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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... original is faithfully preserved throughout the work ; and the trans- " lation comes up to the spirit of the original , as far as the “ difference between the Roman and the English languages " will allow . " * * Wellwood . Preface to ...
... original is faithfully preserved throughout the work ; and the trans- " lation comes up to the spirit of the original , as far as the “ difference between the Roman and the English languages " will allow . " * * Wellwood . Preface to ...
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... , the Dutchman would still be the perfectest soaker . So In this progress you have seen some of their vices ; now view a fairer object . ( To be continued . ) ORIGINAL MEMOIRS OF BENJAMIN , COUNT OF RUMFORD , With LITERARY MISCELLANY . 31.
... , the Dutchman would still be the perfectest soaker . So In this progress you have seen some of their vices ; now view a fairer object . ( To be continued . ) ORIGINAL MEMOIRS OF BENJAMIN , COUNT OF RUMFORD , With LITERARY MISCELLANY . 31.
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... ORIGINAL MEMOIRS OF BENJAMIN , COUNT OF RUMFORD , With some account of his writings , philosophical improve ments , & c . [ Continued from vol . I , page 361. ] THE interesting account , with which Major Thompson entertained his ...
... ORIGINAL MEMOIRS OF BENJAMIN , COUNT OF RUMFORD , With some account of his writings , philosophical improve ments , & c . [ Continued from vol . I , page 361. ] THE interesting account , with which Major Thompson entertained his ...
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... now be very attractive . It has been contended on the one side , that a taste for the belleslet- tres can be acquired only by a familiar acquaintance with an- cient originals ; while on the other Greek and Roman 44 LITERARY MISCELLANY .
... now be very attractive . It has been contended on the one side , that a taste for the belleslet- tres can be acquired only by a familiar acquaintance with an- cient originals ; while on the other Greek and Roman 44 LITERARY MISCELLANY .
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... original is concise , we spoil by our diffuseness . Where from the pe- culiar structure of ancient languages the sound seems an echo to the sense , we are obliged to substitute English , where both the sound and the echo are lost . In ...
... original is concise , we spoil by our diffuseness . Where from the pe- culiar structure of ancient languages the sound seems an echo to the sense , we are obliged to substitute English , where both the sound and the echo are lost . In ...
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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...