The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on Subjects of Literature, Science, and Morals; Biographical and Historical Sketches; Critical Remarks on Language; with Occasional Reviews ..., Volume 2W. Hilliard., 1806 |
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... effects of any transaction or ex- periment , through all the remote and most minute parts its execution . of Toward the close of the American war and just before Lord George Germaine left his office , Major Thompson , through the ...
... effects of any transaction or ex- periment , through all the remote and most minute parts its execution . of Toward the close of the American war and just before Lord George Germaine left his office , Major Thompson , through the ...
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... effect , are stated by himself , as follow in his essays , published at London 1796 . " " Having in the year 1784 with his majesty's gracious " permission engaged myself in the service of his most se- " rene highness , the elector ...
... effect , are stated by himself , as follow in his essays , published at London 1796 . " " Having in the year 1784 with his majesty's gracious " permission engaged myself in the service of his most se- " rene highness , the elector ...
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... effect , and then solicit their support . After thus much had been done , he easily procured men of the highest rank and respectabili- ty to take the principal charge and direction of the whole bu- siness , and the inhabitants , who had ...
... effect , and then solicit their support . After thus much had been done , he easily procured men of the highest rank and respectabili- ty to take the principal charge and direction of the whole bu- siness , and the inhabitants , who had ...
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... effect of magic . 66 " It is easy to conceive , " says Count Rumford , " that so great a number of unfortunate beings , of all ages and sex- " es , taken as it were from their very element , and placed in " a situation so perfectly new ...
... effect of magic . 66 " It is easy to conceive , " says Count Rumford , " that so great a number of unfortunate beings , of all ages and sex- " es , taken as it were from their very element , and placed in " a situation so perfectly new ...
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... effect of chance ; we must therefore conclude he has taken no other liberty , than that of applying his own ideas to different purposes . Without doubt the writer can reconcile his introductory and concluding observations on the ...
... effect of chance ; we must therefore conclude he has taken no other liberty , than that of applying his own ideas to different purposes . Without doubt the writer can reconcile his introductory and concluding observations on the ...
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Page 89 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Page 9 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 89 - WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? WHAT constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride, Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No, — men, high-minded men...
Page 241 - English : and have endeavoured to make him speak that kind of English which he would have spoken had he lived in England, and had written to this age.
Page 91 - This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety. Glad then, as miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour...
Page 76 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Page 9 - And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Page 90 - O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend discretion like a vapor sinks ; And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks.
Page 8 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 91 - Nature, it seemed, ashamed of her mistake, Would throw their land away at duck and drake, Therefore necessity, that first made kings, Something like government among them brings. For, as with...