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1 Int | in England, and the two years spent there had great influence 2 Int | later development. Some years after his return he became 3 I | after having traded thirty years, had the wisdom to prescribe 4 III | corruption about sixteen hundred years. But there were always a 5 III | He was about twenty-five years of age, irreproachable in 6 IV | William Penn, at twenty years of age, happening to meet 7 IV | After having resided some years in Pennsylvania he left 8 V | Tories in the four last years of Queen Anne; but was productive 9 IX | enslaved for a long series of years by the Romans, the Saxons, 10 XI | was suspended for several years, which thinned very considerably 11 XI | small-pox in their infant years. This they did by inoculating 12 XI | nation will imitate ten years hence this practice of the 13 XI | inoculation these hundred years, a circumstance that argues 14 XII | hardly found in a thousand years, is the truly great man. 15 XII | himself was a great many years Lord Chancellor under King 16 XII | despised in his younger years the thing called philosophy 17 XIV | great Galileo, fourscore years of age, was groaning in 18 XIV | age of fourscore and five years.~It was his peculiar felicity, 19 XIV | during the long course of years he enjoyed, was never sensible 20 XIV | infatuated for two thousand years. He taught his contemporaries 21 XIV | little work was, during some years, a complete system of physics; 22 XV | revolutions in nineteen years, and those of the earth 23 XV | for so great a series of years), which was the terror of 24 XV | take up above five hundred years in their revolution.~The 25 XV | hundred and seventy-five years. As to Mr. Whiston, he affirmed 26 XVI | in less than twenty-five years. How great would have been 27 XVII | being then twenty-three years of age, had invented a general 28 XVII | have been demonstrated many years, and are no less incomprehensible 29 XVII | been speaking of.~For many years the invention of this famous 30 XVII | the world was five hundred years younger than chronologers 31 XVII | to consist of a hundred years. In this manner they computed 32 XVII | three hundred and forty years from Menes' reign to that 33 XVII | each to consist of forty years.~Now, here, both the Egyptians 34 XVII | about a hundred and twenty years; but three reigns are far 35 XVII | should he allow three hundred years to these nine monarchs. 36 XVII | generation takes about thirty-six years; every reign is, one with 37 XVII | Conqueror to George I., the years of whose reigns added together 38 XVII | hundred and forty-eight years; which, being divided equally 39 XVII | one a reign of twenty-one years and a half very near. Sixty-three 40 XVII | another, reigned about twenty years each. This is the usual 41 XVII | allowed too great a number of years, and consequently some years 42 XVII | years, and consequently some years must be subtracted from 43 XVII | unknown till within these late years. Its poles have a very slow 44 XVII | in threescore and twelve years the difference is found 45 XVII | Thus after seventy-two years the colure of the vernal 46 XVII | degree eastward every hundred years. In this manner they were 47 XVII | equivalent to two hundred years; consequently the astronomer 48 XVII | observation lived just so many years before me. It is certain 49 XVII | mistook just fifty-four years; hence it is that the ancients, 50 XVII | consist of thirty-six thousand years. But the moderns are sensible 51 XVII | twenty-five thousand nine hundred years. It may be proper to observe 52 XVII | equivalent to seventy-two years; consequently, from the 53 XVII | seven times seventy-two years, which make five hundred 54 XVII | make five hundred and four years, and not seven hundred years, 55 XVII | years, and not seven hundred years, as the Greeks computed. 56 XVII | placed about nine hundred years before Christ, and not about 57 XVII | not so old by five hundred years as it was generally supposed 58 XVIII| being a hundred and fifty years since they were first drawn) 59 XVIII| cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure 60 XIX | England, to spend three years in London, to make yourself 61 XXIV | Academy of Sciences many years before us, but then it is