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... effects or agency to them as to pofitive powers . No man fcruples to fay that darkness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has killed the plants . Death is alfo privation ; yet who has made any difficulty of affigning to Death a ...
... effects or agency to them as to pofitive powers . No man fcruples to fay that darkness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has killed the plants . Death is alfo privation ; yet who has made any difficulty 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 Sycorax ; 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 Sycorax ; and a woman , who , in the original play , had never seen a man , is in this brought ...
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... effect of wind only , to come before the caufe is a little prepofterous : fo that if " he takes it one way , or if he takes it the " other , those two ifs will fcarcely make one " poffibility . " Enough of Settle . Marriage à la Mode ...
... effect of wind only , to come before the caufe is a little prepofterous : fo that if " he takes it one way , or if he takes it the " other , those two ifs will fcarcely make one " poffibility . " Enough of Settle . Marriage à la Mode ...
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... effect ; for neither of the books , I believe , was ever popular . The verfion of Xavier's Life is commended by Brown , in a pamphlet not written to flatter ; and the occafion of it is faid to have been , that the Queen , when the ...
... effect ; for neither of the books , I believe , was ever popular . The verfion of Xavier's Life is commended by Brown , in a pamphlet not written to flatter ; and the occafion of it is faid to have been , that the Queen , when the ...
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... abject adulation ; but they were probably , like his merriment , artificial and conftrained ; the effects of study and meditation , and his trade rather than his pleasure . Of 1 Of the mind that can trade in corruption , 94 DRYDEN .
... abject adulation ; but they were probably , like his merriment , artificial and conftrained ; the effects of study and meditation , and his trade rather than his pleasure . Of 1 Of the mind that can trade in corruption , 94 DRYDEN .
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