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Page 118
... glad of so trifling a handle to show their envy & malice . Upon burgessing at Stamford , Noel and his jacobite party took the same handle . I might tell them I bury'd a bullfinch in my garden in Stamford that dy'd there , & it would ...
... glad of so trifling a handle to show their envy & malice . Upon burgessing at Stamford , Noel and his jacobite party took the same handle . I might tell them I bury'd a bullfinch in my garden in Stamford that dy'd there , & it would ...
Page 142
... glad to keep correspondence with you . As for that kindnesse you tell me of , I wish it had been worth your acceptance , & proportionable to that assistance which you have ever given me in our young days at school , & the respects which ...
... glad to keep correspondence with you . As for that kindnesse you tell me of , I wish it had been worth your acceptance , & proportionable to that assistance which you have ever given me in our young days at school , & the respects which ...
Page 145
... glad you are in good health . Since I wrote to you last I met with your tayler , who sayes your clothes are soe layd in , that you may get them let out as much as you please , and the sooner you doe it the better , before they are thred ...
... glad you are in good health . Since I wrote to you last I met with your tayler , who sayes your clothes are soe layd in , that you may get them let out as much as you please , and the sooner you doe it the better , before they are thred ...
Page 146
... glad that a person I respected should enjoy the school I was doubly engaged to wish well to . Since the receipt of your letter I'me confounded , & all I can at present answer to it is , that if I be chose a ffeoffee , as I have no great ...
... glad that a person I respected should enjoy the school I was doubly engaged to wish well to . Since the receipt of your letter I'me confounded , & all I can at present answer to it is , that if I be chose a ffeoffee , as I have no great ...
Page 148
... glad ; for you may depend I shall omitt nothing in my power to serve you . The Trustees are Mr. Bertye , Sir Edward Coke , Sir John Newton , & Mr. John Coke . If their names must be in , the forme you sent must be altered . And they ...
... glad ; for you may depend I shall omitt nothing in my power to serve you . The Trustees are Mr. Bertye , Sir Edward Coke , Sir John Newton , & Mr. John Coke . If their names must be in , the forme you sent must be altered . And they ...
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Page 419 - The squares of the periods of revolution of any two planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
Page 149 - a bold insolent man, with a very small measure of religion, virtue, learning, or good sense ; but he resolved to force himself into popularity and preferment, by the most petulant railings at dissenters and low churchmen, in several sermons and libels, written without either chasteness of style or liveliness of expression.
Page 55 - And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly : the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
Page 166 - May 1731, he married Lady Elizabeth Lee, daughter of the Earl of Lichfield, and widow of Colonel Lee.
Page 169 - OPINION OF DR. STUKELEY. Oct. 9, 1722. " He is making searches about the Roman ways. He is a very fancifull man, and the things he hath publish'd are built upon fancy. He is looked upon as a man of no great authority, and his reputation dwindles every day, as I have learned from very good hands.
Page 313 - In 1721 he accompanied Dr. Sherrard to England, where he spent the remainder of his days. Soon after his arrival he undertook a new edition of " Ray's Synopsis ;" and was appointed the first botanical professor at Oxford on Sherrard's foundation. He wrote " Hortus Elthamensis
Page 62 - Jan. 6, 1721. I was made a Freemason at the Salutation Tav., Tavistock Street, with Mr. Collins, Capt. Rowe who made the famous diving Engine. The Directors late paramount, now despoil'd &c. Mr. Kemps antiquitys sold. Jan. 26. Mr. Le Neve Norroy & I took some transcriptions out of Domesday book.