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... Courses of the Planets ; according to the Newtonian Hypo- thefis , intimated by a Book bearing that great Author's Name , -The whole Tenour of the Lecture , in Concert with the whole Structure and Economy of the Skies , ENARRANT GLORIAM ...
... Courses of the Planets ; according to the Newtonian Hypo- thefis , intimated by a Book bearing that great Author's Name , -The whole Tenour of the Lecture , in Concert with the whole Structure and Economy of the Skies , ENARRANT GLORIAM ...
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... Course of Sobriety ; to guard them against the Allurements of Vice , and animate them with the Principles of Piety . A noble Kind of Hofpitality this ! Which will probably tranfmit its beneficial Influence , to their earthly Poffeffions ...
... Course of Sobriety ; to guard them against the Allurements of Vice , and animate them with the Principles of Piety . A noble Kind of Hofpitality this ! Which will probably tranfmit its beneficial Influence , to their earthly Poffeffions ...
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... Course . Though we are listless and dilatory ; the great Measurer of our Days preffes on ; ftill preffes on , in his unwearied Career * ; and whirls our Weeks , and Months , and Years away . - Is it not then fur- prisingly strange , to ...
... Course . Though we are listless and dilatory ; the great Measurer of our Days preffes on ; ftill preffes on , in his unwearied Career * ; and whirls our Weeks , and Months , and Years away . - Is it not then fur- prisingly strange , to ...
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... Course ! May every fordid Defire wear away , and every irregular Appetite be gradually loft ; as I make nearer Approaches , to the celeftial Manfions ! -Will not this be a comfortable Evidence , that I too fhall shine , in my adored ...
... Course ! May every fordid Defire wear away , and every irregular Appetite be gradually loft ; as I make nearer Approaches , to the celeftial Manfions ! -Will not this be a comfortable Evidence , that I too fhall shine , in my adored ...
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... ; the Moon , at her Full , by a Course of unintermitted Waiting , gives us , as it were , a double Day , - How apparently has the Divine Wisdom in- terested terested itself , in providing even for the plea- furable 90 CONTEMPLATIONS.
... ; the Moon , at her Full , by a Course of unintermitted Waiting , gives us , as it were , a double Day , - How apparently has the Divine Wisdom in- terested terested itself , in providing even for the plea- furable 90 CONTEMPLATIONS.
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