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... means a fufficient reafon for receiving any doctrine as true , that it has been generally received through the world . Error , like an epidemical difeafe , is communicated from one fo another . In certain circumftances , too , the ...
... means a fufficient reafon for receiving any doctrine as true , that it has been generally received through the world . Error , like an epidemical difeafe , is communicated from one fo another . In certain circumftances , too , the ...
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... means of preventing ac- cidents from damps of all kinds . The choke damp fuffocates the miners fuddenly , with all the appearances found in thote that are fuffocated by fixed air . Being heavy , it dofounds towards the lowest parts of ...
... means of preventing ac- cidents from damps of all kinds . The choke damp fuffocates the miners fuddenly , with all the appearances found in thote that are fuffocated by fixed air . Being heavy , it dofounds towards the lowest parts of ...
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... means of which action , its component parts my he changed or deparated . While this procefs is going on , there is generally , if not always , an ablapton of ait , accompanied indeed frequently with an emifion of fome aerial fluid equal ...
... means of which action , its component parts my he changed or deparated . While this procefs is going on , there is generally , if not always , an ablapton of ait , accompanied indeed frequently with an emifion of fome aerial fluid equal ...
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... means of mufic and dancing , but by being taught that it was their chief honour to fight for the republic . - It ... mean an abfolute paufe or yet , but only a more How or grave movement . Plutarch is perfuzded , that in this dance there ...
... means of mufic and dancing , but by being taught that it was their chief honour to fight for the republic . - It ... mean an abfolute paufe or yet , but only a more How or grave movement . Plutarch is perfuzded , that in this dance there ...
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... means of a looking glais , or by keeping a bird of prey hovering aloft , which keeps them in amaze till caught ; to amaze .-- Shrimps are dipped up in fhallow water with little round nets , not much unlike that which is used for daring ...
... means of a looking glais , or by keeping a bird of prey hovering aloft , which keeps them in amaze till caught ; to amaze .-- Shrimps are dipped up in fhallow water with little round nets , not much unlike that which is used for daring ...
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Page 229 - Wrapt in a pleasing fit of melancholy, To meditate my rural minstrelsy, Till Fancy had her fill. But ere a close The wonted roar was up amidst the woods...
Page 50 - Come, thick night! And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell. That my keen knife see not the wound it makes ; Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry. Hold, hold!
Page 94 - And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Page 390 - And divide the prey into two parts ; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation : 28 And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle...
Page 382 - So often fills his arms ; so often draws His lonely footsteps at the silent hour, To pay the mournful tribute of his tears * Oh ! he will tell thee, that the wealth of worlds Should ne'er seduce his bosom to forego That sacred hour...
Page 192 - Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice...
Page 113 - DEFORMED persons are commonly even with nature ; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature; being for the most part, as the Scripture saith, void of natural affection: and so they have their revenge of nature.
Page 13 - Reduce the glittering trappings of thy wife To humble weeds, fit for thy little state : Then to some suburb cottage both retire ; Drudge to feed loathsome life ; get brats and starve. — Home, home, I say ! Exit, B.
Page 47 - Within this defence they creeled their fort, planting upon it fifty pieces of cannon. On the other fide of the harbour, there was a mountain a mile high, on which they placed a...
Page 47 - To this place, it was obferved, that the Highlanders often repaired, to enjoy a cool air, and to talk of their friends they had left behind in their hills, friends whofe minds were as high as their mountains.