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... say that we were ignorant of the principles of things , was not only to enlist among the sceptics , but sink into atheism itself . So far can prejudice darken the understanding , as to make it consider precarious systems as the chief ...
... say that we were ignorant of the principles of things , was not only to enlist among the sceptics , but sink into atheism itself . So far can prejudice darken the understanding , as to make it consider precarious systems as the chief ...
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... says Boerhaave ; " let them take bread and wine , the food that forms the blood of man , and by assi- milation contributes to the growth of the body : let them try all their arts , they shall not be able from these materials to produce ...
... says Boerhaave ; " let them take bread and wine , the food that forms the blood of man , and by assi- milation contributes to the growth of the body : let them try all their arts , they shall not be able from these materials to produce ...
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... says Clarendon , " without any appear- ance of ambition to be a greater man than he was , but inveighed with great freedom against the license of the times , and power of the court . " In 1640 he was chosen burgess for Bridgewater by ...
... says Clarendon , " without any appear- ance of ambition to be a greater man than he was , but inveighed with great freedom against the license of the times , and power of the court . " In 1640 he was chosen burgess for Bridgewater by ...
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... say he was ignorant of the strength of the Dutch fleet , is to impute to him a very criminal degree of negligence ; and , at least , it must be confessed that , from the time he saw them , he could not but know that they were too ...
... say he was ignorant of the strength of the Dutch fleet , is to impute to him a very criminal degree of negligence ; and , at least , it must be confessed that , from the time he saw them , he could not but know that they were too ...
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... says Blake , " the business of a sea- man to mind state affairs , but to hinder foreigners from fooling us . " This was the principle from which he never deviated , and which he always en- deavoured to inculcate in the fleet , as the ...
... says Blake , " the business of a sea- man to mind state affairs , but to hinder foreigners from fooling us . " This was the principle from which he never deviated , and which he always en- deavoured to inculcate in the fleet , as the ...
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Page 455 - ... commemoration available to the confirmation of my faith, the establishment of my hope, and the enlargement of my charity; and make the death of thy Son JESUS CHRIST effectual to my redemption. Have mercy upon me, and pardon the multitude of my offences. Bless my friends ; have mercy upon all men. Support me, by thy Holy Spirit, in the days of weakness, and at the hour of death ; and receive me, at my death, to everlasting happiness, for the sake of JESUS CHRIST. Amen.
Page 283 - a lady," says Whitefoot, " of such symmetrical proportion to her worthy husband, both in the graces of her body and mind, that they seemed to come together by a kind of natural magnetism.
Page 311 - Faith ; to be particular, I am of that Reformed new-cast Religion, wherein I dislike nothing but the Name ; of the same belief our Saviour taught, the Apostles disseminated, the Fathers authorized, and the Martyrs confirmed, but by the sinister ends of Princes, the ambition and avarice of Prelates, and the fatal corruption of times, so decayed, impaired, and fallen from its native Beauty, that it required the careful and charitable hands of these times to restore it to its primitive Integrity.
Page 436 - I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would spare my understanding. This prayer, that I might try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin verse. The lines were not very good, but I knew them not to be very good : I made them easily, and concluded myself to be unimpaired in my faculties.
Page 60 - He was the first man who brought the ships to contemn castles on shore, which had been thought ever very formidable, and were discovered by him to make a noise only, and to fright those who could rarely be hurt by them. He was the first that infused that proportion of courage into the seamen, by making them see by experience what mighty things they could do if they were resolved...
Page 284 - ... and had^[ lately declared, that " the whole world was made for man, " but only the twelfth part of man for woman ;" and, that " man is the whole world, but woman only " the rib or crooked part of man.
Page 280 - There are many things delivered rhetorically, many expressions therein merely tropical, and as they best illustrate my intention ; and therefore also there are many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason.
Page 60 - He was the first that infused that proportion of courage into seamen, by making them see, by experience, what mighty things they could do if they were resolved, and taught them to fight in fire, as well as upon...
Page 378 - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Page 435 - I am sitting down in no cheerful solitude to write a narrative which would once have affected you with tenderness and sorrow, but which you will perhaps pass over now with the careless glance of frigid indifference. For this diminution of regard however, I know not whether I ought to blame you, who may have reasons which I cannot know, and I do not blame myself, who have for a great part of human life done you what good I could, and have never done you evil.