Letters Concerning the English NationL. Davis and C. Reymers; R. Baldwin, and S. Crowder and Company, 1760 - 255 sider |
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Side 85
... affert any thing ? THE fuperftitious man comes afterwards , and declares , that all those must be burnt for the good of their Souls , who so much as fufpect that it is poffible for the body to think without any foreign affiftance . But ...
... affert any thing ? THE fuperftitious man comes afterwards , and declares , that all those must be burnt for the good of their Souls , who so much as fufpect that it is poffible for the body to think without any foreign affiftance . But ...
Side 96
... affert that Des Cartes was not a great geometrician . Those who make fuch a declaration may juftly be reproach- ed with flying in their mafter's face . Des Cartes extended the limits of geometry as far beyond the place where he found ...
... affert that Des Cartes was not a great geometrician . Those who make fuch a declaration may juftly be reproach- ed with flying in their mafter's face . Des Cartes extended the limits of geometry as far beyond the place where he found ...
Side 115
... affert , that this matter spreading itself through the whole , waits only to be projected forward by the fun , in order to be put in action , in like manner as a long staff acts at one end when pufh'd forward by the other ; that light ...
... affert , that this matter spreading itself through the whole , waits only to be projected forward by the fun , in order to be put in action , in like manner as a long staff acts at one end when pufh'd forward by the other ; that light ...
Side 195
... affert- ed that the city of Hamburgh was guilty ; but he ought to have made a distinction between the opinion of one part of the north , which I gave as a vague , random report , and the affirmation with which he charges me . Had I ...
... affert- ed that the city of Hamburgh was guilty ; but he ought to have made a distinction between the opinion of one part of the north , which I gave as a vague , random report , and the affirmation with which he charges me . Had I ...
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... affert , that the dog who bites and fawns is double ; that the hen who , for fome time , takes care of her chicken , and afterwards abandons them , is double ; that the mirrour , which reprefents different objects , is double ; and that ...
... affert , that the dog who bites and fawns is double ; that the hen who , for fome time , takes care of her chicken , and afterwards abandons them , is double ; that the mirrour , which reprefents different objects , is double ; and that ...
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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.