Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons; and Intended as a Sequel to the Literary Anecdotes, Volume 4author, 1822 - Authors, English |
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... pray insert in your Eloge ; and shall only add , that the relations who inherit his personal estate have agreed to lay out five hundred pounds in a monument , and the Dean and Chapter of Westminster have permitted a tomb to be erected ...
... pray insert in your Eloge ; and shall only add , that the relations who inherit his personal estate have agreed to lay out five hundred pounds in a monument , and the Dean and Chapter of Westminster have permitted a tomb to be erected ...
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... Pray enquire what you can of him , and whether his ingenuity be any profit to the Dutch . You may inform yourself whether the Dutch have any tricks to keep their ships from being all worm - eaten in their voyages to the Indies ; whether ...
... Pray enquire what you can of him , and whether his ingenuity be any profit to the Dutch . You may inform yourself whether the Dutch have any tricks to keep their ships from being all worm - eaten in their voyages to the Indies ; whether ...
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... pray present my service to him , and let him know , that I know not how far Mr. Gregory has improved the method of Infinite Series ; yet so far as I know any thing of it , I account it of no great advantage for resolving affected ...
... pray present my service to him , and let him know , that I know not how far Mr. Gregory has improved the method of Infinite Series ; yet so far as I know any thing of it , I account it of no great advantage for resolving affected ...
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... pray you there- fore either send your Catalogue to me by this bearer , and I will promise to returne it safe back some time this day ; or send any one hither with it in this afternoone , betwixt foure of the clock and eight , and I will ...
... pray you there- fore either send your Catalogue to me by this bearer , and I will promise to returne it safe back some time this day ; or send any one hither with it in this afternoone , betwixt foure of the clock and eight , and I will ...
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... pray your vigilance not to suffer any imposition by any whose gain may lead them to it . " There was last Wednesday a portable weather - glass shown the Society by one Quare , a Watchmaker . It is done in the fashion of of a pillar ...
... pray your vigilance not to suffer any imposition by any whose gain may lead them to it . " There was last Wednesday a portable weather - glass shown the Society by one Quare , a Watchmaker . It is done in the fashion of of a pillar ...
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Page 827 - ... his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts.
Page 56 - It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.
Page 61 - This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
Page 56 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 827 - Britain, at the expense of three millions, has killed one hundred and fifty Yankees this campaign, which is twenty thousand pounds a head ; and at Bunker's Hill she gained a mile of ground, half of which she lost again by our taking post on Ploughed Hill. During the same time sixty * thousand children have been born in America. From these data his mathematical head will easily calculate the time and expense necessary to kill us all, and conquer our whole territory.
Page 208 - Tis a book so full of variety of reading, that gentlemen who have lost their time, and are put to a push for invention, may furnish themselves with matter for common or scholastical discourse and writing.
Page 51 - ... an opaque body like the planets, or the planets lucid bodies like the sun, how he alone should be changed into a shining body, whilst all they continue opaque, or all they be changed into opaque ones, whilst he remains unchanged ; I do not think explicable by mere natural causes, but am forced to ascribe it to the counsel and contrivance of a voluntary Agent.
Page 16 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself, in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 51 - But how the matter should divide itself into two sorts, and that part of it which is fit to compose a shining body should fall down into one mass and make a sun and the...
Page 58 - The hypothesis of deriving the frame of the world by mechanical principles from matter evenly spread through the heavens being inconsistent with my system, I had considered it very little before your letter put me upon it...