The Present State of the Republick of Letters. ...William and John Innys, at the West End of St. Paul's., 1728 - Bibliography |
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Page 149 - Hamilton ; who spent his time there from the year 1688 to 1723, trading and travelling by sea and land, to most of the Countries and Islands of Commerce and Navigation, between the Cape of Good Hope and the Island of Japan.
Page 371 - Shall flop my courfe, or damp my flight. II. Shall I, obfcure or difefteem'd, Of vulgar rank henceforth be deem'd ? Or vainly toil my name to fave From dark oblivion and the grave? No — He can never wholly die, Secure of immortality, Whom Britain's Cowper condefcends To own, and numbers with his friendst III. Tis m'Tis done — I fcorn mean honours now ; No common wreaths fhall bind my brow.. Whether the Mufe vouchfafe t...
Page 50 - ... no more notion than a blind man " hath of light. And now that I am fallen
Page 300 - de," who published at York, 1728, a work entitled General Instruction : Divine, Moral, Historical, £c. Shewing the Progress of Religion from the Creation to this Time, and to the End of the World.
Page 155 - When the man sees his spouse, and likes her, they agree on the price and term of weeks, months or years, and then appear before the cadjee or judge of the place, and enter their names and terms in his book, which costs but a shilling, or thereabout.
Page 155 - Mahomet his prophet and beft beloved fervant ; and carrying a piece of iron like the tooth of an harrow in their right hand, they ftrike it with great force into the cavity of the eye, and yet the eye is not blemifhed, nor the eye-lids, or...
Page 207 - This he faw was a profcffed apology for idolatry, and he ftudied it with no other view, than as it led to the difcovery of its original : for he fpent fome time upon it, before ever he had a thought of extracting from it footfteps of the hiftory of the world before the flood. While other divines therefore...
Page 384 - Greek writers, denotes the point of one to the other and with the ends folded back from the left to the right and from the right to the left, and covering the bareness of his neck.
Page 160 - Batavia illustrata: or, A view of the policy and commerce of the United Provinces; particularly of Holland. With an enquiry into the alliances of the States general, with the emperor, France, Spain, and Great Britain.
Page 207 - James, occafioned him to turn his thoughts to enquiring, by what fteps and methods idolatry got ground in the world. The oldeft account of this he believed he found in Sanchoniatho's fragment.