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Page xxix
... modern author , who are born with a fecret antipathy to each other , and engage as naturally when they meet , as the elephant and rhinoceros . In a mixture of these two jarring animals confifted the first ministry of Q. Anne ; but the ...
... modern author , who are born with a fecret antipathy to each other , and engage as naturally when they meet , as the elephant and rhinoceros . In a mixture of these two jarring animals confifted the first ministry of Q. Anne ; but the ...
Page cvii
... modern good breeding would have struggled with me for the cof- " fee - pot , till fhe had made me fcald myself and her , " and made me throw the coffee in the fire , or perhaps " at her head , rather than permit me to take fo much ...
... modern good breeding would have struggled with me for the cof- " fee - pot , till fhe had made me fcald myself and her , " and made me throw the coffee in the fire , or perhaps " at her head , rather than permit me to take fo much ...
Page cxxi
... modern , but to the greatest of them , Sir Ifaac Newton . Great fouls are very difinterested in the affairs of life ; they look for fame and immortality , fcorning the mean paths of intereft and lucre : and , furely , in an age fo ...
... modern , but to the greatest of them , Sir Ifaac Newton . Great fouls are very difinterested in the affairs of life ; they look for fame and immortality , fcorning the mean paths of intereft and lucre : and , furely , in an age fo ...
Page cxxv
... modern learning : from the annotation are felected the notes figned W. Wotton ; thus Wotton appears bufied to illuftrate a work , which he laboured to condemn , and adds force to a fatire pointed against himself ; as captives were bound ...
... modern learning : from the annotation are felected the notes figned W. Wotton ; thus Wotton appears bufied to illuftrate a work , which he laboured to condemn , and adds force to a fatire pointed against himself ; as captives were bound ...
Page cxxv
... modern cuftom of employing wit up- on those topics ; of which there is a remarkable instance in the 88th page , as well as in feveral others , though per- haps once or twice expreffed in too free a manner , ex- cufable only for the ...
... modern cuftom of employing wit up- on those topics ; of which there is a remarkable instance in the 88th page , as well as in feveral others , though per- haps once or twice expreffed in too free a manner , ex- cufable only for the ...
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Page 260 - But a certain Samaritan as he journeyed came where he was, and when he saw him he had compassion on him and went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn and took care of him.
Page 259 - And by chance there came down a certain priest that way ; and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.
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Page 105 - These never examine farther than the colour, the shape, the size, and whatever other qualities dwell, or are drawn by art upon the outward of bodies ; and then comes reason officiously with tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate that they are not of the same consistence quite through.
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Page lxxxiv - Soon after he again endeavoured, with a good deal of pain, to find words; but at last, after many efforts, not being able, he fetched a deep sigh, and was afterwards silent.