The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, Volume 5F. and C. Rivington, 1795 |
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... Such a writer can have little reafon to conceal his name , and the book deserves the aid which it would derive from one which is , we doubt not , refpectable . But if these narrow limits contain all we have at prefent to bring forward ...
... Such a writer can have little reafon to conceal his name , and the book deserves the aid which it would derive from one which is , we doubt not , refpectable . But if these narrow limits contain all we have at prefent to bring forward ...
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... Such are the varieties of nature in disease , as well as in other cafes , that every grain of hypothefis is , in moft in- ftances , equal to its weight of prejudice . The Treatife on the Blood , Inflammation , and Gun - fhot Wounds , by ...
... Such are the varieties of nature in disease , as well as in other cafes , that every grain of hypothefis is , in moft in- ftances , equal to its weight of prejudice . The Treatife on the Blood , Inflammation , and Gun - fhot Wounds , by ...
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... such a manner as not only to show the tranflator's ignorance of Greek , but alfo to betray more knowledge of the Latin verfion than he chooses to own.- We find Pefinuntes for Pefinus ; Apamen for Apame ; Calau- reas for Calauria ...
... such a manner as not only to show the tranflator's ignorance of Greek , but alfo to betray more knowledge of the Latin verfion than he chooses to own.- We find Pefinuntes for Pefinus ; Apamen for Apame ; Calau- reas for Calauria ...
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... such a publication as the prefent as a work of reference , they cannot eafily allow the neceffary time to fearch through two quarto volumes , for what a good index will with little trouble , in a moment place before them . This , as it ...
... such a publication as the prefent as a work of reference , they cannot eafily allow the neceffary time to fearch through two quarto volumes , for what a good index will with little trouble , in a moment place before them . This , as it ...
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... such a change appears very much to depend upon its initial magni- tude , if it had been deferred until they had acquired much more landed property , it would have been effected with much lefs fafety . Mr. McKenna has likewife ...
... such a change appears very much to depend upon its initial magni- tude , if it had been deferred until they had acquired much more landed property , it would have been effected with much lefs fafety . Mr. McKenna has likewife ...
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Page 270 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 197 - And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me ; for the earth is filled with violence through them ; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Page 301 - And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 229 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
Page 199 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth ; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 199 - And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
Page 249 - Written in a blank leaf of Dugdale's Monasticon. " Deem not, devoid of elegance, the sage, By Fancy's genuine feelings unbeguil'd, Of painful pedantry the poring child; Who turns of these proud domes the historic page, Now sunk by Time, and Henry's fiercer rage. Think'st thou the warbling Muses never smil'd On his lone hours ? Ingenuous views engage His thoughts, on themes unclassic falsely styl'd, Intent.
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Page 629 - I began this first book, I had some thoughts of translating the whole Iliad ; but had the pleasure of being diverted from that design, by finding the work was fallen into a much abler hand. I would not therefore be thought to have any other view in publishing this small specimen of Homer's Iliad, than to bespeak, if possible, the favour of the public to a translation of Homer's Odysseis, wherein I have already made some progress.