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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... leave her , and marry ano- ther ? Q.4.Whether according to the Law of Confcience ( matters of Divorce being jo tedious and chargeable ( not to fay worse ) that I am not able to proceed in the dilatory way of Drs . Commons ) I may not ...
... leave her , and marry ano- ther ? Q.4.Whether according to the Law of Confcience ( matters of Divorce being jo tedious and chargeable ( not to fay worse ) that I am not able to proceed in the dilatory way of Drs . Commons ) I may not ...
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... leave to lend you my thoughts about fome particulars in your Anfwer to that Noble Question ; And firft , You fay , the Quickfilver be- ing once in the lube , and of a very clofe Body , it keeps the Air from getting betwixt it and the ...
... leave to lend you my thoughts about fome particulars in your Anfwer to that Noble Question ; And firft , You fay , the Quickfilver be- ing once in the lube , and of a very clofe Body , it keeps the Air from getting betwixt it and the ...
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... leave others to reject or em . low and then Red , and Madder brace onr Thoughts according as much the fame and fo inLight they like ' em , not having our Colour'd Hair . This rellow or felves the Advantage of very Gold - Colour feems ...
... leave others to reject or em . low and then Red , and Madder brace onr Thoughts according as much the fame and fo inLight they like ' em , not having our Colour'd Hair . This rellow or felves the Advantage of very Gold - Colour feems ...
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... leave it freely to your Dif- Honour ; whereas they fav a Per- pofal to do what you please with it , and fon may really Love , tho ' he does am with the greatest Respect , not love Vertuously ; for which rea Your Unknown Friend and Sons ...
... leave it freely to your Dif- Honour ; whereas they fav a Per- pofal to do what you please with it , and fon may really Love , tho ' he does am with the greatest Respect , not love Vertuously ; for which rea Your Unknown Friend and Sons ...
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... leave too : Nor can they get clear of any unprejudic'd Person to judge , what we offer'd , viz . that our ho- whether of the two gives a more neft English Language has a worse proper Defcription or Idea of that Name for❜t , and calls ...
... leave too : Nor can they get clear of any unprejudic'd Person to judge , what we offer'd , viz . that our ho- whether of the two gives a more neft English Language has a worse proper Defcription or Idea of that Name for❜t , and calls ...
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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.
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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.