers objects by reflexion and not by refraction . Telescopes of this new kind are very hard to make , and their use is not eafy . But according to the English , a reflective telescope of but five feet ...
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... invented a general me- thod to perform , on all geometrical curves , what had just before been try'd on the hy- perbola . ' Tis to this method of fubjecting every where infinity to algebraical calculations , : that the name is given of ...
... invented a general me- thod to perform , on all geometrical curves , what had just before been try'd on the hy- perbola . ' Tis to this method of fubjecting every where infinity to algebraical calculations , : that the name is given of ...
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... invented by ignorant people . We know exactly the angle which the fail of a fhip is to make with the keel , in order to its failing better ; and yet Co- lumbus difcovered America , without having the leaft idea of the property of this ...
... invented by ignorant people . We know exactly the angle which the fail of a fhip is to make with the keel , in order to its failing better ; and yet Co- lumbus difcovered America , without having the leaft idea of the property of this ...
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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.