Letters Concerning the English NationL. Davis and C. Reymers; R. Baldwin, and S. Crowder and Company, 1760 - 255 páginas |
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... infinite space , poffeffing all abtract ideas ; in a word , completely en- dued with the moft fublime lights , which it unhappily forgets at its iffuing from the womb . FATHER Malebranche , in his fublime illufions , not only admitted ...
... infinite space , poffeffing all abtract ideas ; in a word , completely en- dued with the moft fublime lights , which it unhappily forgets at its iffuing from the womb . FATHER Malebranche , in his fublime illufions , not only admitted ...
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... reduc'd a fraction , by a perpetual divi- fion , to an infinite feries . G THE THE lord Brounker employ'd this feries to fquare the hyperbola the ENGLISH NATION . 121 On Infinites in Geometry, and Ifaac Newton's Chronology 12 1.
... reduc'd a fraction , by a perpetual divi- fion , to an infinite feries . G THE THE lord Brounker employ'd this feries to fquare the hyperbola the ENGLISH NATION . 121 On Infinites in Geometry, and Ifaac Newton's Chronology 12 1.
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... infinite curve , and that a curve may become infinitely less than another curve ? THAT there are infinite squares , infinite cubes , and infinites of infinites , all greater than one another , and the laft but one of which , is nothing ...
... infinite curve , and that a curve may become infinitely less than another curve ? THAT there are infinite squares , infinite cubes , and infinites of infinites , all greater than one another , and the laft but one of which , is nothing ...
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... infinite ; Comparing his fhort Life , void of all rest , To the eternal and the ever bleft . This bufy puzzling Stirrer up of Doubt , That frames deep Mysteries , then finds ' em out , Filling , with frantic Crowds of thinking Fools ...
... infinite ; Comparing his fhort Life , void of all rest , To the eternal and the ever bleft . This bufy puzzling Stirrer up of Doubt , That frames deep Mysteries , then finds ' em out , Filling , with frantic Crowds of thinking Fools ...
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... infinite blifs , to which scarce one man , among a million , has the least claim ? If you are defirous of convincing me , take a different course ; and don't one moment din my ears with gaming , ftaking , heads or tails ; and , at ...
... infinite blifs , to which scarce one man , among a million , has the least claim ? If you are defirous of convincing me , take a different course ; and don't one moment din my ears with gaming , ftaking , heads or tails ; and , at ...
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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.