The History of the Works of the Learned ..., المجلد 9J. Robinson, 1741 Containing impartial accounts and accurate abstracts of the most valuable books published in Great Britain and foreign parts ... |
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... Place quotes a very ancient Author , who faith that Mafinia , tho ' he was very old , was fo active and vigorous , that he could mount his Horse to the laft , without the Help of a Stirrup , which , if true , will carry the Invention ...
... Place quotes a very ancient Author , who faith that Mafinia , tho ' he was very old , was fo active and vigorous , that he could mount his Horse to the laft , without the Help of a Stirrup , which , if true , will carry the Invention ...
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... place a new System , founded " chiefly upon the Epicurean Philofophy , and em- " bellished with the most plaufible Reafons . - Thus fetting out , and accompanying his Theory with " a great Indulgence and Tenderness in moft of hist ...
... place a new System , founded " chiefly upon the Epicurean Philofophy , and em- " bellished with the most plaufible Reafons . - Thus fetting out , and accompanying his Theory with " a great Indulgence and Tenderness in moft of hist ...
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... Places sc - " Places Nature has appeared obfequious , as Art . 2 . For JANUARY , 1741 . 21.
... Places sc - " Places Nature has appeared obfequious , as Art . 2 . For JANUARY , 1741 . 21.
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... Places . A remarkable Inftance of " the Uniformity of human Nature even in a de- " praved and corrupt State . The Doctrine of Crifes and critical Days , our Author fays , was the Child of Experience , and nurfed up in daily Obfervation ...
... Places . A remarkable Inftance of " the Uniformity of human Nature even in a de- " praved and corrupt State . The Doctrine of Crifes and critical Days , our Author fays , was the Child of Experience , and nurfed up in daily Obfervation ...
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... Place di- " minishes that of Gravity , and fo much the more as " that Place is nearer the Equator ; and the Gra- « vity of Bodies , thus abated , fhould appear less " at the Equator , than near the Poles , and leffer in " Places near ...
... Place di- " minishes that of Gravity , and fo much the more as " that Place is nearer the Equator ; and the Gra- « vity of Bodies , thus abated , fhould appear less " at the Equator , than near the Poles , and leffer in " Places near ...
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الصفحة 373 - Penniston, and there laid the foundation of that knowledge of the Greek and Roman languages, which he afterwards improved so far, by his own application to the classic authors, as to hear the works of Euclid, Archimedes, and Diophantus, read in their original Greek.
الصفحة 378 - He could judge of the size of a room, into which he was introduced, of the distance he was from the wall ; and if ever he had walked over a pavement in courts, piazzas, &c. which reflected a sound, and was afterwards conducted thither again, he could exactly tell whereabouts in the walk he was placed, merely. by the note it sounded.
الصفحة 153 - Scaevolas; all which accomplishments were but ministerial and subservient to that on which his hopes and ambition were singly placed, the reputation of an orator: To qualify himself therefore particularly for this, he attended the pleadings of all the speakers of his time ; heard the daily lectures of the most eminent orators of Greece, and was perpetually composing somewhat at home, and declaiming under their correction : and that he might neglect nothing which could help in any degree to improve...
الصفحة 376 - But, if we consider that the ideas of extended quantity, which are the chief objects of mathematics, may as well be acquired from the sense of feeling, as that of sight ; that a fixed and steady attention is the principal qualification for this study ; and that the blind are by necessity more abstracted than others, for which reason...
الصفحة 373 - Here it was that his genius first appeared: for he very soon became able to work the common questions, to make long calculations by the strength of his memory, and to form new rules to himself for the more ready solving of such" problems as are often proposed to learners, as trials of skill.
الصفحة 377 - ... who could see it. He could tell when any thing was held near his face, or when he passed by a tree at no great distance, provided the air was calm, and...
الصفحة 404 - ... and received all that came to him ; preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
الصفحة 269 - And health and vigor are at once restor'd. lapis first perceiv'd the closing wound, And first the footsteps of a god he found. "Arms! arms!
الصفحة 97 - London, and a great convenience to the merchant^ who wanted such a place to meet and transact their affairs in, but likewise contributed very much to the promotion of trade, both by the number of shops erected there, and the much greater number of the poor, who were employed in working for them. And the donation of his own mansionhouse for a seat of learning and the liberal arts, with...
الصفحة 382 - This flatters his lazinefs, it flatters my judgment, who always thought that (univerfal as his talents are) this is eminently and peculiarly his, above all the writers I know living or dead : I do not except Horace.