Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal EnlargedRalph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths R. Griffiths., 1807 Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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... mind which connects propositions , and deduceth conclusions from them , the schools call discourse , and we shall not miscal it , if we name it reason . ” Whatever be the sense , it frequently appears in our old writers , by whom it is ...
... mind which connects propositions , and deduceth conclusions from them , the schools call discourse , and we shall not miscal it , if we name it reason . ” Whatever be the sense , it frequently appears in our old writers , by whom it is ...
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... minds have discovered and begun to supply this desideratum , the subalterns in literature should crowd to the work ... mind , and as yet we possess little respecting them , except those works of taste and genius by which that opinion ...
... minds have discovered and begun to supply this desideratum , the subalterns in literature should crowd to the work ... mind , and as yet we possess little respecting them , except those works of taste and genius by which that opinion ...
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... mind for a ' your meikle pride Sae will become of thee . Gin ye be Clerk Saunders my true love This meikle marvels me O wherein is your bonny arms That wont to embrace me . By worms they're eaten , in mools they're rotten , Behold ...
... mind for a ' your meikle pride Sae will become of thee . Gin ye be Clerk Saunders my true love This meikle marvels me O wherein is your bonny arms That wont to embrace me . By worms they're eaten , in mools they're rotten , Behold ...
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... mind the circumstances which he had previously experienced in connection with that liquid ; and hence he recalled the idea of making wine , or tasting wine , or drinking wine ; consequently the two terms thus combined he natu- rally ...
... mind the circumstances which he had previously experienced in connection with that liquid ; and hence he recalled the idea of making wine , or tasting wine , or drinking wine ; consequently the two terms thus combined he natu- rally ...
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... mind upon fire , as the instrument by which this is done ; but when in another place , Il . ix . 242 , he writes , Auras de pagos pakejou mugos , that he would burn them FROM fire , he directs the attention backward to fire , as the ...
... mind upon fire , as the instrument by which this is done ; but when in another place , Il . ix . 242 , he writes , Auras de pagos pakejou mugos , that he would burn them FROM fire , he directs the attention backward to fire , as the ...
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Page 368 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 497 - They are too voluminous for a complete translation of the whole; and what they contain would hardly reward the labour of the reader; much less that of the translator.
Page 405 - There was not a village in England that had not a ghost in it; the churchyards were all haunted; every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it; and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit.
Page 185 - The Grecian commonwealths, while they maintained their liberty, were the most heroic confederacy that ever existed. They were the politest, the bravest, and the wisest of men. In the short space of little more than a century, they became such statesmen, warriors, orators, historians, physicians, poets, critics, painters, sculptors, architects, and, last of all, philosophers, that one can hardly help considering that golden period as a providential event in honour of human nature, to show to what...
Page 403 - ... a man of that strictness of conscience, that he gave over the practice of the law, because he could not understand the reason of giving colour in pleadings, which as he thought was to tell a lie ; and that, with some other things commonly practised, seemed to him contrary to that exactness of truth and justice which became a Christian ; so that he withdrew himself from the inns of court, to live on his estate in the country.
Page 296 - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden...
Page 107 - Treatise on the Education of Daughters, translated from the French, and adapted to English Readers, with an original Chapter on Religious Studies.
Page 279 - There is no reason to suppose that any commodity has on this account risen in it* price or value. The cause that these evils do not now exist results from a change in the practice and opinion of the people, with reference to the principal measure of property. The Silver Coins are no longer the principal measure of property...
Page 115 - When they first landed, they were bands of fierce, ignorant, idolatrous, and superstitious pirates, enthusiastically courageous, but habitually cruel. Yet from such ancestors a nation has, in the course of twelve centuries, been formed, which, inferior to none in every moral and intellectual merit, is superior to every other in the love and possession of useful liberty: a nation which cultivates with equal success the elegancies of art, the ingenious labours of industry, the energies of war, the...
Page 231 - ... where my forefathers feast Daily on hearts of Spaniards ! — O my son, I feel the venom busy in my breast, Approach, and bring my crown, deck'd with the teeth Of that bold Christian who first dar'd...