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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... concerning the na- tural and morbid State of the human Body , than , perhaps , had been from the Beginning of the World , to that Day . The medical Tribe , it feems , leaving the old beaten Path of obferving carefully the Phenomena of ...
... concerning the na- tural and morbid State of the human Body , than , perhaps , had been from the Beginning of the World , to that Day . The medical Tribe , it feems , leaving the old beaten Path of obferving carefully the Phenomena of ...
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... concerning the mea- fure of the Degrees of Heat : a Subject hitherto lit- tle and but indiftinctly handled , and yet without a Knowledge of which , our Ideas of Heat , and of its Effects on Bodies , muft be very imperfect . In the first ...
... concerning the mea- fure of the Degrees of Heat : a Subject hitherto lit- tle and but indiftinctly handled , and yet without a Knowledge of which , our Ideas of Heat , and of its Effects on Bodies , muft be very imperfect . In the first ...
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... concerning the Crifes and Events of many Distempers ; yet , confcious of a great deal of the neceffary Data being yet wanting , he very " flightly touched upon the Explanation of the Va- " riety of the Periods of Difeafes , and only ...
... concerning the Crifes and Events of many Distempers ; yet , confcious of a great deal of the neceffary Data being yet wanting , he very " flightly touched upon the Explanation of the Va- " riety of the Periods of Difeafes , and only ...
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... concerning fimilar Animals ; premifing , that " if we will take the Pains to exa- mine the Matter more narrowly , we fhall find that , if Animals of however different Sizes be tolerably fimilar , the Circulations of their Liquors in the ...
... concerning fimilar Animals ; premifing , that " if we will take the Pains to exa- mine the Matter more narrowly , we fhall find that , if Animals of however different Sizes be tolerably fimilar , the Circulations of their Liquors in the ...
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... concerning their Nobility , that are no apter to inspire us with any efteem of them . He gives us a wretched Idea of the Clergy and Monas- gives 64 The WORKS of the LEARNED . Art . g . The next Letter is an Apology for Mahometanifm. ...
... concerning their Nobility , that are no apter to inspire us with any efteem of them . He gives us a wretched Idea of the Clergy and Monas- gives 64 The WORKS of the LEARNED . Art . g . The next Letter is an Apology for Mahometanifm. ...
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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.