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... present cafe , there was plainly no occafion for any fuch strict and abfolute provifion to be made . In order to judge of what is morally good or evil , of what man ought , or ought not in duty to do , it was fit that the means of clear ...
... present cafe , there was plainly no occafion for any fuch strict and abfolute provifion to be made . In order to judge of what is morally good or evil , of what man ought , or ought not in duty to do , it was fit that the means of clear ...
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... present , by means of words , or founds , which they uttered . Afterwards , they devised this further method , of mutual communication with one another , when abfent , by means of marks or cha- racters prefented to the eye , which we ...
... present , by means of words , or founds , which they uttered . Afterwards , they devised this further method , of mutual communication with one another , when abfent , by means of marks or cha- racters prefented to the eye , which we ...
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... into parchment , were the most common materials . Our present method of writing on paper , is an invention of no greater antiquity than the fourteenth century . THYS VII . THUS I have given fome account of the 170 RISE AND PROGRESS.
... into parchment , were the most common materials . Our present method of writing on paper , is an invention of no greater antiquity than the fourteenth century . THYS VII . THUS I have given fome account of the 170 RISE AND PROGRESS.
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... present purpose , it will be better to make use of these known terms than of any other . We are naturally led to begin with the con- fideration of fubftantive nouns , which are the foundation of all Grammar , and may be con- fidered as ...
... present purpose , it will be better to make use of these known terms than of any other . We are naturally led to begin with the con- fideration of fubftantive nouns , which are the foundation of all Grammar , and may be con- fidered as ...
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... present to each other , when they speak , their sex muft appear , and therefore needs not be marked by a mafculine or feminine pronoun . But , as the third perfon may be abfent , or unknown , the diftinction of gender there becomes ...
... present to each other , when they speak , their sex muft appear , and therefore needs not be marked by a mafculine or feminine pronoun . But , as the third perfon may be abfent , or unknown , the diftinction of gender there becomes ...
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Página 426 - Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
Página 426 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Página 395 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Página 85 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 427 - But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
Página 66 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Página 79 - Th' infernal monarch rear'd his horrid head, Leap'd from his throne, lest Neptune's arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day, And pour in light on Pluto's drear abodes, Abhorr'd by men, and dreadful ev'n to gods. Such war th' immortals wage; such horrors rend The world's vast concave, when the gods contend.
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