Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urnsW. Pickering, 1835 |
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... notwithstanding , in submission to future information , we are unsatisfied unto great dubitation . For first , if there were a determinate prepotency in the right , and such as ariseth from a constant root in nature , we might expect ...
... notwithstanding , in submission to future information , we are unsatisfied unto great dubitation . For first , if there were a determinate prepotency in the right , and such as ariseth from a constant root in nature , we might expect ...
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... possessed with this reason , we committed some unto the water without lungs , which notwithstanding floated with the others ; and to complete the experiment , although we took out the guts CHAP . VI . ] 25 AND COMMON ERRORS .
... possessed with this reason , we committed some unto the water without lungs , which notwithstanding floated with the others ; and to complete the experiment , although we took out the guts CHAP . VI . ] 25 AND COMMON ERRORS .
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... notwithstanding a great deal of waste by a thick vapour that issueth during the working : for we cannot find it to hold either in iron or copper , which is dissolved with less ebullition ; and hereof we made trial in scales of good ...
... notwithstanding a great deal of waste by a thick vapour that issueth during the working : for we cannot find it to hold either in iron or copper , which is dissolved with less ebullition ; and hereof we made trial in scales of good ...
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... notwithstanding will not sufficiently determine the grounds hereof , that custom having an elder era than this chronology affordeth . For although the age of Gregory extend above a thou- sand , yet is this custom mentioned by Apuleius ...
... notwithstanding will not sufficiently determine the grounds hereof , that custom having an elder era than this chronology affordeth . For although the age of Gregory extend above a thou- sand , yet is this custom mentioned by Apuleius ...
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... insufferable - Wr . enoughe , leaving the cause to further rank , & c . ] Which Mr. Fulham inquisition . - Wr . confirmd as above , p . 36. This is From whence , notwithstanding , we cannot infer an inward CHAP . X. ] 41 AND COMMON ERRORS .
... insufferable - Wr . enoughe , leaving the cause to further rank , & c . ] Which Mr. Fulham inquisition . - Wr . confirmd as above , p . 36. This is From whence , notwithstanding , we cannot infer an inward CHAP . X. ] 41 AND COMMON ERRORS .
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Page 132 - And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord's and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
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