The Athenian oracle; an entire collection of all the valuable questions and answers in the old Athenian mercuries, by a member of the Athenian society [J. Dunton, ed. by S. Wesley]. |
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... World which doth your Aid implore , And fair'ring Beams of Light , our golden days reftore . Learning's diviner Rays the Sun's out - vye , And pierce e Globe , and range the loftiest Skie .. In never - dying Lines your Task renew ...
... World which doth your Aid implore , And fair'ring Beams of Light , our golden days reftore . Learning's diviner Rays the Sun's out - vye , And pierce e Globe , and range the loftiest Skie .. In never - dying Lines your Task renew ...
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... world with their own Genial Fire ; So Form did Chaos , Light the Dark expel , As Athens Rome , and Rome the World excel : The Ufurping Troops , by their own Guilt fubdu'd , Fled from th approaching dawn , while none purfu'd . The ...
... world with their own Genial Fire ; So Form did Chaos , Light the Dark expel , As Athens Rome , and Rome the World excel : The Ufurping Troops , by their own Guilt fubdu'd , Fled from th approaching dawn , while none purfu'd . The ...
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... World , By that great Fiat ( greater much by far Than the ftrait Bounds of anciens Maxims were , Which faid , From Nothing , Nothing can appear . Methinks in that great Work , that mighty Change , If the Immaterial Beings range , And ...
... World , By that great Fiat ( greater much by far Than the ftrait Bounds of anciens Maxims were , Which faid , From Nothing , Nothing can appear . Methinks in that great Work , that mighty Change , If the Immaterial Beings range , And ...
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... World goes , we think you happier in a Wife than you are aware of , forter Life fhew the Evidence of your how much think you wou'd you mend your Choice , by taking one that has been a Whore ( by your own Confeffion ) and either is ...
... World goes , we think you happier in a Wife than you are aware of , forter Life fhew the Evidence of your how much think you wou'd you mend your Choice , by taking one that has been a Whore ( by your own Confeffion ) and either is ...
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... World , there being no two Perfons whofe Senti ments in every thing agree ex actly with each other . We there . fore rather choose to fix it in a likeness of Sentiments , and per- fect agreement of Wills , which a- greement indeed may ...
... World , there being no two Perfons whofe Senti ments in every thing agree ex actly with each other . We there . fore rather choose to fix it in a likeness of Sentiments , and per- fect agreement of Wills , which a- greement indeed may ...
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Page 447 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 505 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 126 - Feajl, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of Malice and wickednefs, but with the unleavened Bread 'of Sincerity and Truth.
Page 253 - Moun' tains and Rocks, Fall on me, ' and hide me from the Face of
Page 347 - em conceited, and full of themfelves, 'tis a Weaknefs common to our own Sex as well as theirs: There's few Men who have Wit, Senfe, or Learning, but they kriow it; tho' often they are fo prudent to conceal fuch their Knowledge from the World. On the whole, fince they have as noble Souls as we, a finer Genius, and generally quicker Apprehenfions, we lee no reafon why Women fliould not be learned now, as well as Madam Philips, j Van Schxrman, and others, have formerly been...
Page 418 - Anotomie of Sorcerie, 1612, 90. Compare Dr. Furnivall's Political, Religious, and Love Poems, 1866, p. 33, and Love Charms, infra. Charms.— A charm has been defined to be "a form of word or letters, repeated or written, whereby strange things are pretended to be done, beyond the ordinary power of Nature.
Page 1 - But becaufe one might be ready to reply to this Experiment, that the Reafon why when bound it did not beat, was, becaufe the Current of the Blood being ftraitned by the Pipe, when beneath the Pipe it came to have more Liberty, was not fufficient to ftretch the Coat of. the Artery, and fo caufe a Pulfe...
Page 202 - And whereon can that be grounded , or how afcertain'd, without fome Principles to which a laft Appeal may be made ? Particularly that we have mention'd, That a thing can be, and not be, at the fame time ; which if not granted, overthrows all Science as well as Reafon : Again, What Traffick or Commerce cou'd there be in the World, what dealings between Man and Man, without that moral Principle, Do...
Page 536 - ... or promife, made by any other, without my knowledge or confent. So help me God through Jefus Chrift.