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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... is in Lebanon , even unto the hyffop that springeth out of the wall , he spake also of beasts . and of fowl and of creeping , things , and of fishes & Kings 4:33 . OR , NATURE DISPLAY'D . BEING DISCOURSES On fuch PARTICULARS.
... is in Lebanon , even unto the hyffop that springeth out of the wall , he spake also of beasts . and of fowl and of creeping , things , and of fishes & Kings 4:33 . OR , NATURE DISPLAY'D . BEING DISCOURSES On fuch PARTICULARS.
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... fuch PARTICULARS of NATURAL HISTORY As were thought most proper To EXCITE the CURIOSITY , AND FORM the Minds of YOUTH . Illuftrated with COPPER PLATES . Tranflated from the Original French , By Mr. HUMPHREYS . The FOURTH EDITION ...
... fuch PARTICULARS of NATURAL HISTORY As were thought most proper To EXCITE the CURIOSITY , AND FORM the Minds of YOUTH . Illuftrated with COPPER PLATES . Tranflated from the Original French , By Mr. HUMPHREYS . The FOURTH EDITION ...
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... fuch by a disagreeable Verfion . As the Mind of Your Royal High- ness has 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 ...
... fuch by a disagreeable Verfion . As the Mind of Your Royal High- ness has 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 ...
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... fuch a Choice would have been with the Defign we propose to pursue . Had we intended to establish Maxims for the Regula- tion of Behaviour , or to criticize the Imperfe- Etions of Mankind , we might , with Success , bave borrowed , from ...
... fuch a Choice would have been with the Defign we propose to pursue . Had we intended to establish Maxims for the Regula- tion of Behaviour , or to criticize the Imperfe- Etions of Mankind , we might , with Success , bave borrowed , from ...
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... fuch a Promife ? To think and Speak like them , we must be what they them- Jelves were . Befide , they are Perfons who are not eafily accommodated to the Level of all Sorts of Readers . Their Conferences must be fublime , and have the ...
... fuch a Promife ? To think and Speak like them , we must be what they them- Jelves were . Befide , they are Perfons who are not eafily accommodated to the Level of all Sorts of Readers . Their Conferences must be fublime , and have the ...
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