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GLEANINGS ; OR, SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OF GENERAL READING.
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38 - Gleanings .
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and yet that there are not two Sheriffs , hut one Sheriff . This is the technical faith , however i incomprehensible , of which all are deemed cognisant , and , whoever would impugn it , without doubt he shall fail everlastingly . Fortunately for my argument 9 the gentlemen happened to be sound orthodox men , —* -and , after looking at each other , turned the conversation . J . D . B . C .
Gleanings ; Or, Selections And Reflections Made In A Course Of General Reading.
GLEANINGS ; OR , SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OF GENERAL READING .
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No . CGXC . Galileo ^ Galileo , whom Milton calls " the Tuscan Artist / ' in allusion to his telescope , was imprisoned < in the Inquisition for six years and put to th . e torture for saying that the earth moved . Tfhe moment he was set at liberty , lie looked up to the sky and down to the ground , and , stamping with his foot on the earth , in a contern plative mood , said , still it moves .
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No . CCXCI . Invention and Discovery . The object of invention is to produce something which Tiact no existence before ; that of discovery , to bring to light something which cfid exist , but which was concealed from common observation . Otto Guerricke
invented the air-pump , Sanctoriiis invented the thermometer , and Newton and Gregory invented the reflecting telescope : Galileo discovered the solar spots , and Servetus and Harvey discovered the circulation of the blood .
Improvements in the arts are inventions j facts brought to light by means © f observation are discoveries .
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No . CCXCI I . Measure of Credibility . The number of those who believe in a system already established ( says Fontenette ) does not in the least add to it ' s Credibility ; but the number of those who doubt of it has a tendency to dirninuk it .
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I' No . CCXCIII . v Gravina . . Oracvina was an Italian divine and ffttfhor . 'He niissed a cardinal ' s hat throtigh nis satyrical and severe turn
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of mind . When he was at Rome he u * ed \ t 0 bow to coach-hoises ; because , said he , were it not Jor the poor beasts * these great peop lt would have men and even pldlosophers to drjaw their coaches .
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No . CCXCIV . A Recipe of Mr . Bogie ' s . The following cure for a dysentery is copied verbatim from the works of Mr . Boyle : " Take the thigh-fyorie of a * hanged
mariy ( perhaps another may ' serve , but this was still made use of ) calcine it to whiteness , and having purged tile patient with an antimonial medicine , give him one dram of this white powder Jor one dosey in some - good cordial , ivhether conserve or liquor . ^ .
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No . CCXCV . /¦ Preparation for Subscription . ^ A . 15 o 4 , April 13 . The commissioners sat at Ilambeth , to administer the oath of succession to the cr ©* # iR , upon the heirs of queen Ann , to the clergy , and chiefly those-of London ,
that had not yet sworn ; wW all took it , not one excepted . And » Certain Doctor , Vicar of Croyden , thait ; it seems made some boggle before , fi ^^ it up with the rest ; of whom Sir Tho * - mas More , who then stood by , made
an observation , how , as he past ^ he went to my lord ' s buttery-hatch , ^ and called for drink , and drank valde Jhrmliariter ; whether , saith he sarcastically , it were for gladness or dryfte&s , or quod iUe notus erat pontifid . Memorials of Bishop Cr&nmer .
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No . CCXCVX . ¦ ¦ ,.- ; :. ' ; . ' ; .. Curious Public Ifdus& lAgenGG ^ ic In Bishop W > aynfleet * & Register at Winchester , is a Hcende t& Jo&n Calcot , host of the Cb « ck'e # -inn , * Ijambeth , ( dated 1455 , ) to-have an orratory in his house , and a chapkiin for- th % use of his family and guests , as long and
as it shall continue tlec ^ rit repu te * ble , and well adapted lor the celebra tion of divine service ; ( i $ dceHsy hon&stum et divino cuUun apjum- ct divpasitum ) " The Knvirons nf -L 0 ndo ( n ^ v pi > 3-1 ^ . Most probably thifc ' indlulg&riQcsuwaA very ^ eldo nrr solicit ^ by a publican jb former days v and , frUvileas uiot ^ Idtfa& the search for & ^ pr ecbdantx of xweh Jicenco ^ ranted otj a * t if pHoa lion ( from : the master of & modemdftrfe'l . ' ^' i-. / - >> . tiktmH i * , L > t < - . Oty : < J T . 'il 1 . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1817, page 38, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2460/page/38/
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