Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urnsW. Pickering, 1835 |
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... speak strictly , a man that holds his breath is weightier while his lungs are full , than upon expiration . For a bladder blown is weightier than one empty ; and if it con- tain a quart , expressed and emptied it will abate about a ...
... speak strictly , a man that holds his breath is weightier while his lungs are full , than upon expiration . For a bladder blown is weightier than one empty ; and if it con- tain a quart , expressed and emptied it will abate about a ...
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... speak it , they forbear not to boast that there are at present many thousand Jews in Spain , France , and England , and some dispensed withal even to the degree of priesthood ; it is a matter very considerable , and could they be ...
... speak it , they forbear not to boast that there are at present many thousand Jews in Spain , France , and England , and some dispensed withal even to the degree of priesthood ; it is a matter very considerable , and could they be ...
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... speak- ing of the isles of Scotland , amongst the rest sets down the Isle of Pygmies . Again . ] This paragraph is taken almost verbatim from Cardan in the place cited below . - Wr . 9 Cardan . ] Rightly does he quote Cardan , who in ...
... speak- ing of the isles of Scotland , amongst the rest sets down the Isle of Pygmies . Again . ] This paragraph is taken almost verbatim from Cardan in the place cited below . - Wr . 9 Cardan . ] Rightly does he quote Cardan , who in ...
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... speak indifferently I find no satisfaction , nor any sufficiency in the received grounds to establish a rational fear . Now herein to omit astrological considerations ( which are but rarely introduced , ) the popular foundation whereby ...
... speak indifferently I find no satisfaction , nor any sufficiency in the received grounds to establish a rational fear . Now herein to omit astrological considerations ( which are but rarely introduced , ) the popular foundation whereby ...
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... speaking , saith , it ebbs and flows no less than thrice a day , terque die revomit fluctus , iterúmque resorbet . And so when ' t is said by Horace , feli- ces ter et amplius , the exposition is sufficient , if we conceive no more than ...
... speaking , saith , it ebbs and flows no less than thrice a day , terque die revomit fluctus , iterúmque resorbet . And so when ' t is said by Horace , feli- ces ter et amplius , the exposition is sufficient , if we conceive no more than ...
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