The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History, and the Fine Arts, Volume 5Edward Mammatt Simpkin and Marshall, 1836 |
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... Esq . , were appointed family trustees , and the present Earl Cadogan and Lord Stanley are now the representatives of this trust . In 1704 , Dr. Sloane sustained a great affliction in 6 MEMOIR OF SIR HANS SLOANE , BART .
... Esq . , were appointed family trustees , and the present Earl Cadogan and Lord Stanley are now the representatives of this trust . In 1704 , Dr. Sloane sustained a great affliction in 6 MEMOIR OF SIR HANS SLOANE , BART .
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... presents an affecting , but consolatory , picture of the state of mind of this great and good man , at that awful period . " Dear Sir , -The best of friends : these are to take a final leave of you in this world . I look upon myself as ...
... presents an affecting , but consolatory , picture of the state of mind of this great and good man , at that awful period . " Dear Sir , -The best of friends : these are to take a final leave of you in this world . I look upon myself as ...
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... present of a hundred pounds , and remitted a very considerable sum owing to him by the corpo- ration . Sir Hans was no less liberal to other learned bodies ; he had no sooner purchased the manor of Chelsea than , in 1721 , he gave the ...
... present of a hundred pounds , and remitted a very considerable sum owing to him by the corpo- ration . Sir Hans was no less liberal to other learned bodies ; he had no sooner purchased the manor of Chelsea than , in 1721 , he gave the ...
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... present day . From this period till 1740 he devoted a great part of his time to the fulfilment of the duties of the high offices which he held , to the enlargement of his museum , and to the " diffusion of useful know- ledge : " not ...
... present day . From this period till 1740 he devoted a great part of his time to the fulfilment of the duties of the high offices which he held , to the enlargement of his museum , and to the " diffusion of useful know- ledge : " not ...
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... present illustrious royal family amongst us . as did " The gallery , one hundred and ten feet in length , presented a most surprising prospect ; the most beautiful corals , crystals , and figured stones , and feathers of birds vying ...
... present illustrious royal family amongst us . as did " The gallery , one hundred and ten feet in length , presented a most surprising prospect ; the most beautiful corals , crystals , and figured stones , and feathers of birds vying ...
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Page 69 - For, by the sacred radiance of the sun, The mysteries of Hecate, and the night ; By all the operations of the orbs, From whom we do exist, and cease to be...
Page 260 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet ; For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; nothing but thunder.
Page 65 - What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Page 200 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Page 47 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 64 - gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
Page 266 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Page 66 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Page 261 - Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year most part deformed, With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies, And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bowers.
Page 59 - There's fennel for you, and columbines; there's rue for you; and here's some for me; we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died.