The Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, Том 2Mathews and Leigh., 1807 |
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... perhaps , be adequately supplied , is a native of this metropolis . His father was a brewer , but young Quick so little liked the smell of malt and hops , that at twelve years old he enlisted into a theatrical corps , and was the hero ...
... perhaps , be adequately supplied , is a native of this metropolis . His father was a brewer , but young Quick so little liked the smell of malt and hops , that at twelve years old he enlisted into a theatrical corps , and was the hero ...
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... perhaps , more of Africa than any individual of the 17th century , notwithstanding his un- couth phraseology , his antiquated prejudices , and risible self - importance , still excite interest from the naïveté of his manner , from the ...
... perhaps , more of Africa than any individual of the 17th century , notwithstanding his un- couth phraseology , his antiquated prejudices , and risible self - importance , still excite interest from the naïveté of his manner , from the ...
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... perhaps so far back as the irrup- tion of the shepherds , or , perhaps , during the mas- sacres of Cambyses . Were these traditions worth rea- soning upon , ( as stated by Captain Wilford ) they would be found rather to strengthen my ...
... perhaps so far back as the irrup- tion of the shepherds , or , perhaps , during the mas- sacres of Cambyses . Were these traditions worth rea- soning upon , ( as stated by Captain Wilford ) they would be found rather to strengthen my ...
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... perhaps the truest wisdom and the surest happiness is , to cultivate well the rank in which we are born . Why should any man covet to raise and distinguish himself farther , than his real well - being may make necessary ? * A mark of ...
... perhaps the truest wisdom and the surest happiness is , to cultivate well the rank in which we are born . Why should any man covet to raise and distinguish himself farther , than his real well - being may make necessary ? * A mark of ...
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... perhaps have encreased it , for he takes care to conclude thus : " if he can save his life let him , I give him fair warning of it . " Thus if matters go on right , it might still have been said , " the Turkish emperor had no doubt ...
... perhaps have encreased it , for he takes care to conclude thus : " if he can save his life let him , I give him fair warning of it . " Thus if matters go on right , it might still have been said , " the Turkish emperor had no doubt ...
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Страница 43 - To be the true Church militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery, And prove their doctrine orthodox, By apostolic blows and knocks; Call fire, and sword, and desolation, A godly, thorough reformation. Which always must be carried on, And still be doing, never done; As if religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended...
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Страница 39 - They both complimented me, in the highest terms, on my essay, which, they said, was a book they always kept by them; and the king said he had one copy of it at Kew, and another in town, and immediately went and took it down from a shelf. I found it was the second edition. 'I never stole a book but one,' said his Majesty, ' and that was yours (speaking to me) ; I stole it from the queen, to give it to Lord Hertford to read.
Страница 98 - ... and from the walls, which, together with the earth formerly imbibed with water, made a kind of a dry and barren soil. That place lying to the south, and out of the...
Страница 58 - Essay, which they said was a book they always kept by them : and the King said he had one copy of it at Kew, and another in town, and immediately went and took it down from a shelf. I found it was the second edition. ' I never stole a book but once,' said his Majesty, ' and that was yours,' (speaking to me) : ' I stole it from the Queen, to give it to Lord Hertford to read.
Страница 61 - Pilkington having inquired of her where she gained this prodigious knowledge, she modestly replied, that when she could spare time from her needlework, to which she was closely kept by her mother, she had received some little instruction from the minister of the parish.
Страница 99 - I did not know it by experience, is, that those ants knew, some days after, that they had nothing to fear, and began to lay out their corn in the sun. However, I perceived...