The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen13John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 |
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... things that feem to happen contrary to nature . Hieronymus Mercurialis . Lucretius was the first who explained the Na- ture of Things in the Roman tongue ; and he bor- rowed many things from Democritus , Epicurus , and Hippocrates ...
... things that feem to happen contrary to nature . Hieronymus Mercurialis . Lucretius was the first who explained the Na- ture of Things in the Roman tongue ; and he bor- rowed many things from Democritus , Epicurus , and Hippocrates ...
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... Things : for , besides that the ancient copies have it fo , and that Sofipather in the second book of his Gram . mentions the third book of Lucretius , of Natural Things ; our poet himself confirms it in book v . verfe 381 , where he ...
... Things : for , besides that the ancient copies have it fo , and that Sofipather in the second book of his Gram . mentions the third book of Lucretius , of Natural Things ; our poet himself confirms it in book v . verfe 381 , where he ...
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... things contained in it , and many that well deferve to be read and remembered : for , in the first place , he teaches that they only are fit to be trufted with the administration of the government , who excel others in prudence , wifdom ...
... things contained in it , and many that well deferve to be read and remembered : for , in the first place , he teaches that they only are fit to be trufted with the administration of the government , who excel others in prudence , wifdom ...
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... THINGS . BOOK I. THE ARGUMENT . 1. The poet invokes Venus . II . Then , from ver . 64. to ver . 191 , he dedicates to Memmius his books of the Nature of Things , praifes Epicurus , whofe philofophy he follows , endeavours to clear his ...
... THINGS . BOOK I. THE ARGUMENT . 1. The poet invokes Venus . II . Then , from ver . 64. to ver . 191 , he dedicates to Memmius his books of the Nature of Things , praifes Epicurus , whofe philofophy he follows , endeavours to clear his ...
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... things in heaven and earth appear , Whofe caufes far remote and hidden lie , Beyond the ken of vulgar reafon's eye ; 180 Deity . } But this once prov'd , it gives an open way To nature's fecrets , and we walk in day . How things are ...
... things in heaven and earth appear , Whofe caufes far remote and hidden lie , Beyond the ken of vulgar reafon's eye ; 180 Deity . } But this once prov'd , it gives an open way To nature's fecrets , and we walk in day . How things are ...
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