The British Plutarch, Or Biographical Entertainer: Being a Select Collection of the Lives ... of the Most Eminent Men ... of Great Britain and Ireland ; from the Reign of Henry VIII. to George II. Both Inclusive ...E. Dilly, 1762 |
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... should be occafion for it ; and he could not think of throwing away his time upon meer abstracted fpeculations , how enter- taining foever they might be . Accordingly , he , now turned his thoughts to a fubject of more immediate ufe ...
... should be occafion for it ; and he could not think of throwing away his time upon meer abstracted fpeculations , how enter- taining foever they might be . Accordingly , he , now turned his thoughts to a fubject of more immediate ufe ...
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... should not then be acquainted with Mr. Norwood's Menfuration , which was made in 1635 ; and feems to be more fo ftill , that he did not in- form himfelf , when he returned to Cambridge , which he did fhortly after ; and , in the which ...
... should not then be acquainted with Mr. Norwood's Menfuration , which was made in 1635 ; and feems to be more fo ftill , that he did not in- form himfelf , when he returned to Cambridge , which he did fhortly after ; and , in the which ...
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... should have thought it too ftrait and narrrow for public view . I defigned it only to thofe who know how to improve upon hints of things ; and therefore to fhun tedioufnefs , omitted many fuch remarks and experiments as might be col ...
... should have thought it too ftrait and narrrow for public view . I defigned it only to thofe who know how to improve upon hints of things ; and therefore to fhun tedioufnefs , omitted many fuch remarks and experiments as might be col ...
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... should find it out . f In the winter between 1676 and 1677 , he -found the grand propofition , that , by a centri- petal force reciprocally as the fquare of the distance , a planet must revolve in an ellipfis about the centre of force ...
... should find it out . f In the winter between 1676 and 1677 , he -found the grand propofition , that , by a centri- petal force reciprocally as the fquare of the distance , a planet must revolve in an ellipfis about the centre of force ...
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... should . But this the doctor imputes to an abfence commonly feen in great geniuses . " Inventors , " fays he , " feem to treasure up in their minds what they have found out , after another manner than thofe do the fame things who have ...
... should . But this the doctor imputes to an abfence commonly feen in great geniuses . " Inventors , " fays he , " feem to treasure up in their minds what they have found out , after another manner than thofe do the fame things who have ...
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Seite 51 - ... of rocks in the mines, and then melting the slimy solution in a strong fire, which in the cooling proves copper. The like is said to be done in other places, which I cannot now remember ; perhaps, too, it may be done in Italy. For about twenty or thirty years...
Seite 100 - em!' replied the bard, 'if the scene is not a good one, let them find that out.
Seite 188 - Those who live to see such happy days, and to act in so glorious a scene, will perhaps call to mind, with some tenderness of sentiment, when he is no more, a man who contributed his mite to carry on so good a work, and who desired life for nothing so much, as to see a king of Great Britain the most popular man in his country, and a Patriot King at the head of a united people.
Seite 149 - A Canon ! that's a place too mean ; No, Doctor, you shall be a Dean ; Two dozen canons round your stall, And you the tyrant o'er them all: You need but cross the Irish seas, To live in plenty, power, and ease.
Seite 90 - I confefs there was a time when I was in love with myfelf, and my firft productions were the children of felf-love upon innocence.
Seite 105 - A large number of fugitive political tracts, which had their value when the incidents were actually passing on the great scene of business, came from his pen : the periodical paper, called the
Seite 107 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age.
Seite 123 - I confess in some places I was forced to read twice. I believe I told you before what the Duke of Dorset said to me on that...
Seite 118 - I sent fair messages to acquaint them where I was to be found in town, and to offer to call at their houses to satisfy them, and so it dropped.
Seite 106 - Mr. Young proceeded on his journey, till he arrived very quietly and calmly in the enemy's camp, where he was, with difficulty, brought to a recollection of himfalf by the repetition of £>ui va la, from the foldicrs upon duty.