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If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being or Attributes,…
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Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that…
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If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making fixed bodies…
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And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when, in a…
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The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over…
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But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or…
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God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to see all…
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Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
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It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little…
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I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their…
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God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
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If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making fixed bodies…
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There are still to be found , or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear,…
— William Shakespeare
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In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and…
— Joseph Addison
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Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to…
— Augustus William Hare
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But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening…
— Thomas de Quincey
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A just and lively image of human representing, its passions and humours and the changing of fortune to, which it is subject…
— John Dryden
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Diversity of humours breedth tumours
— Russyb
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