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The Present State of the Republick of Letters. ... - Page 84
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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an ..., Volume 8

Biography - 1762 - 668 pages
...profound (Indies during the prime of his age, and afterwards engaged in an employment of great importance, and even quite taken up with the company, which his...life, nor of the want of a companion at home. He left 32,0001. at his death; but made no will, which mr. Fontenelle tells us was, becaufe he thought a legacy...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 5

Great Britain - 1791 - 354 pages
...profound ftudies during the prime of his age, and afterwards engaged in an employment of great importance, and even quite taken up with the company which his...he Was not • fenfible of any vacancy in life, nor ofL tire want of a companion at home. He left 32,000l. at his death, but made no will ; which Mr. Fontenelle...
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Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 13, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 450 pages
...profound iludies during the prime of his age, and afterwards engaged in an employment of great importance, and even quite taken up with the company which his merit drew to him, he was not fallible of any vacancy in life, nor of the want of a companion at home. He left 32,000!. at his death...
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The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Volume 1

Isaac Newton - Celestial mechanics - 1803 - 344 pages
...profound ftudies during the prime of his age, and afterwards engaged in an employment of great importance, and even quite taken up with the company which his...in life, nor of the want of a companion at home." Thefe, however, do not appear to he any fufficient reafons for his never marrying, if he had had an...
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The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Volume 1, Issue 1

Isaac Newton - Celestial mechanics - 1803 - 310 pages
...engaged in an employment of great importance, and even quite taken up with the company which his naeril drew to him., he was not fenfible of any vacancy in life, nor of the want of a companion at home." Thefe, however, do not appear to be any fufBcient realbns for his never marrying, if he had had an...
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The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].

Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - 496 pages
...profound studies during the prime of his age, and afterwards engaged in an employment of great importance, and even quite taken up with the company which his merit drew VOL. III. PC i to him, he was not sensible of any vacancy in life, nor of the want of a companion at...
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A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary: Containing an ..., Volume 2

Charles Hutton - Astronomy - 1815 - 686 pages
...Latin edition, with a Commentary, by and afterwards engaged in an employment of great importance,and even quite taken up with the company which his merit drew to him, he was not sensible of any vacancy in life, nor of the want of a companion at home." These however do not appear...
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British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ..., Volume 8

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 358 pages
...profound studies during the prime of his age, and afterwards engaged in an employment of great importance, and even quite taken up with the company which his merit drew to him, he was not sensible of any vacancy in life, nor the want of a companion at home." These, however, do not appear...
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American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of ..., Volume 8

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 356 pages
...profound studies during the prime of his age, and afterwards engaged in an employment of great importance, and even quite taken up with the company which his merit drew to him, he was not sensible of any vacancy in life, nor the want of a companion at home." These, however, do not appear...
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Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler

Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...during the prime of his life, and afterwards engaged in an employment of great importance, and ever quite taken up with the company which his merit drew to him, he was not sensible of any vacancy in life, nor of the want of domestic society. His niece, who with her husband...
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