Meditations and Contemplations: In Two Volumes. ... By James Hervey, ...John and James Rivington, 1753 |
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Page iv
... tion of the centrifugal and centripetal Forces : as by the one , the Planets are continually endeavouring to fly off ; but by the other , are perpetually drawn towards the Centre of their Motion ; SIC GRATIA DEI , Such is the Operation ...
... tion of the centrifugal and centripetal Forces : as by the one , the Planets are continually endeavouring to fly off ; but by the other , are perpetually drawn towards the Centre of their Motion ; SIC GRATIA DEI , Such is the Operation ...
Page xv
... tion , and win the Love , even of the Gay , and of the Fashionable . Which is more likely to be effected , by forming agrecable Pictures of Nature , and deriving inftructive Obfervations ; than by the laborious Method of long - deduced ...
... tion , and win the Love , even of the Gay , and of the Fashionable . Which is more likely to be effected , by forming agrecable Pictures of Nature , and deriving inftructive Obfervations ; than by the laborious Method of long - deduced ...
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... tion : -I would only , like the Herald before that illuftrious Hebrew * , proclaim at every Turn , " Bow the Knee , and adore the Almighty " Maker ; magnify his eternal Name , and " make his Praife , like all his Works , to be glorious ...
... tion : -I would only , like the Herald before that illuftrious Hebrew * , proclaim at every Turn , " Bow the Knee , and adore the Almighty " Maker ; magnify his eternal Name , and " make his Praife , like all his Works , to be glorious ...
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... tion ? Has He bequeathed Us a Dividend of his Beams , fufficient to render our Cir- cumstances easy , and our Situation agree- able ? till Sleep pours it's foft Oppreffion on the Organs of Senfe ; till Sleep fufpends all the Operations ...
... tion ? Has He bequeathed Us a Dividend of his Beams , fufficient to render our Cir- cumstances easy , and our Situation agree- able ? till Sleep pours it's foft Oppreffion on the Organs of Senfe ; till Sleep fufpends all the Operations ...
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... tion . The bufy Swarm of vain Images , and cajoling Temptations ; that befet Us , with a buzzing Importunity , amidst the Gaieties of Life ; are chafed by these thickening Shades .--- Here I may , without Disturbance , commune with my ...
... tion . The bufy Swarm of vain Images , and cajoling Temptations ; that befet Us , with a buzzing Importunity , amidst the Gaieties of Life ; are chafed by these thickening Shades .--- Here I may , without Disturbance , commune with my ...
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