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Page 31 - It thundered, and an oak was struck -with lightning on that part of Mount Palatine called Summa Velia, early in the afternoon. A fray happened in a tavern at the lower end of the / Banker's * Street, in which the keeper of the hog in armour tavern, was dangerously wounded.
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Page 12 - Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces in us that sensation, from whence we denominate the object hot ; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.