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Pagina i
... period , as we could in reafon expect . Should the return of quiet and fecurity , whenever Providence fhall grant those bleffings , excite proportionable efforts , we fhall indeed behold a golden Age of Science ; but this perhaps is ...
... period , as we could in reafon expect . Should the return of quiet and fecurity , whenever Providence fhall grant those bleffings , excite proportionable efforts , we fhall indeed behold a golden Age of Science ; but this perhaps is ...
Pagina v
... periods of Indian chronology , which infidels have been fo eager to oppose to the Mofaic hiftory , are merely fabulous , and a fable which may be traced to its origin and defign , cannot , we are willing to hope , even in this age , be ...
... periods of Indian chronology , which infidels have been fo eager to oppose to the Mofaic hiftory , are merely fabulous , and a fable which may be traced to its origin and defign , cannot , we are willing to hope , even in this age , be ...
Pagina vii
... period , feen any thing of fuch intereft and extent as that of Lorenzo de ' Medici , by Mr. Rofcoe of Liverpool ‡ The man , and the period in which he lived , are both calculated to excite a liberal curiofity ; and in what manner it has ...
... period , feen any thing of fuch intereft and extent as that of Lorenzo de ' Medici , by Mr. Rofcoe of Liverpool ‡ The man , and the period in which he lived , are both calculated to excite a liberal curiofity ; and in what manner it has ...
Pagina 27
... periods . " P. 85 . On the subject of his penfion , Dr. A. fpeaks with a libe rality that does him honour ; nor fhould we be inclined to differ from him , except where he afferts , that the doctrines fupported by Johnfon in his ...
... periods . " P. 85 . On the subject of his penfion , Dr. A. fpeaks with a libe rality that does him honour ; nor fhould we be inclined to differ from him , except where he afferts , that the doctrines fupported by Johnfon in his ...
Pagina 28
... period long fubfequent to the grant of his penfion , and in fupport of a mi- nifter to whom he owed no perfonal obligation . " P. 131 . Certain it is , that no penfion could be more honourably given , or more properly received ; and we ...
... period long fubfequent to the grant of his penfion , and in fupport of a mi- nifter to whom he owed no perfonal obligation . " P. 131 . Certain it is , that no penfion could be more honourably given , or more properly received ; and we ...
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