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Pagina xiii
... never die , at leaft not by the death which the other predicts : let thofe who are qualified judge between them . Some good obfervations were to be found in a tract , en- titled A Warning Voice to the People of England , on the two ...
... never die , at leaft not by the death which the other predicts : let thofe who are qualified judge between them . Some good obfervations were to be found in a tract , en- titled A Warning Voice to the People of England , on the two ...
Pagina 7
... never read the above - mentioned pallage , in the original Perfian , without recollecting the beautiful beginning of that fine Hebrew pfalm or elegy , compofed in a funilar forlorn fituation , and expreffive of the fame feelings ...
... never read the above - mentioned pallage , in the original Perfian , without recollecting the beautiful beginning of that fine Hebrew pfalm or elegy , compofed in a funilar forlorn fituation , and expreffive of the fame feelings ...
Pagina 16
... never could have invented an art of any value , much lefs an art of language , fuch as the Sanferit or Greek ; for the invention of which not only a regular polity was neceffary , but I think it was further neceffary , that a clafs or ...
... never could have invented an art of any value , much lefs an art of language , fuch as the Sanferit or Greek ; for the invention of which not only a regular polity was neceffary , but I think it was further neceffary , that a clafs or ...
Pagina 25
... never have collected fuch a mafs of in-- formation , and juft obfervations of human life , as his very valuable work contains , without great ftrength of mind , and much various knowledge ; knowledge ; as he never could have difplayed ...
... never have collected fuch a mafs of in-- formation , and juft obfervations of human life , as his very valuable work contains , without great ftrength of mind , and much various knowledge ; knowledge ; as he never could have difplayed ...
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... never yet been attempted . II . On the Nature and Conftruction of the Sun and fixed Stars . By William Herfchel , L. L. D. F. R. S. Read , December 18 , 1794. P. 46—72 . Every lover of rational inquiry will doubtlefs confider the ...
... never yet been attempted . II . On the Nature and Conftruction of the Sun and fixed Stars . By William Herfchel , L. L. D. F. R. S. Read , December 18 , 1794. P. 46—72 . Every lover of rational inquiry will doubtlefs confider the ...
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