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Professor Millar, in his work on the " Origin of Ranks," has acutely remarked, that
the custom so prevalent in ancient times of the bridegroom giving presents to the
father of the bride, was, in reality, nothing less than a custom of buying the ...
Professor Millar, in his work on the " Origin of Ranks," has acutely remarked, that
the custom so prevalent in ancient times of the bridegroom giving presents to the
father of the bride, was, in reality, nothing less than a custom of buying the ...
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The writers from whom the world has derived all its present information
concerning the life and institutions of Mahomet may be divided into three classes,
viz., the Arabian writers themselves ; the contemporary Christian writers ; and the
more ...
The writers from whom the world has derived all its present information
concerning the life and institutions of Mahomet may be divided into three classes,
viz., the Arabian writers themselves ; the contemporary Christian writers ; and the
more ...
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My dear Smith, " I give you thanks for the agreeable present of your 'Theory.'
Wedder- burn and I made presents of our copies to such of our acquaintances as
we thought good judges and proper to spread the reputation of the book. I sent
one ...
My dear Smith, " I give you thanks for the agreeable present of your 'Theory.'
Wedder- burn and I made presents of our copies to such of our acquaintances as
we thought good judges and proper to spread the reputation of the book. I sent
one ...
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The School of Wren. — His Successors. It may be proper to close this treatise
with a few observations on the successors of Wren, — on the present taste for
architecture, — and on the French school. Hawkesmore, Vanbrugh, Gibbs, and
others, ...
The School of Wren. — His Successors. It may be proper to close this treatise
with a few observations on the successors of Wren, — on the present taste for
architecture, — and on the French school. Hawkesmore, Vanbrugh, Gibbs, and
others, ...
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The only thing that remains to do, is that about which I wrote you some months
ago, — if you should meet with a respectable and well-situated house for sale, to
let me know ; and thus I write you again, that if such a house should present itself,
...
The only thing that remains to do, is that about which I wrote you some months
ago, — if you should meet with a respectable and well-situated house for sale, to
let me know ; and thus I write you again, that if such a house should present itself,
...
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able according admiration afterwards already ancient appears beauty body called carried cause centre character church common complete considered continued court death desire direction discovered distance earth effect employed England English equal expressed fact force Galileo give given hand honour important interest Italy Kepler king knowledge known labour learned less letter light lived Lord manner matter means measure ment mentioned method Michael Angelo mind motion move nature never Newton object observations occasion opinion original passed perhaps period persons philosopher planets present principles printed probably produced proportion published reason received remained remarkable respect Rome says seems sent society soon supposed taken theory thing thought tion true universal whole Wolsey writings
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Página 17 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Página 2 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Página 8 - How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.
Página 13 - Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter ; when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame ; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances ; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Página 32 - I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there -were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots : and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Página 31 - I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of — MICHAEL ANGELO*.
Página 18 - Labour was the first price, the original purchase money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of' labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.
Página 30 - ... the main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses and to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such like questions.
Página 36 - Well, well, Master Kingston," quoth he, "I see the matter against me how it is framed; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Página 62 - I held and believed that the sun is the centre of the world and immovable, and that the earth is not the centre and...
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| Título | Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler Libr. of useful knowledge Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler, Lives |
| Autor | Lives |
| Publicado | 1833 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 14 Mar 2007 |
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