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1 I| objects some~ Of heavier weight, but of no bulkier size:~ 2 I| fatal dissolution: such,~ Weight to the rocks, heat to the 3 I| flow~ Together by solid weight from everywhere~ Still downward 4 I| void,~ Deprived of force of weight; nor yet may void~ Furnish 5 II| Be borne along, either by weight their own,~ Or haply by 6 II| and trees,~ Though all the weight within them downward bears.~ 7 II| meseems,~ That all the weight within them downward bears~ 8 II| aloft, even though~ The weight within them strive to draw 9 II| The atoms, as their own weight bears them down~ Plumb through 10 II| descent,~ Each after its weight - on this account, because~ 11 II| quick before the heavier weight;~ But contrariwise the empty 12 II| speed, though equal not in weight,~ Must rush, borne downward 13 II| manifest:~ Whatever the weight, it can't obliquely go,~ 14 II| admit, besides all blows and weight,~ Some other cause of motion, 15 II| can become, we see.~ For weight prevents all things should 16 III| en in form,~ Nothing in weight. Death grants ye everything,~ 17 III| limbs~ Is unimpaired and weight fails not a whit.~ Just 18 III| aught abstracted from its weight -~ No marvel, because seeds 19 III| It beareth nothing of the weight away.~ Yet fancy not its 20 III| load that wearies with its weight,~ Could also know the causes 21 IV| great a body and turn this weight of ours;~ For wind, so tenuous 22 V| Thus, then, the massy weight of earth stood firm~ With 23 V| Must vanish bit by bit in weight and lessen,~ And have another 24 V| members be~ Without all weight - the head is not a load~ 25 V| nor do we feel the whole~ Weight of the body to centre in 26 V| body, though so heavy a weight, -~ Because, indeed, 'tis 27 V| and with them silver's weight~ And power of lead, when 28 VI| borne down by their brute weight,~ Like stones, or, like 29 VI| since by nature always every weight~ Bears downward, doubled 30 VI| dread,~ When, verily, to weight are added blows,~ So that 31 VI| jarred by a cart~ Of no large weight; and, too, the furniture~ 32 VI| while boulders of wondrous weight~ Leaving no doubt in thee 33 VI| constrains them by their weight to slip~ Down to the earth, 34 VI| for some stand firm by weight,~ As gold; and some cannot