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... Boyle Lectures , with New- ton's Letters : Sermons : Remarks upon a late Discourse of Free- thinking : Proposals for an edition of the New Testament : Answer to the Remarks of Conyers Middleton . - 4 . Bentley's Fragments of Callimachus ...
... Boyle Lectures , with New- ton's Letters : Sermons : Remarks upon a late Discourse of Free- thinking : Proposals for an edition of the New Testament : Answer to the Remarks of Conyers Middleton . - 4 . Bentley's Fragments of Callimachus ...
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... Boyle Lectures.◅ Prebendary of Worcester . Temple's Essay . Fragments of Callimachus . Nominated King's Librarian . Appointed , April 12. Wotton's Reflections . Chaplain in Ordinary to King . -F.R.S. - Boyle's Phalaris . Promotes ...
... Boyle Lectures.◅ Prebendary of Worcester . Temple's Essay . Fragments of Callimachus . Nominated King's Librarian . Appointed , April 12. Wotton's Reflections . Chaplain in Ordinary to King . -F.R.S. - Boyle's Phalaris . Promotes ...
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... Boyle Lectures . 1693 31 1699 37 1710 48 1711 49 1713 51 1726 64 1732 70 1739 77 Enlarged Dissertation on Phalaris . Emendations on Menander and Philemon . Horace . Remarks on a late Discourse of Free - thinking . Terence . Edition of ...
... Boyle Lectures . 1693 31 1699 37 1710 48 1711 49 1713 51 1726 64 1732 70 1739 77 Enlarged Dissertation on Phalaris . Emendations on Menander and Philemon . Horace . Remarks on a late Discourse of Free - thinking . Terence . Edition of ...
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... BOYLE LECTURES 19 CHAPTER III . LEARNED CORRESPONDENCE . - THE KING'S LIBRARIAN 33 CHAPTER IV . THE CONTROVERSY ON THE LETTERS OF PHALARIS 39 CHAPTER V. BENTLEY'S DISSERTATION . 62 22 CHAPTER VI . TRINITY COLLEGE , CAMBRIDGE 84 CHAPTER ...
... BOYLE LECTURES 19 CHAPTER III . LEARNED CORRESPONDENCE . - THE KING'S LIBRARIAN 33 CHAPTER IV . THE CONTROVERSY ON THE LETTERS OF PHALARIS 39 CHAPTER V. BENTLEY'S DISSERTATION . 62 22 CHAPTER VI . TRINITY COLLEGE , CAMBRIDGE 84 CHAPTER ...
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... Boyle's allies to Richard Dawes , constantly twit Bentley with owing all his learning to " indexes . " Thus , in a copy of verses preserved by Granger , Bentley figures as ' Zoilus , tir'd with turning o'er Dull indexes , a precious ...
... Boyle's allies to Richard Dawes , constantly twit Bentley with owing all his learning to " indexes . " Thus , in a copy of verses preserved by Granger , Bentley figures as ' Zoilus , tir'd with turning o'er Dull indexes , a precious ...
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Página 181 - A multitude, like which the populous north Pour'd never from her frozen loins, to pass Rhene or the Danaw, when her barbarous sons Came like a deluge on the south, and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Libyan sands.
Página 28 - ... 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 28 - 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 182 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand ; the gate With dreadful faces thronged, and fiery arms.
Página 28 - 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 41 - I think he must have little skill in painting, that cannot find out this to be an original ; such diversity of passions, upon such variety of actions and passages of life and government, such freedom of thought, such boldness of expression, such bounty to his friends, such scorn of his enemies, such honour of learned men, such esteem of good, such knowledge of life, such contempt of death, with such fierceness of nature and cruelty of revenge, could never be represented but by him that possessed...
Página 180 - Like night, and darkened 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; Till, as a signal giv'n, th...
Página 41 - Epistles, both living near the same time, which was that of Cyrus and Pythagoras. As the first has been agreed by all ages since for the greatest master in his kind, and all others of that sort have been but imitations of his original ; so I think the Epistles of Phalaris to have more grace, more spirit, more force of wit and genius, than any others I have ever seen, either ancient or modern.