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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... whofe welcome Birth Sauspicious Phoebus cheer'd the drooping Earth , By whom once more old Learned Athens lives , Our great Metropolis new Fame receives , And a more gentle Air our Northerm Climes revives , Go on , defcend to Natures ...
... whofe welcome Birth Sauspicious Phoebus cheer'd the drooping Earth , By whom once more old Learned Athens lives , Our great Metropolis new Fame receives , And a more gentle Air our Northerm Climes revives , Go on , defcend to Natures ...
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... 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 partly profair a Name ; our Language ...
... 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 partly profair a Name ; our Language ...
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... whofe Ray wou'd fo fain have you his , - having no beat , or none that's fpeak out fenfible , can never diffipate , tho hope there's no great need to Ad - they may penetrate the Vapour . vife you against him- -Look but underneath . The ...
... whofe Ray wou'd fo fain have you his , - having no beat , or none that's fpeak out fenfible , can never diffipate , tho hope there's no great need to Ad - they may penetrate the Vapour . vife you against him- -Look but underneath . The ...
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... whofe Abdo men as foon as I had laid open , I was furpriz'd to find the Cyftis fel- lea fo much larger than is used in fuch Animals , and fo deeply co . Everal Months are now lour'd , for it equall'd in bigness paft fince I gave you the ...
... whofe Abdo men as foon as I had laid open , I was furpriz'd to find the Cyftis fel- lea fo much larger than is used in fuch Animals , and fo deeply co . Everal Months are now lour'd , for it equall'd in bigness paft fince I gave you the ...
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... whofe Pores being twifted the fame way with thofe out of which it just came before , and having the aforesaid Down incli- ned the fame way , do freely admit thefe fubtile Particles , which by their Motion expelling all the in- terjacent ...
... whofe Pores being twifted the fame way with thofe out of which it just came before , and having the aforesaid Down incli- ned the fame way , do freely admit thefe fubtile Particles , which by their Motion expelling all the in- terjacent ...
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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...
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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.