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... Places inferted in the faid Tide- Tables . The Table of the Moon's Age is easily under- food ; for find the Month defired ... Place defired in the Head of the Said Tables , with the Age of the Moon , in the firft Column towards the Left ...
... Places inferted in the faid Tide- Tables . The Table of the Moon's Age is easily under- food ; for find the Month defired ... Place defired in the Head of the Said Tables , with the Age of the Moon , in the firft Column towards the Left ...
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... Places of the fortunate Planets . 9 50 65. The greatest Antipathy is by the 56 Infortunes in one , poffeffing the Places of morn . the Luminaries in the other ; and the Lu- O 6 minaries in the Place of the Infortunes . 8 66. in one ...
... Places of the fortunate Planets . 9 50 65. The greatest Antipathy is by the 56 Infortunes in one , poffeffing the Places of morn . the Luminaries in the other ; and the Lu- O 6 minaries in the Place of the Infortunes . 8 66. in one ...
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... place in the orb ; but when the motion is fo unequal , the arches PC , CD , DA , must needs be fo too , though ... places and motions of all the Planets : Now , fuppofe the angular motion of the Earth be fo much greater than that of ...
... place in the orb ; but when the motion is fo unequal , the arches PC , CD , DA , must needs be fo too , though ... places and motions of all the Planets : Now , fuppofe the angular motion of the Earth be fo much greater than that of ...
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... Place and Distance of every Village will be truly afcertained , and expreffed . All the great Roads , and Turn ... Places noted for Curiofities in Nature , as Minerals , & c . or for Antiquities , or any remarkable Oc- currences , will ...
... Place and Distance of every Village will be truly afcertained , and expreffed . All the great Roads , and Turn ... Places noted for Curiofities in Nature , as Minerals , & c . or for Antiquities , or any remarkable Oc- currences , will ...
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... Place in your excellent up any Thing relative genious Correfpondents Meffieurs Bamfield and Wildbore ; yet , have fet myself down for that Purpose , in the Midft of a Multiplicity of En- gagements , which compel me to ufe more Brevity ...
... Place in your excellent up any Thing relative genious Correfpondents Meffieurs Bamfield and Wildbore ; yet , have fet myself down for that Purpose , in the Midft of a Multiplicity of En- gagements , which compel me to ufe more Brevity ...
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Page 5 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 5 - Imprints a different bias, and to each Decrees its province in the common toil. To some she taught the fabric of the sphere, The changeful moon, the circuit of the stars, The golden zones of...
Page 13 - ... prodigies and predictions. For as it is the chief concern of wise men to retrench the evils of life by the reasonings of philosophy, it is the employment of fools to multiply them by the sentiments of superstition.
Page 5 - The golden zones of heaven; to some she gave To weigh the moment of eternal things, Of time, and space, and fate's unbroken chain, And will's quick impulse; others by the hand She led o'er vales and mountains, to explore What healing virtue swells the tender veins Of herbs and flowers...
Page 17 - Henry I, Stephen, Henry II, Richard I, John, Henry III, Ed-ward I, Edward II, Edward III, Richard II, Henry IV...
Page 13 - Sibyls, that fore- bodes and prophefies from one end of the year to the other. She is always feeing apparitions and hearing death-watches ; and was the other day almoft frighted out of her wits by the great houfe-dog, that howled ia the liable at a time when me lay ill of the tooth-ach.
Page 14 - Though I know neither the time nor the manner of the death I am to die, I am not at all solicitous about it; because I am sure that he knows them both, and that he will not fail to comfort and support me under them.