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... give an intelligible account of them that would not be tedious from its length . It will be enough to say , that a scarcely more oppressive mass of mischievous error was cleared away from the science of astronomy by the discovery of ...
... give an intelligible account of them that would not be tedious from its length . It will be enough to say , that a scarcely more oppressive mass of mischievous error was cleared away from the science of astronomy by the discovery of ...
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... give a spirited rebuke to the unworthy reception he had met with , in which it seems that Riolanus had now perinitted himself to join ; adducing several new and conclusive experi- ments in support of his theory ; and entering at large ...
... give a spirited rebuke to the unworthy reception he had met with , in which it seems that Riolanus had now perinitted himself to join ; adducing several new and conclusive experi- ments in support of his theory ; and entering at large ...
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... gives it , he informs us , " only as the report of the place ; " he seems to think it extremely improbable , if not entirely incredible , that Oliver , even at this age , should have " so little regarded dignity ; " as if respect for ...
... gives it , he informs us , " only as the report of the place ; " he seems to think it extremely improbable , if not entirely incredible , that Oliver , even at this age , should have " so little regarded dignity ; " as if respect for ...
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... give way to him ; he spent his time chiefly in the public - houses , where , however , he usually neglected to pay his reckoning , so that the innkeepers , it seems , when they saw him coming , would say , " Here comes young Cromwell ...
... give way to him ; he spent his time chiefly in the public - houses , where , however , he usually neglected to pay his reckoning , so that the innkeepers , it seems , when they saw him coming , would say , " Here comes young Cromwell ...
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... gives from the original in the British Museum , although such original is no longer to be found in that repository . It is addressed " To my very loving friend Mr. Storie , at the sign of the Dog , in the Royal Exchange , Lon- don ...
... gives from the original in the British Museum , although such original is no longer to be found in that repository . It is addressed " To my very loving friend Mr. Storie , at the sign of the Dog , in the Royal Exchange , Lon- don ...
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Page 17 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Page 40 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Page 71 - Nature, the art whereby God hath made and governs the world, is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal.
Page 39 - Truly England and the Church of God hath had a great favour from the Lord, in this great victory given unto us, such as the like never was since this war began. It had all the evidences of an absolute victory obtained by the Lord's blessing upon the Godly Party principally.
Page 136 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.
Page 46 - And sends the fowls to us in care On daily visits through the air. He hangs in shades the orange bright Like...
Page 73 - A PISGAH SIGHT OF PALESTINE, AND THE CONFINES THEREOF; WITH THE HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT ACTED THEREON.
Page 38 - The Naked Truth ; or the true state of the Primitive Church. By an humble Moderator.
Page 34 - I did so, and the result was — impute it to what you please — I raised such men as had the fear of God before them, as made some conscience of what they did ; and from that day forward, I must say to you, they were never beaten, and wherever they were engaged against the enemy, they beat continually.
Page 88 - Leviathan," which is now mightily called for; and what was heretofore sold for 8s. I now give 24s. for, at the second hand, and is sold for 30s., it being a book the Bishops will not let be printed again.