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... letter to Mr. Short ; which the latter persuaded the author to communicate , first to Euler , and then , with his answer , to the Royal Society . Assuming Newton's law , Dollond shows that Euler's method would destroy all refraction as ...
... letter to Mr. Short ; which the latter persuaded the author to communicate , first to Euler , and then , with his answer , to the Royal Society . Assuming Newton's law , Dollond shows that Euler's method would destroy all refraction as ...
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... letter extant from an old friend of the family , which has this curious postscript , " Is Johnny aye greeting yet ? " presenting an unexpected picture to those who are familiar only with the ... letters gave to all around. D 2 John Hunter.
... letter extant from an old friend of the family , which has this curious postscript , " Is Johnny aye greeting yet ? " presenting an unexpected picture to those who are familiar only with the ... letters gave to all around. D 2 John Hunter.
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the pleasure which that brother's letters gave to all around him . These feelings made him ashamed of his idleness , and inclined him to go to London , and become an assistant to Dr. William Hunter in his anatomical inquiries . William ...
the pleasure which that brother's letters gave to all around him . These feelings made him ashamed of his idleness , and inclined him to go to London , and become an assistant to Dr. William Hunter in his anatomical inquiries . William ...
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... letter from the Roman Senate , inviting him to accept the honour of a public coronation in the Capitol , and one from the Chancellor of the University of Paris , offering the same distinction . It has been said , and there is at least ...
... letter from the Roman Senate , inviting him to accept the honour of a public coronation in the Capitol , and one from the Chancellor of the University of Paris , offering the same distinction . It has been said , and there is at least ...
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... letters patent of the King of Naples and of the senate and people of Rome , conferring on him by their joint authorities the full and free power of reading , dis- cussing , and explaining all ancient books , composing new works ( espe ...
... letters patent of the King of Naples and of the senate and people of Rome , conferring on him by their joint authorities the full and free power of reading , dis- cussing , and explaining all ancient books , composing new works ( espe ...
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Página 197 - ... our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas...
Página 161 - He is a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and scorner of others, given rather to lose a friend than a jest, jealous of every word and action of those about him, (especially after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth...
Página 13 - ' are most of them old decayed serving men and tapsters, " ' and such kind of fellows ; and,' said I, ' their troops " ' are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of " ' quality ; do you think that the spirits of such base and " ' mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen. " ' that have honour and courage, and resolution in them...
Página 62 - 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 196 - Tell me, ye merchants' daughters, did ye see So fair a creature in your town before ! So sweet, so lovely, and so mild as she, Adorned with Beauty's grace and Virtue's store...
Página 177 - Chaucer) were of the Inner Temple ; for not many years since Master Buckley did see a record in the same house where Geoffry Chaucer was fined two shillings for beating a Franciscan Friar in Fleet Street.
Página 158 - That the argument of his comedy might have been of some other nature, as of a duke to be in love with a countess, and that countess to be in love with the duke's son, and the son to love the lady's waiting-maid : some such cross wooing, with a clown to their servingman, better than to be thus near, and familiarly allied to the time.
Página 42 - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
Página 157 - The Winter's Tale is sneered at by B. Jonson, in the induction to Bartholomew Fair, 1614: " If there be never a servant-monster in the fair, who can help it, nor a nest of Antiques ? He is loth to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget TALES, Tempests, and such like drolleries.
Página 187 - ... ever come, when you shall wish to enjoy the tranquillity of private life, may you have a son endowed with such qualities, that you can resign your sceptre to him, with as much satisfaction as I give up mine to you.