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... never be they are the most active of bodies . Sometimes able to discern , and much less to produce , a num- they take them for air ; from which they differ ex - ber of mechanical motions . Again , as to the mo ceedingly , as much as ...
... never be they are the most active of bodies . Sometimes able to discern , and much less to produce , a num- they take them for air ; from which they differ ex - ber of mechanical motions . Again , as to the mo ceedingly , as much as ...
Page 24
... never change though they be in their nature never so perishable or mutable . We see how flies , and spiders , and the like , get a se- pulchre in amber , more durable than the monu- ment and embalming of the body of any king . And I ...
... never change though they be in their nature never so perishable or mutable . We see how flies , and spiders , and the like , get a se- pulchre in amber , more durable than the monu- ment and embalming of the body of any king . And I ...
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... Never- theless , the recorder itself , or pipe , moistened a Experiments in consort touching the communication little in the inside , soundeth more solemnly , and of sounds . The communication of sounds , as in bellies of lutes , empty ...
... Never- theless , the recorder itself , or pipe , moistened a Experiments in consort touching the communication little in the inside , soundeth more solemnly , and of sounds . The communication of sounds , as in bellies of lutes , empty ...
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... never an interior sound ; as when one treadeth so softly that he is not heard . 190. Where the air is the percutient , pent or not pent , against a hard body , it never giveth an exte- rior sound ; as if you blow strongly with a bellows ...
... never an interior sound ; as when one treadeth so softly that he is not heard . 190. Where the air is the percutient , pent or not pent , against a hard body , it never giveth an exte- rior sound ; as if you blow strongly with a bellows ...
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... never saw any thing more clear or perfect than that white needle : which , no doubt , was , because the needle was lesser than the pupil of the eye , and so took not the light from it . The other error may be , for that the ob - nature ...
... never saw any thing more clear or perfect than that white needle : which , no doubt , was , because the needle was lesser than the pupil of the eye , and so took not the light from it . The other error may be , for that the ob - nature ...
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