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1 Ded | protection which you several years since promised it. It is 2 I, I | people and savages pass many years, even of their rational 3 I, I | them; yet it will be some years after, perhaps, before the 4 I, I | found in those of tender years, who nevertheless know other 5 I, III | one of seven, or seventy years old, whether a man, being 6 I, III | and he is forty or fifty years perfectly in the dark; and 7 II, I | objects. Thus the first years are usually employed and 8 II, I | they come to be of riper years; and some scarce ever at 9 II, IX | if a man had passed sixty years in such a state, as it is 10 II, X | quite wear out; so that some years after, there is no more 11 II, XIV | distinct ideas, as hours, days, years, &c., time and eternity.~ 12 II, XIV | distinction of days and years having depended on the motion 13 II, XIV | minutes, hours, days, months, years, &c., which they found themselves 14 II, XIV | serve men to reckon their years by as the motions of the 15 II, XIV | in America counted their years by the coming of certain 16 II, XIV | count time well enough by years, whose revolutions yet they 17 II, XIV | man, who distinguished his years either by the heat of summer, 18 II, XIV | many other people whose years, notwithstanding the motion 19 II, XIV | the exact lengths of the years that several nations counted 20 II, XIV | the beginning, count by years, or measure their time by 21 II, XIV | Minutes, hours, days, and years not necessary measures of 22 II, XIV | Minutes, hours, days, and years are, then, no more necessary 23 II, XIV | to begin several hundred years before there were really 24 II, XIV | either days, nights, or years, marked out by any revolutions 25 II, XIV | we suppose it to be 5639 years from this time to the first 26 II, XIV | 1689, to have been 5639 years, or equal to 5639 annual 27 II, XIV | Alexander counted 23,000 years from the reign of the sun; 28 II, XIV | account the world 3,269,000 years old, or more; which longer 29 II, XIV | make the world one thousand years older, since every one may 30 II, XIV | the world to be 50,000 years old, as 5639; and may as 31 II, XIV | conceive the duration of 50,000 years as 5639. Whereby it appears 32 II, XIV | a year, or one thousand years. For, if I can but consider 33 II, XIV | adding minutes, hours, or years (i.e. such or such parts 34 II, XIV | as minutes, hours, days, years, &c.~Fourthly, by being 35 II, XIV | to-morrow, next year, or seven years hence.~Fifthly, by being 36 II, XV | seasons and for days and years, and are accordingly our 37 II, XV | creation of the world, by 7640 years: whereby we would mark out 38 II, XV | foot square, or lasted two years; the other shows the distance 39 II, XV | other, minutes, days, and years, &c.~9. All the parts of 40 II, XV | minutes, hours, days, and years in duration);—the mind makes 41 II, XVII | duration, as hours, days, and years, are bounded lengths. The 42 II, XVII | and millions of miles, or years, which are so many distinct 43 II, XVII | in our minds the ideas of years, or ages, or any other assignable 44 II, XVII | feet or yards, or days and years; which are the common measures, 45 II, XVII | other number of miles, or years, whereof he has or can have 46 II, XVII | the idea of ten thousand years, without any body so old. 47 II, XXVI | and reigned forty-five years, these words import only 48 II, XXVI | duration of a man to be seventy years, when we say a man is young, 49 II, XXVI | is called young at twenty years, and very young at seven 50 II, XXVI | and very young at seven years old: but yet a horse we 51 II, XXVI | twenty, and a dog at seven years, because in each of these 52 II, XXVII | to make an embryo, one of years, mad and sober, the same 53 II, XXVII | that was done a thousand years since, appropriated to me 54 II, XXVII | which it had lost for twenty years together. Make these intervals 55 II, XXVII | it has done, months and years to come, without any certain 56 II, XXVII | and such an action some years since, by which he comes 57 II, XXIX | has an idea of but four years, has as much a positive 58 II, XXIX | has one of 400,000,000 of years: for what remains of eternity 59 II, XXIX | of these two numbers of years, is as clear to the one 60 II, XXIX | For he that adds only 4 years to 4, and so on, shall as 61 II, XXIX | that adds 400,000,000 of years, and so on; or, if he please, 62 II, XXXIII| myself that I had it some years since from a very sober 63 III, VI | happened in France some years since, in somewhat a like 64 IV, III | beings, and for several years continued us in such a state, 65 IV, IV | changelings, who have lived forty years together, without any appearance 66 IV, X | Because, about twenty or forty years since, you began to be. 67 IV, XVI | one thousand seven hundred years ago, there lived in it a 68 IV, XVI | older; and what a thousand years since would not, to a rational 69 IV, XX | till at forty or fifty years old he met with one of other 70 IV, XX | have his authority of forty years, standing, wrought out of 71 IV, XX | taught his scholars thirty years ago was all error and mistake; 72 IV, XX | one thousand seven hundred years ago such a man at Rome as