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3002 XXI | par des tempetes, Et la voix des tonnerres eclatant sur 3003 XXII | obliged to write a large volume, and that, after much pains 3004 XXIV | than others who are mere volunteers. It must indeed be confessed 3005 XI | to heighten by the most voluptuous artifices the pleasures 3006 XVIII| nous devore, Nul de nous ne voudroit recommencer son cours. De 3007 XX | tongue: ~"Qu'ay je donc vu dans l'Italie? Orgueil, 3008 XVIII| ingrats qui detournent la vue? La mort seroit trop douce 3009 VIII | at a very high price, and waded through seas of blood to 3010 XIX | commodious enough. Some wag, in an epitaph he made on 3011 XVIII| not give. I'm tired with waiting for his chymic gold, Which 3012 XVI | itself through the whole, waits only to be projected forward 3013 I | reasoning. Accordingly I waived the subject.~"Well", said 3014 XI | experiment to the Princess of Wales, now Queen of England. It 3015 XII | second to King Edward IV., to walk and vex the King.~"After 3016 XV | near Cambridge; as he was walking one day in his garden, and 3017 XVII | but went not farther. Dr. Wallis, about the middle of the 3018 XIX | apartments but as spacious as the walls are thick, this castle would 3019 XI | and madmen, because they wantonly communicate a certain and 3020 XII | Burgundy) thought he (Perkin Warbeck) was perfect in his lesson, 3021 XXIII| Sir Isaac Newton was made Warden of the Royal Mint. Mr. Congrefe 3022 II | you," said I, with some warmth, "to know whether your discourse 3023 III | man. If, after all these warnings and advertisements, thou 3024 XII | Newton, &c. Afterwards the warriors and Ministers of State shall 3025 I | but circumcision and the washing with water ought to be abolished 3026 XI | trading nation is always watchful over its own interests, 3027 XXIV | shall amass prodigious wealth in trade, shall become a 3028 XI | immediately upon their being weaned.~Some pretend that the Circassians 3029 VI | gait, puts on a sour look, wears a vastly broad-brimmed hat 3030 III | Leicestershire, and son to a silk weaver, took it into his head to 3031 XIII | could be to fancy that some weeks after I was conceived I 3032 VIII | great monarch of his life. Weigh, I say, all these wicked 3033 XII | whether the strength of the weights decreases on the mountain 3034 VI | yet all others are very welcome to come and settle in it, 3035 XVII | infinites than at the so well-known proposition, viz., that 3036 Int | 1694. His father was a well-to-do notary, and Francois was 3037 XII | storm had driven as far westward as the Caribbean Islands. 3038 | whereby 3039 XI | hence in France out of mere whim, in case the English should 3040 XXI | Yet, pleased with idle whimsies of his brain, And puffed 3041 XV | philosophers have imagined a vast whirlpool of subtile matter, in which 3042 VI | and gives the name of the whore of Babylon to all churches 3043 XVIII| piece, a man strangles his wife on the stage; and that the 3044 VIII | considered the plebeians as a wild beast, whom it behoved them 3045 I | disciples likewise all who were willing to submit to that carnal 3046 I | his cause; nor attempt to win over a fanatic by strength 3047 XXII | dreaded east is all the wind that blows. Here, in a grotto, 3048 XVII | enabled to trace its various windings.~Descartes got the start 3049 VII | throw the bishop out of the window, when the good old man gave 3050 V | mischief than the breaking the windows of some meeting-houses and 3051 XXI | schools; Borne on whose wings each heavy sot can pierce 3052 IV | naturally eloquent, having a winning aspect, and a very engaging 3053 XVII | middle of Cancer, and our winter solstice to the middle of 3054 I | traded thirty years, had the wisdom to prescribe limits to his 3055 VIII | they seeming to be grown wiser at their own expense; and 3056 XXIII| myself, I could presume top wish that the magistrates would 3057 XXI | charming ointments make an old witch fly, And bear a crippled 3058 XIV | of Holland, into which he withdrew, as in his own country. 3059 XIX | flocked to him with their wives, and now poor Horner is 3060 I | is, that we are neither wolves, tigers, nor mastiffs, but 3061 XIV | ever had any commerce with women-a circumstance which was assured 3062 XVI | of light.~But all these wonders are merely but the opening 3063 IX | peasants are not bruised by wooden shoes; they eat white bread, 3064 IV | instead of flying into the woods, cultivated by insensible 3065 X | fuller's-earth, and coarse wool, should become so powerful 3066 IX | in several parts of the world-they were villains or bondsmen 3067 XXIII| thought himself damned had he worn a cassock instead of a short 3068 XXIV | to display a thread-bare, worn-out subject in a new and uncommon 3069 III | appear uncovered before his worship?" Fox presented his other 3070 XXI | And from obeying fell to worshipping. On Oeta's top thus Hercules 3071 XXIV | have sometimes made the worst speeches, I answer, that 3072 XIX | it may be thought, is yet worth a thousand crowns a year ( 3073 XIX | friend, who is the most worthless wretch living. At the same 3074 II | earth that have no priests. Wouldst thou deprive us of so happy 3075 VIII | people of England would be wounded." The singularity of the 3076 XXII | sinks with becoming woe, Wrapt in a gown, for sickness 3077 XIX | who is the most worthless wretch living. At the same time 3078 XXII | like an ancient maid, Her wrinkled form in black and white 3079 III | mankind. He thereupon began to writhe his body, to screw up his 3080 III | miracles, and accordingly they wrought some.~Fox, this modern patriarch, 3081 II | after making a variety of wry faces and groaning in a 3082 X | Letter X: On Trade~As trade enriched 3083 XI | Letter XI: On Inoculation~It is inadvertently 3084 XII | Letter XII: On The Lord Bacon~Not long 3085 XIII | Letter XIII: On Mr. Locke~Perhaps no 3086 XIX | Letter XIX: On Comedy~I am suprised 3087 XVI | Letter XVI: On Sir Isaac Newton's Optics~ 3088 XVII | Letter XVII: On Infinites In Geometry, 3089 XVIII| Letter XVIII: On Tragedy~The English 3090 XX | Letter XX: On Such Of The Nobility 3091 XXII | Letter XXII: On Mr. Pope And Some Other 3092 XXIII| Letter XXIII: On The Regard That Ought 3093 XXIV | Letter XXIV: On The Royal Society And 3094 IX | It appears, by Article XXXII., that these pretended freemen 3095 XXIV | the sullen satisfaction of yawning over these productions. 3096 I | truth by sealing it with our yea or nay; and the judges believe 3097 XXIII| women, might have obtained a yearly pension of twelve hundred 3098 XI | the arm it is laid in as yeast in a piece of dough; it 3099 | Yes 3100 V | services; and we never see youngsters made bishops or colonels 3101 Int | prose fiction he wrote "Zadig," "Candide," and many admirable 3102 Int | successful dramas including "Zaire," "Oedipe," "La Mort de 3103 VIII | about syllogisms, as some zealots among them once did.~But 3104 XVII | Cancer.~Now every sign of the zodiac contains thirty degrees. 3105 I | nor any of my brethren." "Zounds!" said I to him, "you are 3106 VII | that Luther, Calvin, and Zuinglius, all of 'em wretched authors,