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... Method of treating the Gout , 206 SPEECH intended to have been spoken at the General Court of the Eaft India Company , 231 intended to have been spoken at ALCOTT's Defcription of Petri- factions found near Bath , 73 WATTS'S Pofthumous ...
... Method of treating the Gout , 206 SPEECH intended to have been spoken at the General Court of the Eaft India Company , 231 intended to have been spoken at ALCOTT's Defcription of Petri- factions found near Bath , 73 WATTS'S Pofthumous ...
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... method to procure the return of the Court candidate . On the day of election , in order to intimidate the electors , he placed himfelf on the huflings clofe by the returning officer , the mayor , who had been an attorney , but was ...
... method to procure the return of the Court candidate . On the day of election , in order to intimidate the electors , he placed himfelf on the huflings clofe by the returning officer , the mayor , who had been an attorney , but was ...
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... method , by making three cylindrical apertures through each fide , thereby not only confiderably leffening the weight of lateral preffure , but adding greatly to the picturesque form form and elegance of the bridge , which bids fair The ...
... method , by making three cylindrical apertures through each fide , thereby not only confiderably leffening the weight of lateral preffure , but adding greatly to the picturesque form form and elegance of the bridge , which bids fair The ...
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... method of carrying them into execution . This would be of great confequence in the mean time , and might pave the way for a new and compete act of parliament , if not for Great Britain , at least for this part of it . ' Our ingenious ...
... method of carrying them into execution . This would be of great confequence in the mean time , and might pave the way for a new and compete act of parliament , if not for Great Britain , at least for this part of it . ' Our ingenious ...
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... method of cure , the Author very justly reprobates evacuations , and particularly bleeding , which had been much ufed by the ancients , and recommended by every writer on the fubject , till the publication of Dr. Fother- gill's ...
... method of cure , the Author very justly reprobates evacuations , and particularly bleeding , which had been much ufed by the ancients , and recommended by every writer on the fubject , till the publication of Dr. Fother- gill's ...
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Página 90 - To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Página 3 - If, by a more noble and more adequate conception, that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new; that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just; if it be that which he that never found it wonders how he missed; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen.
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Página 88 - ... of his saintly exercises, a prayer stolen word for word from the mouth of a heathen woman praying to a heathen god ?" The papers which the king gave to Dr.
Página 4 - It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
Página 89 - ... read for pleasure or accomplishment, and who buy the numerous products of modern typography, the number was then comparatively small. To prove the paucity of readers, it may be sufficient to remark, that the nation had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664, that is, forty-one years, with only two editions of the works of Shakspeare, which probably did not together make one thousand copies.
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