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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... these are your case , and love at last should happen to be the question ; we advise you to continue your assiduity in visits , to be obliging in your conversation , genetous and open in your behaviour ; and then if she is a Lady worth ...
... these are your case , and love at last should happen to be the question ; we advise you to continue your assiduity in visits , to be obliging in your conversation , genetous and open in your behaviour ; and then if she is a Lady worth ...
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... these symptoms appear , you may conclude that's the critical minute , which must crown your felicity : Q. Gentlemen , Meeting with your proposals , wherein you tell the world you design to answer questions , I desire you will give me ...
... these symptoms appear , you may conclude that's the critical minute , which must crown your felicity : Q. Gentlemen , Meeting with your proposals , wherein you tell the world you design to answer questions , I desire you will give me ...
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... these great things you do attain , Sir , How will the money flow amain , Sir ? Or set up your coach by the gains , Sir ? A. Should we for twenty take the care , Sir , And after turn them out all bare , Sir , Or keep Exchange to make you ...
... these great things you do attain , Sir , How will the money flow amain , Sir ? Or set up your coach by the gains , Sir ? A. Should we for twenty take the care , Sir , And after turn them out all bare , Sir , Or keep Exchange to make you ...
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... these minute hairs in wooll is less than it is in what we properly call hair . It remains then only to find out some reason why the hair of Blacks does consist of a less number of these minute hairs than that of other nations , and it ...
... these minute hairs in wooll is less than it is in what we properly call hair . It remains then only to find out some reason why the hair of Blacks does consist of a less number of these minute hairs than that of other nations , and it ...
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... These empty people know nothing of that divine passion , love . There are another fort of Novealy morose fellows , who know as little of it ; these never rise higher in their thoughts than the satisfaction of a prevailing apa petite ...
... These empty people know nothing of that divine passion , love . There are another fort of Novealy morose fellows , who know as little of it ; these never rise higher in their thoughts than the satisfaction of a prevailing apa petite ...
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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.