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Page 509 - printed at Milan in the same year, are not to be found in this list; besides several others which were printed at the end of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth, century. We make these remarks merely for the purpose of preventing this catalogue, large and comprehensive as it is, from being
Page 129 - power and jurisdiction of Parliament," to use the •** words of that great constitutional lawyer Sir Edward Coke, in his 4th Institute, p. 36, " is so transcendent and absolute; as it cannot be confined either for causes or persons within any bounds ; and
Page 404 - That the bleak air, thy boisterous chamberlain, Will put thy shirt on -warm f Will these MOIST trees, That have outliv'd the eagle, page thy heels, And skip when thou pointst out ?" Sir Thomas Hanmer for moist reads very elegantly, says
Page 35 - fame, admired by the expert in art, and by the learned in science, courted by the great, caressed by Sovereign Powers, and celebrated by distinguished poets, his native humility, modesty, and candour, never forsook him, even on surprise or provocation ; nor was the least degree of arrogance or assumption visible to the most scrutinizing eye, in any
Page 110 - to the few that are wise to correct their credulity. Belief is an act of reason, and superior reason may, therefore, dictate to the weak. In running the mind along the long list of sincere and devout Christians, I cannot help lamenting, that Newton had not lived to this day, to have had his
Page 150 - of those qualities which make a perfect portrait, than any other I have ever seen: they arc correctly drawn, both head and figures, and well coloured ; and have great variety of action, characters, and countenances, and those so lively and truly expressing what they are about, that the spectator has nothing to wish for.
Page 111 - immortal song; and though shut out from all recurrence to them, he poured them forth from the stores of a memory rich with all that man ever knew ; and laid them in their order as the illustration of that real and exalted faith, the unquestionable source of that
Page 194 - small parts, but as generated by continued motion, by means of which they increase or decrease, as a line by the motion of a point, a surface by the motion of a line, and a solid by the motion of a surface, which is no new principle in geometry, having been
Page 136 - of the Widows and Dowagers of the temporal Peers of this Land : And that the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being, or the Speaker of the Lords House for the time being
Page 366 - consideration have been given to those sciences which, as Lord Bacon says, " have better intelligence and confederacy with the imagination of man than with his reason."—The many contradictory hypotheses and opposite systems, likewise, of learned men, given without comment, must strike the reader