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... answer to their signs . It will be convenient , also , as you go along , after some convenient progress made , to express , in as plain language as may be , the import of some of the tables ; as , for instance , The head is the highest ...
... answer to their signs . It will be convenient , also , as you go along , after some convenient progress made , to express , in as plain language as may be , the import of some of the tables ; as , for instance , The head is the highest ...
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... answered , No. It replied , I am such a one . The man answered , he had been long dead . " I have been dead , " said ... answer ; but after a long and perplexed pause , did at last say , " I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you ...
... answered , No. It replied , I am such a one . The man answered , he had been long dead . " I have been dead , " said ... answer ; but after a long and perplexed pause , did at last say , " I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you ...
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... answer . In Luther's Colloquia Mensalia , ' & c . , set forth in Latin at Frankfort , anno 1557 , it being a dif- ferent collection from that of Aurifaber , which is translated from High Dutch into English , we have the following ...
... answer . In Luther's Colloquia Mensalia , ' & c . , set forth in Latin at Frankfort , anno 1557 , it being a dif- ferent collection from that of Aurifaber , which is translated from High Dutch into English , we have the following ...
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... answer . || of a demon or genius , than for a demon or genius to accommodate himself to the knowledge of a man ? Certain it is , indeed , that if this good genius ( that induces a man with a prophetic kind of science ) be anything ...
... answer . || of a demon or genius , than for a demon or genius to accommodate himself to the knowledge of a man ? Certain it is , indeed , that if this good genius ( that induces a man with a prophetic kind of science ) be anything ...
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... answers . " Since you will not believe me on my word , " said Tasso to him another day , after having well disputed ... answer to what many learned friends have said to myself on the like occasion . " Perhaps it may not be ungrateful to ...
... answers . " Since you will not believe me on my word , " said Tasso to him another day , after having well disputed ... answer to what many learned friends have said to myself on the like occasion . " Perhaps it may not be ungrateful to ...
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Page 63 - ... of enjoyments ; that peace and plenty were the handmaids of a middle fortune; that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life...
Page 12 - I began to apply myself to make such necessary things as I found I most wanted, particularly a chair and a table ; for without these I was not able to enjoy the few comforts I had in the world...
Page 9 - I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in him will I trust Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence...
Page 37 - It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand.
Page 10 - That he found and left Mrs. Donne very sad and sick in her bed ; and that, after a long and dangerous labour, she had been delivered of a dead child. And, upon examination, the abortion proved to be the same day and about the very hour that Mr. Donne affirmed he saw her pass by him in his chamber.
Page 54 - Master, and then let him know that was to be my name. I likewise taught him to say Yes and No, and to know the meaning of them.
Page 10 - This is a relation that will beget some wonder; and it well may, for most of our world are at present possessed with an opinion that visions and miracles are ceased. And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and tuned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the other, that is not touched, being laid upon a table at a fit distance, will (like an echo to a trumpet) warble a faint audible harmony in answer to the same tune; yet many will not believe there is any such thing...
Page 47 - So that if any one will examine himself concerning his notion of pure substance in general, he will find he has no other idea of it at all, but only a supposition of he knows not what support of such qualities which are capable of producing simple ideas in us; which qualities are commonly called accidents.
Page 65 - Secondly, my people were perfectly subjected. I was absolute lord and lawgiver; they all owed their lives to me, and were ready to lay down their lives, if there had been occasion for it, for me.
Page 37 - I could hear nothing, nor see anything. I went up to a rising ground to look farther. I went up the shore and down the shore, but it was all one, I could see no other impression but that one.