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... mentioned my Father to me but tears burst out , & to this day none of my old Neighbors meet me without expressing the most sensible demonstrations of the loss of him , & remembrance of his particular services to them & their great Loss ...
... mentioned my Father to me but tears burst out , & to this day none of my old Neighbors meet me without expressing the most sensible demonstrations of the loss of him , & remembrance of his particular services to them & their great Loss ...
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... mention was made of a curious manuscripts of Richard of Westminster , relating to the Roman antiquitys in Brittain . This year he cut out in wood a machine of his own invention ( or Orrery ) , which shows the true motion of the sun ...
... mention was made of a curious manuscripts of Richard of Westminster , relating to the Roman antiquitys in Brittain . This year he cut out in wood a machine of his own invention ( or Orrery ) , which shows the true motion of the sun ...
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... mention'd in Sacred writ , which he has drawn out in many separate volumes . He has trac'd the origin of Astronomy from the first ages of the world . He has trac'd the origin of Architecture , with many designs of the mosaic tabernacle ...
... mention'd in Sacred writ , which he has drawn out in many separate volumes . He has trac'd the origin of Astronomy from the first ages of the world . He has trac'd the origin of Architecture , with many designs of the mosaic tabernacle ...
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... mentioning to him the rehearsal of the Opera to night ( Rhadamisto ) ' he said he never was at more than one Opera . The first Act he heard with pleasure , the 2a stretch'd his patience , at the 3a he ran away . Bumper q . d . Bon pere ...
... mentioning to him the rehearsal of the Opera to night ( Rhadamisto ) ' he said he never was at more than one Opera . The first Act he heard with pleasure , the 2a stretch'd his patience , at the 3a he ran away . Bumper q . d . Bon pere ...
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... mentioned . A. Gordon has engraved it in his " Essay towards explaining the Hierogl . on the Coffin of a Mummy belonging to Capt . W. Lethieullier , Lond . , 1737. " It probably came from Sais . 10 See Stukeley's Common - place Book ...
... mentioned . A. Gordon has engraved it in his " Essay towards explaining the Hierogl . on the Coffin of a Mummy belonging to Capt . W. Lethieullier , Lond . , 1737. " It probably came from Sais . 10 See Stukeley's Common - place Book ...
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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.