The English Review, Or, An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature, Volume 25J. Murray, 1795 |
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... useful means of improving knowledge . It is to be regarded as a favourable indication of the progrefs of fcience and letters in the pre- fent age , that fuch focieties are more frequent than formerly . Several philofophical and literary ...
... useful means of improving knowledge . It is to be regarded as a favourable indication of the progrefs of fcience and letters in the pre- fent age , that fuch focieties are more frequent than formerly . Several philofophical and literary ...
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... useful knowledge , as Mr. N. obferves , will be increafed , and fhould they fall by the arm of reafon and philofophy , from the ruins may be collected fome materials for the erection of a firmer and better fyftem . Mr. N. therefore ...
... useful knowledge , as Mr. N. obferves , will be increafed , and fhould they fall by the arm of reafon and philofophy , from the ruins may be collected fome materials for the erection of a firmer and better fyftem . Mr. N. therefore ...
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... useful in this disease . Thefe are the means upon which Dr. H. seems to have depended in the cure of this disorder . In this part of the work the author has introduced fome useful re gulations for the management of failors , on their ...
... useful in this disease . Thefe are the means upon which Dr. H. seems to have depended in the cure of this disorder . In this part of the work the author has introduced fome useful re gulations for the management of failors , on their ...
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... useful facts , rather than to introduce conclufions which reft upon conjecture or unfatisfactory evidence . ÅRT . VI . Memoir on the medical Arrangements necessary to be obferved in Camps ; the Means of rendering the Clothing of ...
... useful facts , rather than to introduce conclufions which reft upon conjecture or unfatisfactory evidence . ÅRT . VI . Memoir on the medical Arrangements necessary to be obferved in Camps ; the Means of rendering the Clothing of ...
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... useful , and indeed feems to have little to do with the fubjects of the prefent tract . They who are interested in this in- veftigation may , however , find fome ingenuity of remark in this part of the performance . We come now to Mr ...
... useful , and indeed feems to have little to do with the fubjects of the prefent tract . They who are interested in this in- veftigation may , however , find fome ingenuity of remark in this part of the performance . We come now to Mr ...
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Page 49 - In these two princely boys! They are as gentle As zephyrs, blowing below the violet, Not wagging his sweet head: and yet as rough, Their royal blood enchafd, as the rud'st wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make him stoop to the vale.
Page 159 - Volition, it is plain, is an act of the mind knowingly exerting that dominion it takes itself to have over any part of the man, by employing it in, or withholding it from, any particular action.
Page 344 - ... a brother ! No longer seek him east or west And search no more the forest thorough ; For, wandering in the night so dark, He fell a lifeless corpse in Yarrow. The tear shall never leave my cheek, No other youth shall be my marrow — I'll seek thy body in the stream, And then with thee I'll sleep in Yarrow.
Page 37 - Nature sinks. The scorching sun, As pitiless as proud prosperity, Darts on him his full beams; gasping he lies Arraigning with his looks the patient skies, While that inhuman trader lifts on high The mangling scourge.
Page 38 - ... eyes Seem a heart overcharged to express ? She weeps not, yet often and deeply she sighs ; She never complains, but her silence implies The composure of settled distress.
Page 39 - Behind a wide column, half breathless with fear, She crept to conceal herself there : That instant the moon o'er a dark cloud shone clear, And she saw in the moonlight two ruffians appear, And between them a corpse did they bear.
Page 42 - Red, red are her ripe lips, and sweeter than roses, Where could my wee thing wander frae me ?" " I saw nae your wee thing, I saw nae your ain thing, Nor saw I your true love down by yon lea ; But I met my bonnie thing...
Page 37 - Sip the blood-sweeten'd beverage! thoughts like these Haply ye scorn : I thank thee, Gracious God, That I do feel upon my cheek the glow Of indignation, when beneath the rod A sable brother writhes in silent woe.