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Page 60
... carry their measure into places that are only accessible to the eye . From hence also is deduced that admirable art of drawing sun - dials on any plane , howsoever si- tuate , and for any part of the world ; to point out the exact time ...
... carry their measure into places that are only accessible to the eye . From hence also is deduced that admirable art of drawing sun - dials on any plane , howsoever si- tuate , and for any part of the world ; to point out the exact time ...
Page 66
... carried on trade without books , and correspondence without posts : their merchants kept no accounts , their shopkeepers no cash - books : they had surgery without anatomy , and physicians without the materia medica : they gave emetics ...
... carried on trade without books , and correspondence without posts : their merchants kept no accounts , their shopkeepers no cash - books : they had surgery without anatomy , and physicians without the materia medica : they gave emetics ...
Page 71
... carried on his moral reflections with so just and severe a force of reason , as con- strained him to change his whole course of life , to break off his follies at once , and to apply himself to gain some useful knowledge , when he was ...
... carried on his moral reflections with so just and severe a force of reason , as con- strained him to change his whole course of life , to break off his follies at once , and to apply himself to gain some useful knowledge , when he was ...
Page 99
... it , when I see pride mortified , and misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high . I long much to see again my native place ; and once hoped to lay my bones there . I left MORAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL . * 99.
... it , when I see pride mortified , and misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high . I long much to see again my native place ; and once hoped to lay my bones there . I left MORAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL . * 99.
Page 115
... carried off ; but , in a close room , we receive them again and again , though they become more and more corrupt . A number of persons crowded into a small room thus spoil the air in a few mi- nutes , and even render it mortal , as in ...
... carried off ; but , in a close room , we receive them again and again , though they become more and more corrupt . A number of persons crowded into a small room thus spoil the air in a few mi- nutes , and even render it mortal , as in ...
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