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... effects or agency to them as tò pofitive powers . No man fcruples to say that darkness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has killed the plants . Death is alfo privation , yet who has made any diffi- culty of affigning to Death a ...
... effects or agency to them as tò pofitive powers . No man fcruples to say that darkness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has killed the plants . Death is alfo privation , yet who has made any diffi- culty of affigning to Death a ...
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... effect produced by the conjunction of these two powerful minds was , that to Shakspeare's monster Caliban is added a fifter - monster . Sicorax ; and a woman , who , in the original play , had never seen a man , is in this brought ...
... effect produced by the conjunction of these two powerful minds was , that to Shakspeare's monster Caliban is added a fifter - monster . Sicorax ; and a woman , who , in the original play , had never seen a man , is in this brought ...
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... effect ; for neither of the books , I believe , was ever popular . The verfion of Xavier's Life is commend- ed by Brown , in a pamphlet not written to flatter ; and the occafion of it is faid to have been , that the Queen , when she ...
... effect ; for neither of the books , I believe , was ever popular . The verfion of Xavier's Life is commend- ed by Brown , in a pamphlet not written to flatter ; and the occafion of it is faid to have been , that the Queen , when she ...
Page 88
... effects of study and meditation , and his trade rather than his pleasure , Of the mind that can trade in corruption , and can deliberately pollute itself with ideal wickedness for the fake of fpreading the contagion in fociety , I wish ...
... effects of study and meditation , and his trade rather than his pleasure , Of the mind that can trade in corruption , and can deliberately pollute itself with ideal wickedness for the fake of fpreading the contagion in fociety , I wish ...
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... effect of levity , negligence , and loofe converfation , with a defire of accom- modating himself to the corruption of the times , by venturing to be wicked as far as he durft . When he professed himself a con- vert to Popery , he did ...
... effect of levity , negligence , and loofe converfation , with a defire of accom- modating himself to the corruption of the times , by venturing to be wicked as far as he durft . When he professed himself a con- vert to Popery , he did ...
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