The British Apollo: Containing Two Thousand Answers to Curious Questions in Most Arts and Sciences, Serious, Comical, and Humorous, Approved of by Many of the Most Learned and Ingenious of Both Universities, and of the Royal-Society, Volume 1T. Sanders, 1726 - 336 pages |
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... affected with pain . Q. What is the reafon , that looking down from any bigh place , a man's head turns , and he is ready to fall ? A. Because the diftance of objects and the mighty sense of danger so extreamly terrifies the imagination ...
... affected with pain . Q. What is the reafon , that looking down from any bigh place , a man's head turns , and he is ready to fall ? A. Because the diftance of objects and the mighty sense of danger so extreamly terrifies the imagination ...
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... affected much Satyr in her converfation . Rithee , mistaken maid , forbear thy jest , No húsband in a witey wife is blett ; And thou , who wouldft thy merits thus proclaim , To raise thy character , ' fhalt damn thy fáme , And mourn for ...
... affected much Satyr in her converfation . Rithee , mistaken maid , forbear thy jest , No húsband in a witey wife is blett ; And thou , who wouldft thy merits thus proclaim , To raise thy character , ' fhalt damn thy fáme , And mourn for ...
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... affected with such a vehement calidity , when water is pour'd thereon ? 4. Lime is made of ordinary quarry - stones , by violent calcination in a close kiln or furnace for many days ; and ' tis probable that in such an operation fope ...
... affected with such a vehement calidity , when water is pour'd thereon ? 4. Lime is made of ordinary quarry - stones , by violent calcination in a close kiln or furnace for many days ; and ' tis probable that in such an operation fope ...
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... affected with them ; or to the method of reforming those who are guilty of them . With respect to the former , we give the preference to Heraclitus . Wickedness is of too serious a concern to be the object of our laughter ; and ...
... affected with them ; or to the method of reforming those who are guilty of them . With respect to the former , we give the preference to Heraclitus . Wickedness is of too serious a concern to be the object of our laughter ; and ...
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... affected , so the same cause may produce different effects in the very same person at different times . Q. Whether covetoufness or prodigality . be the greater in ? A. The former lays claim to the greater share in the heinousaess of ...
... affected , so the same cause may produce different effects in the very same person at different times . Q. Whether covetoufness or prodigality . be the greater in ? A. The former lays claim to the greater share in the heinousaess of ...
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Page 101 - So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
Page 328 - Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, and honour, and power ; for thou haft created all things, and for thy pleafure they are, and were created.
Page 58 - And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. 13 And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.
Page 105 - The Spirit of the LORD GOD is upon Me, becaufe the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek : He hath fent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prifon to them that are bound...
Page 210 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
Page iii - Containing Two Thousand Answers to Curious Questions In Most Arts and Sciences, Serious, Comical, and Humorous: Approved of by many of the most Learned and Ingenious of both Universities, and of the Royal Society. Perform'd by a Society of Gentlemen.
Page 249 - Hereby perceive we the love of God, becaufe he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Page 106 - It may not improperly be derived from a memorable transaction happening between the Romans and Sabines, mentioned by Dionysius, which was thus : the Romans, about the infancy of the city, wanting wives, and finding they could not obtain the neighbouring women by their peaceable addresses, resolved to make use of a stratagem ; and, accordingly, Romulus...
Page 234 - However, to their eternal honor be it spoken, they have often been known to encounter a sort of cannibals, to whose assaults they are often subject, not fictitious, but real man-eaters, and that with a lance but two inches long; nay, and although they go armed no further than their middle finger.
Page 234 - ... carried in the other hand, all which they bore with a philosophical resignation. Thus, eight not being able to deal with one woman, by consequence could not make a man, on which account a ninth is added.