Spectacle de la Nature: Or, Nature Display'd. Being Discourses on Such Particulars of Natural History as Were Thought Most Proper to Excite the Curiosity, and Form the Minds of Youth. ... Translated from the Original French, by Mr. Humphreys |
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... been watered with the pureft Streams that Learning could dispense and as you have long been habituated to those Institutions which render a BRITISH FIBRARY young young Prince the Darling of those who have the Honour DEDICATION .
... been watered with the pureft Streams that Learning could dispense and as you have long been habituated to those Institutions which render a BRITISH FIBRARY young young Prince the Darling of those who have the Honour DEDICATION .
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... young Prince the Darling of those who have the Honour to approach him , there is fufficient Reason to believe , that any generous Attempt to pro- mote useful Knowledge , and infpire the Sons of Men with Gratitude to their great Creator ...
... young Prince the Darling of those who have the Honour to approach him , there is fufficient Reason to believe , that any generous Attempt to pro- mote useful Knowledge , and infpire the Sons of Men with Gratitude to their great Creator ...
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... young Perfons , and giving them an early Habit of Thinking ; there are none that produce more fure and lafting Effects than Curiofity . The Defire of Knowledge is as natural to us as Reafon , it exerts itself with Force and Viva- city ...
... young Perfons , and giving them an early Habit of Thinking ; there are none that produce more fure and lafting Effects than Curiofity . The Defire of Knowledge is as natural to us as Reafon , it exerts itself with Force and Viva- city ...
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... young Perfons fenfible what Treafures they poffels unenjoyed , and to prefent to their Obfervation those things , that Distance , Minuteness , or Inattention may have concealed from them . Inftead of paffing methodically , from general ...
... young Perfons fenfible what Treafures they poffels unenjoyed , and to prefent to their Obfervation those things , that Distance , Minuteness , or Inattention may have concealed from them . Inftead of paffing methodically , from general ...
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... young People with a free Converfation , fuited to their Abilities , without perplexing them with Characters too strongly marked , or indulging a Vien of Pleafantry that would have too much the Air of a Theatre , we judged it proper ...
... young People with a free Converfation , fuited to their Abilities , without perplexing them with Characters too strongly marked , or indulging a Vien of Pleafantry that would have too much the Air of a Theatre , we judged it proper ...
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