The British Magazine and General Review of the Literature, Employment and Amusements of the Times, Volume 1T. Evans in Pater Noster Row, 1772 - Books |
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... motion ; fo far from being acquaint- ed with the true mundane fyftem , the luminaries of antiquity were incapable of arriving at any determinate know- ledge concerning the celestial bodies . The Zabaifts , if we believe Mai- monides ...
... motion ; fo far from being acquaint- ed with the true mundane fyftem , the luminaries of antiquity were incapable of arriving at any determinate know- ledge concerning the celestial bodies . The Zabaifts , if we believe Mai- monides ...
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... motion and running of the wheels , which is extremely curious , may be feen through the tranfparency of the dial . The fourth fide , next the tail of the elephant , is alfo of cryftal , through which the balance and other parts of the ...
... motion and running of the wheels , which is extremely curious , may be feen through the tranfparency of the dial . The fourth fide , next the tail of the elephant , is alfo of cryftal , through which the balance and other parts of the ...
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... motion is pleafing and curious . On the top of the pyramid is a gold fhell , with ornaments of ftones and pearls , in which is four dolphins , their heads looking upwards , and their tails meeting in the centre ; which , together with ...
... motion is pleafing and curious . On the top of the pyramid is a gold fhell , with ornaments of ftones and pearls , in which is four dolphins , their heads looking upwards , and their tails meeting in the centre ; which , together with ...
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... motion , as if hovering over them . The ftalks , the leaves , and grapes , are all of jewellers work , fet with many thousand ftones , and contrived with great ingenuity , fo as not to obftruct the ferpents and lizards in their motion ...
... motion , as if hovering over them . The ftalks , the leaves , and grapes , are all of jewellers work , fet with many thousand ftones , and contrived with great ingenuity , fo as not to obftruct the ferpents and lizards in their motion ...
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... motions for a long duration . You fay that you are accufed of violating the laws , by permitting your bailiffs to apprehend perfons for debt ; I accufe you of more than permitting , I fay you actually , by your own warrants , arrest and ...
... motions for a long duration . You fay that you are accufed of violating the laws , by permitting your bailiffs to apprehend perfons for debt ; I accufe you of more than permitting , I fay you actually , by your own warrants , arrest and ...
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Popular passages
Page 312 - But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
Page 108 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled : at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Page 320 - Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad : for who is able to judge this thy so great a people ? And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
Page 320 - Lord, my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father; and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
Page 108 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot ; who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 316 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come: that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Page 312 - Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Page 320 - And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour, so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
Page 316 - And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Page 134 - ... take and subscribe an oath to maintain and preserve inviolably the said settlement of the Church of England and the doctrine worship discipline and government thereof as by law established within...