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... Nature , check'd by Destiny , Has many secrets she would ne'er impart ; This famed philosopher is Nature's spie , And hireless gives th ' intelligence to Art . " In the next book , after four cantos of events at Verona , the scat of ...
... Nature , check'd by Destiny , Has many secrets she would ne'er impart ; This famed philosopher is Nature's spie , And hireless gives th ' intelligence to Art . " In the next book , after four cantos of events at Verona , the scat of ...
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... nature minutely , and was a fellow - thinker with Robert Boyle , who had a most lively interest in the application of the study of nature to the practice of medicine . Among Boyle's suggestions was an anticipation of the observing of ...
... nature minutely , and was a fellow - thinker with Robert Boyle , who had a most lively interest in the application of the study of nature to the practice of medicine . Among Boyle's suggestions was an anticipation of the observing of ...
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... nature , but that which tends to destroy its first con . ditions . Thus , he who attempts to get another man into his absolute power , does thereby put himself in a state of war with him . To avoid this state of war is one great reason ...
... nature , but that which tends to destroy its first con . ditions . Thus , he who attempts to get another man into his absolute power , does thereby put himself in a state of war with him . To avoid this state of war is one great reason ...
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