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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesancient appears argument attention Bacon Battle of Hastings body cafe called cause character Christianity church consequence Cornwall Dalmatia divine doctrine Earl effects endeavours England English equal exist fame farther favour fays fense genius give gout Greece hath honour House of Stuart human ideas Iliad impenetrable Ingulph Isocrates king late laws letter liberty Lord Lysias mankind manner marriage matter means merit mind mode moral motion nations natural philosophy nature neral never Newton object observed occasion opinion particular philosophical poem poet poetical poetry Pope present Priestley principles propriety prove quantity reader reason religion remarks respect Saxon sentiments shew Sir Isaac Sir Isaac Newton solid spirit substance supposed Sweden Table free thing thole thought tion translation treats true truth virtue Westmorland whole words writer Popular passagesPage 225 - And it came to pass, that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. Page 219 - Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Page 37 - Seek ye to thrive ? in flattery deal ; Your scorn, your hate, with that conceal. Seem only to regard your friends, But use them for your private ends. Stint not to truth the flow of wit ; Be prompt to lie whene'er 'tis fit. Bend all your force to spatter merit ; Scandal is conversation's spirit. Page 60 - Moreover, that the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated. But whether the parts so distinguished, and not yet divided, may, by the powers of Nature, be actually divided and separated from one another, we cannot certainly determine. Page 177 - Comestor's Scholastic History, in French, which, as it is recorded in a blank page at the beginning, was taken from the king of France at the battle of Poitiers ; and being purchased by William Montague, earl of Salisbury, for one hundred marcs, was ordered to be sold by the last will of his countess, Elizabeth, for forty livres. Page 164 - Center moves on uniformly in a right Line drawn in the Plane of their circular Motion; the Sum of the Motions of the two Globes, as often as the Globes are in the right Line described by their common... Page 361 - For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. Page 177 - Even so late as the year 1471, when Louis XI borrowed the works- of Rasis, the Arabian physician, from the faculty of medicine in Paris, he not only deposited in pledge a considerable quantity of plate, but was obliged to procure a nobleman to join with him as surety in a deed, binding himself under a great forfeiture to restore it. Page 93 - England had now assumed a new aspect. The maxim of hereditary, indefeasible right was at length renounced by a free parliament. The power of the crown was acknowledged to flow from no other fountain than that of a contract with the people. Allegiance and protection were declared reciprocal ties depending upon each other*. The representatives of the nation made a regular claim of rights in behalf of their constituents; and William III. ascended the throne in consequence of an express capitulation... Page 55 - ... in all that are sensible, therefore we ascribe it universally to all others also. That abundance of bodies are hard, we learn by experience; and because the hardness of the whole arises from the hardness of the parts, we therefore justly infer the hardness of the undivided particles not only of the bodies we feel but of all others. Bibliographic information
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