The Monthly Magazine, Volume 25Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1808 |
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... labours without any acknow ledgment from them , except a few in- considerable presents , and continued to preside over them till he was removed by death , February 2 , 1690 , in the sixty- third year of his age . He was buried in the ...
... labours without any acknow ledgment from them , except a few in- considerable presents , and continued to preside over them till he was removed by death , February 2 , 1690 , in the sixty- third year of his age . He was buried in the ...
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... labours of the country should be gin in spring , he thus expresses him- self : - Vere novo , gelidus canis cum montibus hu- mor Liquitur , et Zephyro putris se gleba resolvit ; Depresso incipiat jam tum inihi taurus ara- tro Ingemere ...
... labours of the country should be gin in spring , he thus expresses him- self : - Vere novo , gelidus canis cum montibus hu- mor Liquitur , et Zephyro putris se gleba resolvit ; Depresso incipiat jam tum inihi taurus ara- tro Ingemere ...
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... labours , and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain , Flies o'er the unbending corn , and skims along the main . Essay on Criticism . Johnson , indeed , has remarked , and endeavoured to prove , that Pope ...
... labours , and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain , Flies o'er the unbending corn , and skims along the main . Essay on Criticism . Johnson , indeed , has remarked , and endeavoured to prove , that Pope ...
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... labour are under nine - pence sterling per day ; added to this , that the produce of the olive trees , which have been found , when properly managed , to produce oil equal to that of Lucca , and of which samples may be procured , would ...
... labour are under nine - pence sterling per day ; added to this , that the produce of the olive trees , which have been found , when properly managed , to produce oil equal to that of Lucca , and of which samples may be procured , would ...
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... labour , in the above - mentioned Encyclopædia . His income was now so much reduced , that , for want of fuel and candle , he was obliged to suspend his studies during the long nights of winter . Some relief was afforded him , however ...
... labour , in the above - mentioned Encyclopædia . His income was now so much reduced , that , for want of fuel and candle , he was obliged to suspend his studies during the long nights of winter . Some relief was afforded him , however ...
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Page 32 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 21 - But I have greater witness than that of John ; for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
Page 320 - Others to sin, and made my sin their door .Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score ? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when...
Page 320 - ... though still I do deplore ? When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done, For I have more. " Wilt Thou forgive that sin, which I have won Others to sin, and made my sin their door?
Page 244 - Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute gave me a violent head-ache.
Page 158 - The head was covered with a dry skin ; one of the ears, well preserved, was furnished with a tuft of hairs.
Page 66 - We have it in command from his majesty, to inform you, that the determination of the enemy to excite hostilities between his majesty and his late allies, the emperors of Russia and Austria, and the king of Prussia, has been but too successful ; and that the ministers from those powers have demanded and received their passports. This measure, on the part of Russia, has been attempted to be justified by a statement of wrongs and grievances which have no real foundation. The emperor of Russia had indeed...
Page 318 - France : he said, he thought that was the best climate where he could be abroad in the air with pleasure, or at least without trouble and inconvenience, the most days of the year, and the most hours of the day ; and this, he thought, he could be in England, more than in any country he knew of in Europe.
Page 66 - No pretence of justification can be alleged for the hostile conduct of the emperor of Austria, or for that of his Prussian majesty. His majesty has not given the slightest ground of complaint to either of those sovereigns ; nor even at the...
Page 66 - His Majesty has commanded us to state to you that, in consequence of the decree by which France declared the whole of his Majesty's dominions to be in a state of blockade, and subjected to seizure and confiscation the produce and manufactures of his kingdom, his Majesty resorted, in the first instance, GEORGE Ш. ROYAL SPEECHES. to a measure of mitigated retaliation ; and that this measure having proved ineffectual...