The Family Memoirs of the Rev. William Stukeley, M.D.: And the Antiquarian and Other Correspondence of William Stukeley, Roger & Samuel Gale, Etc, Volume 76Society, 1882 - Great Britain |
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Page 401 - with on what occurred in reading, which is of great use to one who lives retired in the country. But what avails complaint ? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me. May God so teach us all to number our
Page 379 - of the planets' periods or years," are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun. From the second of these Laws, it
Page 133 - he was a bold, insolent man, with a very small measure of religion, virtue, learning, or good sense ; but he resolved to force himself into popularity and preferment, by the most petulant railings at dissenters and low churchmen, in several sermons and
Page 382 - failed to dispel the illusion which attributes solidity to that more condensed part of the head, which appears to the naked eye as a nucleus, though it is true that in some, a very minute stellar point has been seen, indicating the existence of a solid body.
Page 104 - only Breakfast, and away. Others to Dinner stay, and are Full Fed. The oldest Man but sups, and goes to bed. Long is his Life, who
Page 133 - an ignorant, impudent incendiary, a man who was the scorn even of those who made use of him as a tool." Bishop Burnet says, " he was a bold, insolent man, with a very small measure of religion, virtue, learning, or good sense ; but he resolved to force himself into popularity and preferment, by the most petulant railings at dissenters and
Page 447 - are of that standing, to take the degree of BD But the Oath of Allegiance is required to be taken with every degree ; so that after the Revolution twenty-four of the Fellows not coming into the Oath of Allegiance, and the Statutes requiring them to commence BD, they were constrained to part with their Fellowships.
Page 283 - says Boswell, •' that Johnson, one day, knocked Osborne down in his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck.
Page 283 - impertinent to me. and I beat him. But it was not in his shop, it was in my own chamber.
Page 157 - calculated the archbishop's nativity, from which he pretends both to have predicted his disease, and to have effected his cure. He was looked upon as the first of astrologers, and has been accused of impiety and atheism. Archbishop Parker has defended him with great ability, in