Letters Concerning the English NationL. Davis and C. Reymers; R. Baldwin, and S. Crowder and Company, 1760 - 255 páginas |
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... academy of fciences . Mr. de Fontenelle prefides as judge over Philofophers ; and the English expected his decifion , as a folemn decla- ration of the fuperioriry of the English Phi- lofophy over that of the French . But when it was ...
... academy of fciences . Mr. de Fontenelle prefides as judge over Philofophers ; and the English expected his decifion , as a folemn decla- ration of the fuperioriry of the English Phi- lofophy over that of the French . But when it was ...
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... academy of 1709 , and Mr. de Fontenelle in the very elogium of Sir Ifaac Newton . MOST of the French , the learned and others , have repeated this reproach . These are are for ever crying out , why did he not 110 LETTERS concerning.
... academy of 1709 , and Mr. de Fontenelle in the very elogium of Sir Ifaac Newton . MOST of the French , the learned and others , have repeated this reproach . These are are for ever crying out , why did he not 110 LETTERS concerning.
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... Academy of Sci- ences many years before us ; but then it is not under fuch prudent regulations as ours : The only reafon of which very pof- fibly is , because it was founded before the Academy of Paris ; for had it been found- ed after ...
... Academy of Sci- ences many years before us ; but then it is not under fuch prudent regulations as ours : The only reafon of which very pof- fibly is , because it was founded before the Academy of Paris ; for had it been found- ed after ...
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... academy , and of receiving the royal ftipend , has a love for the sciences ; he must at the same time be deeply skill'd in them ; and is oblig'd to difpute the feat with competitors who are fo much the more formidable as they are fir'd ...
... academy , and of receiving the royal ftipend , has a love for the sciences ; he must at the same time be deeply skill'd in them ; and is oblig'd to difpute the feat with competitors who are fo much the more formidable as they are fir'd ...
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... Academy of Paris is on a quite different foot , ' tis no wonder that our tranfactions are drawn up in a more just and beautiful manner than thofe of the English . Soldiers who are under a regular difcipline , and befides well paid ...
... Academy of Paris is on a quite different foot , ' tis no wonder that our tranfactions are drawn up in a more just and beautiful manner than thofe of the English . Soldiers who are under a regular difcipline , and befides well paid ...
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Página 171 - And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her, side, and Megrim at her head.
Página 139 - Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Página 149 - He spoke of his works as of trifles that were beneath him ; and hinted to me, in our first conversation, that I should visit him upon no other foot than that of a gentleman, who led a life of plainness and simplicity.
Página 170 - For, that sad moment, when the sylphs withdrew, And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew, Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite, As ever sullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repair'd to search the gloomy cave of Spleen.
Página 18 - ... is both to God and man : If after all these warnings and advertisements, thou dost not turn unto the Lord with all thy heart, but forget him, who remembered thee in thy distress, and give up thyself to follow lust and vanity; surely great will be thy condemnation.
Página 136 - No Traveller returns) puzzles the Will ; And makes us rather bear thofe Ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of. Thus...
Página 148 - He was infirm and come to the verge of life when I knew him. Mr. Congreve had one defect, which was his entertaining too mean an idea of his first profession (that of a writer), though it was to this he owed his fame and fortune.
Página 18 - Against which snare as well as the temptation of those that may or do feed thee, and prompt thee to evil, the most excellent and prevalent remedy will be, to apply thyself to that Light of Christ, which shineth in thy...
Página 135 - To be, or not to be : that is the queftion— — — Whether 'tis nobler in the mind, to fuffer The flings and arrows of outragious fortune j Or to take arms againft a fea of troubles, * And by oppofing end them.
Página 171 - She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side, and Megrim at her head. Two handmaids wait the throne: alike in place, But differing far in figure and in face.