The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot, Volume 2James Carlile, and sold, 1751 - 231 pages |
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Page 44
... Reader is not to expect here the pompous uncon- nected Stile of certain modern Hiftorians , who make more Court to the Ear than the Head or Heart . Humphry was a plain Man , lov'd Truth , and always produced it with as little Art and ...
... Reader is not to expect here the pompous uncon- nected Stile of certain modern Hiftorians , who make more Court to the Ear than the Head or Heart . Humphry was a plain Man , lov'd Truth , and always produced it with as little Art and ...
Page 45
... Readers all his Works Jeem to be Allegorical , though the Learned and Intelligent can easily see thro the prudent Difguife . But Should the Editor find hereafter , that any Names or Paffages in this Work puzzle the learned Reader , he ...
... Readers all his Works Jeem to be Allegorical , though the Learned and Intelligent can easily see thro the prudent Difguife . But Should the Editor find hereafter , that any Names or Paffages in this Work puzzle the learned Reader , he ...
Page 49
... Reader's Curiofity , we shall relate it fuccinctly . Hocus had been employ'd in carrying on the Law - Suit against the Baboons ; and tho ' his Bills of Coft ran exceffively high , it must be owned that he managed with great Succefs and ...
... Reader's Curiofity , we shall relate it fuccinctly . Hocus had been employ'd in carrying on the Law - Suit against the Baboons ; and tho ' his Bills of Coft ran exceffively high , it must be owned that he managed with great Succefs and ...
Page 63
... Golden Cor- dial , & c . but the Author trufts , the candid Reader will fee the Propriety of treating the Subject in this Manner . were were abfolutely neceffary , and that he muft imme diately The Hiftory of John Bull . 63.
... Golden Cor- dial , & c . but the Author trufts , the candid Reader will fee the Propriety of treating the Subject in this Manner . were were abfolutely neceffary , and that he muft imme diately The Hiftory of John Bull . 63.
Page 102
... Readers to know . I fhall only remark , in concluding this Third Part of my Work , that all the World thought that the Day of John Bull's Death , whether the Eleventh or Tenth , wou'd be a woeful Day to Bob Bronze ; but we fhall fhew in ...
... Readers to know . I fhall only remark , in concluding this Third Part of my Work , that all the World thought that the Day of John Bull's Death , whether the Eleventh or Tenth , wou'd be a woeful Day to Bob Bronze ; but we fhall fhew in ...
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Page 23 - And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth...
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Page 24 - Of moving joints obedient to my will, Nurs'd from the fruitful glebe, like yonder tree, Waxes and waftes; I call it mine, not me.
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