London Review of English and Foreign Literature, Volume 6Cox and Bigg, 1767 |
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... Use among the Indians , and other Eaftern Nations , long before the Sexagefimal Notation was introduced by Ptolemy , in the Time of M. Aurelius . After this Time , Decimals began to be frequently ufed in Arithmetical Calculations , and ...
... Use among the Indians , and other Eaftern Nations , long before the Sexagefimal Notation was introduced by Ptolemy , in the Time of M. Aurelius . After this Time , Decimals began to be frequently ufed in Arithmetical Calculations , and ...
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... use for it , Dr. Higgins denies . But , to take leave of our author's intro- duction , and come at length to his Obfervations on Light ; the profeffed fubject of his Effay.And here again , we cannot help conceiving he makes a falfe ftop ...
... use for it , Dr. Higgins denies . But , to take leave of our author's intro- duction , and come at length to his Obfervations on Light ; the profeffed fubject of his Effay.And here again , we cannot help conceiving he makes a falfe ftop ...
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... use the phrafeology of these writers ) muft d'off his hat , and de- mean himself , with fomething more than Chriftian humility , to the patron of his parifh , as well as to every bumpkin Squire in his neighbourhood . - We fhall ...
... use the phrafeology of these writers ) muft d'off his hat , and de- mean himself , with fomething more than Chriftian humility , to the patron of his parifh , as well as to every bumpkin Squire in his neighbourhood . - We fhall ...
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... use the jargon of the times , give the ton to fyftems of philofophy as well as to fafhions in drefs . How elfe , in the name of common - fenfe , could the nonsense of Reid , Ofwald , and Beattie , have , under that plaufible title , fo ...
... use the jargon of the times , give the ton to fyftems of philofophy as well as to fafhions in drefs . How elfe , in the name of common - fenfe , could the nonsense of Reid , Ofwald , and Beattie , have , under that plaufible title , fo ...
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... use of only a few of the out - lines of the drawing to re- prefent any thing by . Afterwards they reduced these to characters defigning them to denote words . At length they hit upon a method of making a connexion of them , by fomewhat ...
... use of only a few of the out - lines of the drawing to re- prefent any thing by . Afterwards they reduced these to characters defigning them to denote words . At length they hit upon a method of making a connexion of them , by fomewhat ...
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Page 266 - And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. Which of you convinceth me of sin ?. And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me ? He that is of God heareth God's words : ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
Page 266 - But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
Page 266 - Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me : for I proceeded forth, and came from God ; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Page 265 - Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true : for I know whence I came, and whither I go ; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.
Page 265 - I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins : for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
Page 277 - He made him ride on the high places of the earth, That he might eat the increase of the fields; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock...
Page 264 - A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
Page 267 - Yet ye have not known him: but I know him : and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you; but I know him, and keep his saying. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it, and was glad.
Page 265 - Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
Page 263 - For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not : but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.