Spectacle de la Nature: Or, Nature Display'd. Being Discourses on Such Particulars of Natural History as Were Thought Most Proper to Excite the Curiosity, and Form the Minds of Youth ... Tr. from the Original French ...L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1766 - Natural history |
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... receive all the Benefit this happy Difpofition is able to produce , did we employ it upon Subjects equally qualified to engage the Mind by Pleafure , and fill it with clear and inftructive Ideas . This double Advantage is to be attain ...
... receive all the Benefit this happy Difpofition is able to produce , did we employ it upon Subjects equally qualified to engage the Mind by Pleafure , and fill it with clear and inftructive Ideas . This double Advantage is to be attain ...
Page ix
... receive from Plants , with an Attempt thro ' the whole , to mix Improve- ment with Variety . If we have not always confined our felves to a fcrupulous Regularity , it was , because we think it allowable , in conducting the Mind to Truth ...
... receive from Plants , with an Attempt thro ' the whole , to mix Improve- ment with Variety . If we have not always confined our felves to a fcrupulous Regularity , it was , because we think it allowable , in conducting the Mind to Truth ...
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... receive from illufirious Names , yet in the Event we accommodate ourselves to them the better , because our Faculties need not make any extraordinary Efforts to under- Stand and follow them . Whatever they say that appears curious and ...
... receive from illufirious Names , yet in the Event we accommodate ourselves to them the better , because our Faculties need not make any extraordinary Efforts to under- Stand and follow them . Whatever they say that appears curious and ...
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... receives its Birth from the fecond . These are so many Metamorphofes . Have you never seen those of Ovid , Šir ? Chevalier . I am now reading them , and have gone thro ' half of that Work . Thofe agreeable Fables divert me exceedingly ...
... receives its Birth from the fecond . These are so many Metamorphofes . Have you never seen those of Ovid , Šir ? Chevalier . I am now reading them , and have gone thro ' half of that Work . Thofe agreeable Fables divert me exceedingly ...
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... receive her . Countess . Gentlemen , fince your Converfation turns on Diftaffs and Thread , I have fome Privilege to be feated among you ; and I fhall now be glad to know the Subject you chufe for your Entertaiment . Count . We were ...
... receive her . Countess . Gentlemen , fince your Converfation turns on Diftaffs and Thread , I have fome Privilege to be feated among you ; and I fhall now be glad to know the Subject you chufe for your Entertaiment . Count . We were ...
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