The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Том 49R. Griffiths, 1774 |
Между кориците на книгата
Резултати 1 - 5 от 14.
Страница 93
... observations : It has been remarked as a phænomenon in the literary world , that , while our learned fellow fubjects of Scotland and Ireland are making frequent attempts to afcertain , and fix a ftandard to , the pronunciation of the ...
... observations : It has been remarked as a phænomenon in the literary world , that , while our learned fellow fubjects of Scotland and Ireland are making frequent attempts to afcertain , and fix a ftandard to , the pronunciation of the ...
Страница 139
... observations or events , are related in this work , can scarce fail to fatigue and disgust that numerous clafs of readers , who perufe books of this kind merely for a tem- porary amusement ; and who expect that the narratives of men who ...
... observations or events , are related in this work , can scarce fail to fatigue and disgust that numerous clafs of readers , who perufe books of this kind merely for a tem- porary amusement ; and who expect that the narratives of men who ...
Страница 192
... observations concerning the obftacles to the propagation of the gospel ; - they are fubjoined to Fleury's Difcourfe on the Croifades , which the Doctor has inferted in his fifth volume ; -indeed more than half this volume is tranflated ...
... observations concerning the obftacles to the propagation of the gospel ; - they are fubjoined to Fleury's Difcourfe on the Croifades , which the Doctor has inferted in his fifth volume ; -indeed more than half this volume is tranflated ...
Страница 257
... Observations on a Greek infcription on a marble brought from Athens ; by Daniel Wray , Efq . This infcription is merely a lift of Greek names , being no way useful for fet tling any point of hiftory or chronology , or illuftrating ...
... Observations on a Greek infcription on a marble brought from Athens ; by Daniel Wray , Efq . This infcription is merely a lift of Greek names , being no way useful for fet tling any point of hiftory or chronology , or illuftrating ...
Страница 266
... observations on the two latter of the three periods mentioned in the farther part of this prophecy . The fecond period is faid to be feventy years , That is , 67 or 68 folar years , reaching ( according to Ufher ) to the year 4c09 , in ...
... observations on the two latter of the three periods mentioned in the farther part of this prophecy . The fecond period is faid to be feventy years , That is , 67 or 68 folar years , reaching ( according to Ufher ) to the year 4c09 , in ...
Други издания - Преглед на всички
Често срещани думи и фрази
Addrefs affiftance alfo ancient appears Author becauſe cafe caufe cauſe Chriftian circumftances compofed compofition confequence confiderable confidered confifts courfe defcribed defcription defign defire difcovered Effay endeavours England English expreffed faid fame fatire favour fays fecond feems feen fenfe fenfible fent fentiments fervice feven feveral fhall fhew fhip fhort fhould fide fince firft fituation fmall fociety fome fometimes foon fpeak fpirit ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffered fufficient fuperior fuppofe fupport hath hiftory himſelf honour houfe ifland inftances intereft Ireland Irish juft King laft leaft lefs Letters likewife Lord Majefty manner moft moſt mufic muft muſt nature neceffary obfervations occafion paffage paffed paffions perfons philofophical Plato pleaſure Poem poffible prefent preferve purpoſe racter Readers reafon refpect remarks Review Richard Hotham Sermons ſhall ſtate TAMOR thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion Tranflation uſe voyage whofe writers
Популярни откъси
Страница 13 - I have writ nothing in this that will displease Your Majesty. If I have, I humbly beg of you to consider it as coming from a woman amazed with grief; and that you will pardon the daughter of a person who served Your Majesty's father in his greatest...
Страница 80 - It is not smooth and even like the greatest part of the latter ; but is finely variegated by an infinite number of those beautiful little mountains that have been formed by the different eruptions of JEtna.
Страница 380 - ... before he could be disgusted with fatigue, or disabled by infirmity, he made no collection of his works, nor desired to rescue those that...
Страница 433 - ... fiery and irregular in all his motions. His name was Genius. He darted like an eagle up the mountain, and left his companions gazing after him with envy and admiration ; but his progress was unequal, and interrupted by a thousand caprices. When Pleasure warbled in the valley, he mingled in her train.
Страница 385 - Religion, and the strange confusions following from thence : in the Reigns of King Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary, and Elizabeth,
Страница 186 - Braves the broad ocean, and refigns to fate ; Scarce well arriv'd, and lab'ring to procure Life's free fubfiftence, and retreats fecure, Sudden! he fees the roving INDIAN nigh, Fate in his hand, and ruin in his eye — Scar'd at the fight, he runs, he bounds, he flies, Till arrow-pierc'd...
Страница 77 - The evils of this life appear like rocks and precipices, rugged and barren at a distance ; but at our nearer approach we find little fruitful spots, and refreshing springs, mixed with the harshness and deformities of nature.
Страница 257 - The same operation was also performed on the first lieutenant and the purser, but upon none of those who appeared to be in health. While this was doing, our surgeon, who had walked till he was very warm, took off his wig to cool and refresh himself...
Страница 421 - ... the time of the day when the sun shone out, by the boundary where the half of the globe at any time enlightened by the sun was parted from the other half in the shade ; the enlightened parts of the terrestrial globe answering to the like enlightened parts of the earth at all times. So that, whenever the sun shone on the globe, one might see to what places the sun was then rising, to what places it was setting, and all the places where it was then day or night, throughout the earth.
Страница 380 - ... profit. When his plays had been acted his hope was at an end; he solicited no addition of honour from the reader.