...object of wonder to which nature had contributed little. To this ambition, perhaps, we owe the Progs of Homer, the Gnat and the Bees of Virgil, the Butterfly...the Shadow of Wowerus, and the Quincunx of Browne. To show the excellence of this figure, he enumerates all its properties; and finds in it almost every...

...Johnson observes in his life of Sir Thomas Browne, to have been in all ages the pride of art to show how it could exalt the low and amplify the little....exercises; and he was once discovered jumping with his servant, to try who could reach the highest side of a wall. De Grammont, observing the cardinal to...

...Johnson observes in his life of Sir Thomas Browne, to have been in all ages the pride of art to show how it could exalt the low and amplify the little....exercises ; and he was once discovered jumping with his servant, to try who could reach the highest side of a wall. De Grammont, observing the cardinal to...

...Johnson observes in his life of Sir Thomas Browne, to have been in all ages the pride of art to show how it could exalt the low and amplify the little....exercises; and he was once discovered jumping with his servant, to try who could reach the highest side of a wall. De Grammont, observing the cardinal to...

...obfcure properties, and to produce to the world an objedt of wonder to which nature had contributed little. To this ambition, perhaps, we owe the Frogs...the Shadow of WOWERUS, and the Quincunx of BROWNE. In the profecution of this fport of fancy, he confiders every production of art and nature, in which...

...obfcure properties, and to produce to the world an object of wonder to which nature had contributed little. To this ambition, perhaps, we owe the Frogs...the Shadow of WOWERUS, and the Quincunx of BROWNE. In the profecution of this fport of fancy, he confiders every production of art and nature, in which...

...obfcure properties, and to produce to the world an object of wonder to which nature had contributed little. To this ambition, perhaps, we owe the Frogs...Bees of VIRGIL, the Butterfly of SPENSER, the Shadow OfWOWERU s, and the Q.¿JncunxofBRowNE. In the profecution of this fport of fancy, he confiders every...

...Johnson observes in his life of Sir Thomaa Browne, to have been in all ages the pride of art to -show how it could exalt the low and amplify the little. To this ambition perhaps weo wethe Frogs of Homer ; the Gnat and the Bees of Virgil ; the Butterfly of Spenser ; the Shadow...

...Johnson observes in his life of Sir Thomas Browne, to have been in all ages the pride of art to show how it could exalt the low and amplify the little. To this ambition perhaps weo wethe Frogs of Homer ; the Gnat and the Bees of Virgil ; the Butterfly of Spenser ; the Shadow...

...obfcure properties, and to produce to the world an objecT: of wonder to which nature had contributed little. To this ambition, perhaps, we owe the Frogs...the Shadow of WOWERUS, and the Quincunx of BROWNE. IN the profecution of this fport of fancy, he confiders every production of art and nature, in which...