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... to say all that his hopes prompt him to ; and leaves his book to speak for itself , and prove its worth , by its actual effects on the rising generation . D. B. CONTENTS OF THIS VOLUME . Introductory Particulars Of the Simple vi PREFACE .
... to say all that his hopes prompt him to ; and leaves his book to speak for itself , and prove its worth , by its actual effects on the rising generation . D. B. CONTENTS OF THIS VOLUME . Introductory Particulars Of the Simple vi PREFACE .
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... rise out of the water , sink the parts that are immersed within it . 13. Hunting is performed by most savage na- tions on foot , and with many of them the principal weapon is the club . - Therefore the swiftest and strongest usually ...
... rise out of the water , sink the parts that are immersed within it . 13. Hunting is performed by most savage na- tions on foot , and with many of them the principal weapon is the club . - Therefore the swiftest and strongest usually ...
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... rise out of the water , sinl the parts that are immersed within it . 13. Hunting is performed by most savage na tions on foot , and with many of them the principa weapon is the club . - Therefore the swiftest and strongest usually ...
... rise out of the water , sinl the parts that are immersed within it . 13. Hunting is performed by most savage na tions on foot , and with many of them the principa weapon is the club . - Therefore the swiftest and strongest usually ...
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... rising spires ; With quicken'd pace successive rollers move , And these retain , and those extend , the rove ; Then fly the spoles ; the rapid axles glow ; While slowly circumvolves the lab'ring wheel below . 122. Civilized man does not ...
... rising spires ; With quicken'd pace successive rollers move , And these retain , and those extend , the rove ; Then fly the spoles ; the rapid axles glow ; While slowly circumvolves the lab'ring wheel below . 122. Civilized man does not ...
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... rise in it about 29 inches ; or if placed in water , 33 feet of water will rise in it , the weight of 33 feet of water being equal to 29 inches of quicksilver . The rise of those fluids in such a tube , is caused by the pressure of the ...
... rise in it about 29 inches ; or if placed in water , 33 feet of water will rise in it , the weight of 33 feet of water being equal to 29 inches of quicksilver . The rise of those fluids in such a tube , is caused by the pressure of the ...
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Page 29 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Page 29 - That levying money for or to the use of the Crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Page 91 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew?
Page 78 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures...
Page 29 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Page 29 - Political liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights of every man, has no other limits than those which are necessary to secure to every other man the free exercise of the same rights ; and these limits are determinable only by the law.
Page 60 - Horrid with frost and turbulent with storm, Blows autumn, and his golden fruits, away : Then melts into the spring : soft spring, with breath Favonian, from warm chambers of the south, Recalls the first.
Page 78 - Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Page 78 - Fierce Winter sweeps them from the face of day. Even so luxurious men, unheeding, pass An idle summer life in fortune's shine, A season's glitter ! Thus they flutter on From toy to toy, from vanity to vice; Till, blown away by death, oblivion comes Behind, and strikes them from the book of life.