The London Magazine Enlarged and Improved, Томове 2–3R. Baldwin, 1784 |
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... these confiderations , and the liberal fupport of a difcerning public , we proceed with confidence and alacrity in the plan we have prefcribed ourselves . In the profecution of it , we fhall meet with fpecimens of eloquence if not the ...
... these confiderations , and the liberal fupport of a difcerning public , we proceed with confidence and alacrity in the plan we have prefcribed ourselves . In the profecution of it , we fhall meet with fpecimens of eloquence if not the ...
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... these committees had agreed in afcribing the difficulties that oppref- fed the Company to difobedience of the orders of the Court of Directors , and to the rapacity of their fervants in India . In obedience to a vote of that Houfe , the ...
... these committees had agreed in afcribing the difficulties that oppref- fed the Company to difobedience of the orders of the Court of Directors , and to the rapacity of their fervants in India . In obedience to a vote of that Houfe , the ...
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... these faultering lays demand , Should from my touch the confcious laurel bend , Like ory Mimosa * , shrinking from the hand ; Yet thy bright tablets , with unfading hues , Shall beam on high in Honour's envied fane , By hint emblazon'd ...
... these faultering lays demand , Should from my touch the confcious laurel bend , Like ory Mimosa * , shrinking from the hand ; Yet thy bright tablets , with unfading hues , Shall beam on high in Honour's envied fane , By hint emblazon'd ...
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... these two rivers , which form fo fine a contraft , would not learn to de- fpife our pompous follies , and laugh at artificial Niles , and feas in marble : for as in our late argument you refer- red all to nature , fo , more efpecially ...
... these two rivers , which form fo fine a contraft , would not learn to de- fpife our pompous follies , and laugh at artificial Niles , and feas in marble : for as in our late argument you refer- red all to nature , fo , more efpecially ...
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... these te- nets . They maintained the reality of Providence , and of a common intereft of goodnefs and of juftice , for which Providence was exerted , and in which all rational creatures were deeply con- cerned . They allowed , that in ...
... these te- nets . They maintained the reality of Providence , and of a common intereft of goodnefs and of juftice , for which Providence was exerted , and in which all rational creatures were deeply con- cerned . They allowed , that in ...
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Страница 362 - ... certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another:, he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself, and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Страница 397 - You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both! If it be you that stir these daughters...
Страница 487 - SWEET maid, if thou would'st charm my sight, And bid these arms thy neck infold ; That rosy cheek, that lily hand, • Would give thy poet more delight Than all Bocara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand.
Страница 453 - And accordingly she is provided with the organs and faculty of speech, by which she can throw out signs with amazing facility, and vary them without end. Thus we have built up an animal body, which would seem to be pretty complete ; but as it is the nature of matter to be altered and worked upon by matter, so in a very little time such a living creature must be destroyed, if there is no provision for...
Страница 26 - Esq., to collect and publish my works, with the remarks and explanations he has prepared, and any others he thinks proper to make.
Страница 220 - Life; yet running perhaps the same Course, which Rome itself had run before it; from virtuous Industry to Wealth; from Wealth to Luxury; from Luxury to an Impatience of Discipline and Corruption of Morals; till by a total Degeneracy and loss of Virtue, being grown ripe for Destruction, it falls a Prey at last to some hardy Oppressor, and, with the Loss of Liberty, losing every Thing else, that is valuable, sinks gradually again into its original Barbarism.
Страница 309 - ... admitting among the additions of later times, only such as may supply real deficiencies, such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue, and incorporate easily with our native idioms.
Страница 22 - ... and to all nations; not to be dipt in the dirt of the faction of a day, of an insignificant part of the country, when it might command the admiration of the whole.
Страница 471 - A ftranger may be accommodated not only comfortably, but moft elegantly, at many public hotels ; and the perfon who in 1763 was obliged to put up with accommodation little better than that of a waggoner or carrier, may now be lodged like a prince, and command every luxury of life — His guinea, it muft be owned, will not go quite fo far as it did in 1763.
Страница 362 - Neither is this second fruit of friendship, in opening the understanding, restrained only to such friends as are able to give a man counsel, (they indeed are best,) but even without that a man learneth of himself, and bringeth his own thoughts to light, and whetteth his wits as against a stone, which itself cuts not.