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... appeared during his lifetime in the books of other scholars . Since his death , many more have been published from his MSS . These , while varying much in fulness and value , cannot be over- looked in a survey of the field which his ...
... appeared during his lifetime in the books of other scholars . Since his death , many more have been published from his MSS . These , while varying much in fulness and value , cannot be over- looked in a survey of the field which his ...
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... appearance . " The only notice of Bentley's school - life by himself ( so far as I know ) is in Cumberland's Memoirs , and is highly charac- teristic . " I have had from him at times whilst standing at his elbow " —says his grandson ...
... appearance . " The only notice of Bentley's school - life by himself ( so far as I know ) is in Cumberland's Memoirs , and is highly charac- teristic . " I have had from him at times whilst standing at his elbow " —says his grandson ...
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... appeared , with Bentley's Letter to Mill as an appendix . This edition ( " Oxonii , e Theatro Sheldoni- ano " ) is a moderately thick octavo volume ; first stands a note by Hody , on the spelling of the chronicler's sur- name ; then his ...
... appeared , with Bentley's Letter to Mill as an appendix . This edition ( " Oxonii , e Theatro Sheldoni- ano " ) is a moderately thick octavo volume ; first stands a note by Hody , on the spelling of the chronicler's sur- name ; then his ...
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... appeared at Berlin . A Dutch version subsequently came out at Utrecht . There was one instance , indeed , of dissent from the general approval . A Yorkshire squire wrote a pam- phlet , intimating that his own experience did not lead him ...
... appeared at Berlin . A Dutch version subsequently came out at Utrecht . There was one instance , indeed , of dissent from the general approval . A Yorkshire squire wrote a pam- phlet , intimating that his own experience did not lead him ...
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... appeared at Utrecht in 1697 , with Bentley's contributions . In the preface Graevius shows his sense that the work done by Bentley- “ that new and brilliant light of Brit- ain " —was not merely excellent in quality , but of a new order ...
... appeared at Utrecht in 1697 , with Bentley's contributions . In the preface Graevius shows his sense that the work done by Bentley- “ that new and brilliant light of Brit- ain " —was not merely excellent in quality , but of a new order ...
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Página 203 - With a full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL With Portraits.
Página 24 - ... a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers" (3d letter to Bentley, 5th February 1692-93).
Página 24 - You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.
Página 168 - The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Página 138 - Scholiast, whose unweary'd pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. Turn what they will to Verse, their toil is vain, Critics like me shall make it Prose again. Roman and Greek Grammarians! know your Better: Author of something yet more great than Letter; While tow'ring o'er your Alphabet, like Saul, Stands our Digamma, and o'er-tops them all.
Página 24 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Página 168 - Like night and darken'd all the land of Nile: So numberless were those bad angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of hell, 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires...
Página 190 - Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great Vision of the guarded Mount Looks towards Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth: And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.
Página 187 - God, and the edification of my fellow creatures ; but the wit and genius of those old heathens beguiled me, and as I despaired of raising myself up to their standard, upon fair ground, I thought the only chance I had of looking over their heads was to get upon their shoulders.
Página 26 - I had considered it very little before your letter put me upon it, and therefore trouble you with a line or two more about it, if this comes not too late for your use. " In my former I represented that the diurnal rotations of...