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... seems to me ) Has still bin kept in Nonage till of late , Nor manag'd or enjoy'd his vast Estate : Three or four thousand years one would have thought , To ripeness and perfection might have brought A Science so well bred and nurst ...
... seems to me ) Has still bin kept in Nonage till of late , Nor manag'd or enjoy'd his vast Estate : Three or four thousand years one would have thought , To ripeness and perfection might have brought A Science so well bred and nurst ...
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... seem not well to agree with the last : But those having paß'd the Preß so long ago , were out of my power of changing them ; and therefore I will refer it to his kindneß , to do it for me . I must also acquaint him , That in the Title ...
... seem not well to agree with the last : But those having paß'd the Preß so long ago , were out of my power of changing them ; and therefore I will refer it to his kindneß , to do it for me . I must also acquaint him , That in the Title ...
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... seem'd to speak plainer about the Divine Nature ; and also , because the sweetness , and powerfulness of Plato's Writings , did serve as well to make them popular speakers , as disputers . Having thus provided them- felves against their ...
... seem'd to speak plainer about the Divine Nature ; and also , because the sweetness , and powerfulness of Plato's Writings , did serve as well to make them popular speakers , as disputers . Having thus provided them- felves against their ...
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... seem to me to have run into the same mistake , for which we chiefly complain d against those Antients , whose Authority they destroy'd . The greatest occasion of our dissenting from the Greek Philosophers , and espe- cially from ...
... seem to me to have run into the same mistake , for which we chiefly complain d against those Antients , whose Authority they destroy'd . The greatest occasion of our dissenting from the Greek Philosophers , and espe- cially from ...
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... seem to darken their own glory . This is a Temper of mind , of all others the most pernicious ; to which I may chiefly attribute the slowness of the increase of knowledge amongst men . For what great things can be expected , if mens ...
... seem to darken their own glory . This is a Temper of mind , of all others the most pernicious ; to which I may chiefly attribute the slowness of the increase of knowledge amongst men . For what great things can be expected , if mens ...
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Page 111 - They have exacted from all their members, a close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive expressions; clear senses; a native easiness: bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants, before that, of Wits, or Scholars.
Page 35 - I shall only mention one great Man, who had the true Imagination of the whole extent of this Enterprise, as it is now set on foot; and that is, the Lord Bacon.
Page 306 - ... they commonly let them continue there six weeks or two months, in which time they will be of a dark green.
Page 58 - This custom was observed once, if not twice, a week in term time, till they were scattered by the miserable distractions of that fatal year, till the continuance of their meetings there might have made them run the hazard of the fate of Archimedes: for then the place of their meeting was made a quarter for soldiers.
Page 41 - I shall not stick to say, that such a project is now seasonable to be set on foot, and may make a great Reformation in the manner of our Speaking, and Writing.
Page 42 - I dare pronounce, that our Speech would quickly arrive at as much plenty, as it is capable to receive; and at the greatest smoothness, which its derivation from the rough German will allow it.
Page 58 - Philosophy had its share, in the benefits of that glorious Action : for the Royal Society had its beginning in the wonderful pacifick year 1660.