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 2T. Sanders, 1726 |
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Page 377
... Seems not at all to understand His eager grafping of her hand ; Turns the fofteft things , the fool . Can fay , into meer ridicule ; She's no fortune , but inherits Beauty , wit , and godlike merits ; Inftruct him how to addrefs her ...
... Seems not at all to understand His eager grafping of her hand ; Turns the fofteft things , the fool . Can fay , into meer ridicule ; She's no fortune , but inherits Beauty , wit , and godlike merits ; Inftruct him how to addrefs her ...
Page 396
... seems that he al- lows of a bed of concubinage , according to the ancient cuf- tom of the Hebrews ? A Your expofition of St. Paul's meaning is very odd and fingular ; fince by any perfon who confiders feriously that Saint or his ...
... seems that he al- lows of a bed of concubinage , according to the ancient cuf- tom of the Hebrews ? A Your expofition of St. Paul's meaning is very odd and fingular ; fince by any perfon who confiders feriously that Saint or his ...
Page 408
... seem mine , Pray tell me if that's an infallible fign . If not , pray may not I reafon'bly blame her , Since ubi eft oculus , ibi eft amor ? If you'll give me an answer and keep to the text , And be fure to infert it on Wednesday next ...
... seem mine , Pray tell me if that's an infallible fign . If not , pray may not I reafon'bly blame her , Since ubi eft oculus , ibi eft amor ? If you'll give me an answer and keep to the text , And be fure to infert it on Wednesday next ...
Page 524
... seem to him as a deceiver , and I shall bring a curfe upon me , and not a blessing . For these words may refer as well to the lyar , as to the fupplanter of his brother . Q. I am fomewhat turn'd of 20 , have a clear re- putation , a ...
... seem to him as a deceiver , and I shall bring a curfe upon me , and not a blessing . For these words may refer as well to the lyar , as to the fupplanter of his brother . Q. I am fomewhat turn'd of 20 , have a clear re- putation , a ...
Page 537
... seem to make no diftinction between an ap- plication and a quotation : for as one rule may be ap- plied to many inftances , fo that paffage in St. Paul may be applied to other particulars than what he ap- plies it to . If the marriage ...
... seem to make no diftinction between an ap- plication and a quotation : for as one rule may be ap- plied to many inftances , fo that paffage in St. Paul may be applied to other particulars than what he ap- plies it to . If the marriage ...
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