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... PHILOSOPHERS , POETS , AND ARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND , FROM THE ACCESSION OF HENRY VIII . TO THE PRESENT TIME ; INCLUDING A COMPENDIOUS VIEW OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND DURING THAT PERIOD . VOLUME III . THE FIFTH EDITION ...
... PHILOSOPHERS , POETS , AND ARTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND , FROM THE ACCESSION OF HENRY VIII . TO THE PRESENT TIME ; INCLUDING A COMPENDIOUS VIEW OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND DURING THAT PERIOD . VOLUME III . THE FIFTH EDITION ...
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... philosophers , poets , and artists , that it would far exceed the limits of this work , if we were to give only concise memoirs of each ; it must there- fore be our business to select such , whose learned labours have been most useful ...
... philosophers , poets , and artists , that it would far exceed the limits of this work , if we were to give only concise memoirs of each ; it must there- fore be our business to select such , whose learned labours have been most useful ...
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... Philosophical Col lege ; " and which after the restoration , were incorporated , and distinguished , as they well deserved , by the title of « The Royal Society . " It is no small honor to this worthy person , that when he was so young ...
... Philosophical Col lege ; " and which after the restoration , were incorporated , and distinguished , as they well deserved , by the title of « The Royal Society . " It is no small honor to this worthy person , that when he was so young ...
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... philosophical experiments . It was now that he found himself surrounded by a number of learned friends , who resorted thither chiefly for the same reasons that he had done ; the Invisible College , as he called it , or Philo- sophical ...
... philosophical experiments . It was now that he found himself surrounded by a number of learned friends , who resorted thither chiefly for the same reasons that he had done ; the Invisible College , as he called it , or Philo- sophical ...
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... philosophy made then a great noise in the world , yet he would never be per- suaded to read the works of Des Cartes , for fear of being amused , and led away with a fair pretence of reasoning , and plausible ac count of things grounded ...
... philosophy made then a great noise in the world , yet he would never be per- suaded to read the works of Des Cartes , for fear of being amused , and led away with a fair pretence of reasoning , and plausible ac count of things grounded ...
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