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1 Int | work. He died at Paris, May 30, 1778.~It will be seen 2 I | and this purely, that it may be a perpetual warning to 3 II | publish the Gospel truths, he may feel inwardly, such a one 4 II | feel inwardly, such a one may be assured that he is inspired 5 II | ideas as thy affections may deserve; if thou livest 6 III | temptation of those that may or do feed thee and prompt 7 IV | guess what fate Quakerism may have in America, but I perceive 8 V | whom liberty is natural, may go to heaven his own way.~ 9 VII | are two ways by which men may be wanting in respect to 10 VII | religion, or old one, that may be revived, will meet with 11 X | terminating in ac or ille, may strut about, and cry, "Such 12 X | my rank and figure!" and may look down upon a trader 13 XI | small-pox. But that the reader may be able to judge whether 14 XI | at every discovery that may be of advantage to its commerce. 15 XI | possibly our countrymen may introduce inoculation three 16 XII | Lord Bacon, whether there may not be a kind of magnetic 17 XIII | virtuous, whatever substance it may be made of. It is a clock 18 XIII | whether these properties may be joined to thought. As 19 XIII | instinct in them. But why may not God, if He pleases, 20 XIV | in his last moments.~We may admire Sir Isaac Newton 21 XIV | make such a declaration may justly be reproached with 22 XV | square of the times. Why may not this power which causes 23 XV | mountains, why, said Sir Isaac, may not this power extend as 24 XV | principle (whatever it be) may we not conclude very naturally 25 XV | appear again the 17th of May, 1719. Not a single astronomer 26 XV | abilities that I can pretend to may, if they can, find out."~" 27 XV | comprehend?"~"I have taught you," may Sir Isaac rejoin, "that 28 XV | name I give it?"~Vortices may be called an occult quality 29 XVII | curve; and that a curve may become infinitely less than 30 XVII | viz., that curve lines may always be made to pass between 31 XVII | thousand nine hundred years. It may be proper to observe transiently 32 XVII | these the victory is due, may perhaps only leave the dispute 33 XVIII| impertinences which a poet may have thrown out; but that 34 XVIII| that greater advantage may be reaped from a dozen verses 35 XVIII| soliloquy in Hamlet, which you may remember is as follows:~" 36 XVIII| sleep of death, what dreams may come When we have shuffled 37 XVIII| on such an occasion one may justly affirm, that the 38 XIX | greatest force and spirit. It may be proper to observe that 39 XIX | how ridiculous soever it may be thought, is yet worth 40 XIX | and such-like characters, may with as much propriety be 41 XX | perhaps the mode of thinking may be revived in a little time. 42 XX | flexible a disposition, may be moulded into such a variety 43 XX | near five or six thousand may in their turns aspire to 44 XX | how disagreeable soever it may be to him; and this study 45 XX | delicacy and politeness, may vie with anything we meet 46 XXI | deny So owned a truth? That may be, sir, do I.~* * * * * * * *~ 47 XXII | flute. His compositions may be easily translated, because 48 XXII | I have given you of it), may be compared to the description 49 XXII | a dim and confused light may have sunk the credit of 50 XXIII| sterling to any person who may discover the longitude, 51 XXIV | Boileau, Mr. Congreve, who may be called their Moliere, 52 XXIV | adds, that the member elect may also be a sort of great 53 XXIV | improvements of the arts. We may presume that such profound, 54 XXIV | produce something that may prove of advantage to the 55 XXIV | ingenious and useless truths may be compared to stars which,