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... greatest Actions Doe . Whoever would Deposed Truth advance Into the Throne usurp'd from it , Must feel at first the Blows of Ignorance , And the harp Points of Envious Wit . So when by various turns of the Celestial Dance , In many ...
... greatest Actions Doe . Whoever would Deposed Truth advance Into the Throne usurp'd from it , Must feel at first the Blows of Ignorance , And the harp Points of Envious Wit . So when by various turns of the Celestial Dance , In many ...
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... ping the Right of choosing Emperors , and by the invasions of Barbarous Nations , which overwhelm'd the greatest part of Europe . Amidst these distractions , it was impossible for any thing of this Nature to it 12 The HISTORY of the.
... ping the Right of choosing Emperors , and by the invasions of Barbarous Nations , which overwhelm'd the greatest part of Europe . Amidst these distractions , it was impossible for any thing of this Nature to it 12 The HISTORY of the.
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... greatest affairs are manag'd by the violence of popular assemblies , and those govern'd by the most plausible speakers : bu- fie themselves chiefly about Eloquence ; they who follow a Court , especially intend the ornament of Language ...
... greatest affairs are manag'd by the violence of popular assemblies , and those govern'd by the most plausible speakers : bu- fie themselves chiefly about Eloquence ; they who follow a Court , especially intend the ornament of Language ...
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... greatest part of the men of Art , and rea- fon , to addict themselves to them while the search into severer knowledge has been lookt on , as a study out of the way , fitter for a melancholy humorist , or a retir'd weak spirit , then to ...
... greatest part of the men of Art , and rea- fon , to addict themselves to them while the search into severer knowledge has been lookt on , as a study out of the way , fitter for a melancholy humorist , or a retir'd weak spirit , then to ...
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... publick Liberty , turn the greatest Tyrants them- felves . The first part of these mens performance is very much to the prais'd : They have made the ground ground open , and cleer , for us : they 28 The HISTORY of the.
... publick Liberty , turn the greatest Tyrants them- felves . The first part of these mens performance is very much to the prais'd : They have made the ground ground open , and cleer , for us : they 28 The HISTORY of the.
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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.