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... origin of Noblemen turned critics Numerical figures Pasquin and Marforio Patrons De Periers , Bonaventure Physiognomy Platonism , modern Poetry , Spanish Port - royal society Poverty , history of Preachers , jocular Prefaces Printing ...
... origin of Noblemen turned critics Numerical figures Pasquin and Marforio Patrons De Periers , Bonaventure Physiognomy Platonism , modern Poetry , Spanish Port - royal society Poverty , history of Preachers , jocular Prefaces Printing ...
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... origin of so many literary journals was the happy project of DENIS de SALLO , a coun- sellor in the parliament of Paris . In 1665 ap- peared his Journal des Sçavans . He published his essay in the name of the Sieur de Hedouville , his ...
... origin of so many literary journals was the happy project of DENIS de SALLO , a coun- sellor in the parliament of Paris . In 1665 ap- peared his Journal des Sçavans . He published his essay in the name of the Sieur de Hedouville , his ...
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... origin . We have on record many curious accounts of their pious depredations , of their maiming images and erasing pictures . The heroic expeditions of one Dowsing are journalised by himself : a fa- natical Quixote , to whose intrepid ...
... origin . We have on record many curious accounts of their pious depredations , of their maiming images and erasing pictures . The heroic expeditions of one Dowsing are journalised by himself : a fa- natical Quixote , to whose intrepid ...
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... origin of our ideas , and what ideas were , and whether we really had an idea of a thing before we discovered the thing itself - in a word , what they called universals , and the essence of universals ; of all this nonsense on which ...
... origin of our ideas , and what ideas were , and whether we really had an idea of a thing before we discovered the thing itself - in a word , what they called universals , and the essence of universals ; of all this nonsense on which ...
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... the 4 real presence of Christ in the Sacrament , they at OR SCHOLASTIC DISQUISITIONS . 109 Natural productions, resembling artificial compositions 450 Newspapers, origin of 270 Noblemen turned critics 230 Numerical figures 485.
... the 4 real presence of Christ in the Sacrament , they at OR SCHOLASTIC DISQUISITIONS . 109 Natural productions, resembling artificial compositions 450 Newspapers, origin of 270 Noblemen turned critics 230 Numerical figures 485.
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الصفحة 258 - Oh! happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature law: All then is full, possessing and...
الصفحة 147 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
الصفحة 57 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
الصفحة 160 - ... his surprise was increased by the appearance of a large cross, triumphantly erected over the principal gate of Ephesus. His singular dress and obsolete language confounded the baker, to whom he offered an ancient medal of Decius as the current coin of the empire ; and Jamblichus, on the suspicion of a secret treasure, was dragged before the judge. Their mutual inquiries produced the amazing discovery that two centuries were almost elapsed since Jamblichus and his friends had escaped from the...
الصفحة 159 - When the emperor Decius persecuted the Christians, seven noble youths of Ephesus concealed themselves in a spacious cavern in the side of an adjacent mountain ; where they were doomed to perish by the tyrant, who gave orders that the entrance should be firmly secured with a pile of huge stones.
الصفحة 507 - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
الصفحة 221 - For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand : he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness : these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
الصفحة 331 - I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers and directors. Save but our army ! and let Jove...
الصفحة 112 - I'm resolv'd to search for thee ; The search itself rewards the pains. So, though the chymic his great secret miss (For neither it in art or nature is), Yet things well worth his toil he gains : And does his charge and labour pay With good unsought experiments by the way.
الصفحة 500 - Elias Ashmole writes in his diary — " May 13, 1653. My father Backhouse (an astrologer who had adopted him for his son, a common practice with these men) lying sick in Fleetstreet, over against St Dunstan's church, and not knowing whether he should live or die, about eleven of the clock, told me in syllables the true matter of the philosopher's stone, which he bequeathed to me as a legacy.