The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volume 4A. Donaldson, 1761 |
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... majesty in council that I must be conveyed . I anfwered in few words , but to no purpose , and made a fign with my hand that was loofe , putting it to the other ( but over his excellency's head , for fear of hurting him or his train ) ...
... majesty in council that I must be conveyed . I anfwered in few words , but to no purpose , and made a fign with my hand that was loofe , putting it to the other ( but over his excellency's head , for fear of hurting him or his train ) ...
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... majesty spoke often to me , and I returned answers ; but neither of us could understand a fyllable . There were feveral of his priests and lawyers prefent , ( as I conjectured by their habits ) who were com- manded to addrefs themselves ...
... majesty spoke often to me , and I returned answers ; but neither of us could understand a fyllable . There were feveral of his priests and lawyers prefent , ( as I conjectured by their habits ) who were com- manded to addrefs themselves ...
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... majesty gave affignments pon his treafury . For this prince lives chiefly upon his own demefnes , feldom , except ... majesty's great- eft scholars should be employed to inftruct me in their language : : Janguage and lastly , that the ...
... majesty gave affignments pon his treafury . For this prince lives chiefly upon his own demefnes , feldom , except ... majesty's great- eft scholars should be employed to inftruct me in their language : : Janguage and lastly , that the ...
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... Majesty's chief room of ftate . In the left pocket we faw a huge filver cheft , with a cover of the fame metal , which we the fearchers were not able to lift . We defired it should be opened , and one of us ftepping into it , found ...
... Majesty's chief room of ftate . In the left pocket we faw a huge filver cheft , with a cover of the fame metal , which we the fearchers were not able to lift . We defired it should be opened , and one of us ftepping into it , found ...
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... Majesty's great chamber of state , where the canditates are to undergo a trial of dexterity very different from the former , and fuch as I have not observed the least resemblance of in any other country of the old or new world . The Em ...
... Majesty's great chamber of state , where the canditates are to undergo a trial of dexterity very different from the former , and fuch as I have not observed the least resemblance of in any other country of the old or new world . The Em ...
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Page 170 - It is true, upon experiment they found the charge and trouble very great, and they had little or no crop. However, it is not doubted that this invention may be capable of great improvement. I...
Page 126 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Page 213 - In talking, they forget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations. For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory will not serve to carry them from the beginning of a sentence to the end...
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Page 149 - Their heads were all reclined either to the right or the left ; one of their eyes turned inward, and the other directly up to the zenith. Their outward garments were adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars, interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords, and many other instruments of music, unknown to us in Europe.
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Page 125 - I told him of an invention discovered between three and four hundred years ago, to make a certain powder, into an heap of which the smallest spark of fire falling, would kindle the whole in a moment, although it were as big as a mountain, and make it all fly up in the air together, with a noise and agitation greater than thunder.
Page 168 - I was received very kindly by the Warden, and went for many days to the Academy. Every room hath in it one or more projectors, and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms. The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged and singed in several places. His clothes, shirt, and skin, were all of the same colour.
Page 310 - I have consulted the star of his nativity by my own rules, and find he will infallibly die upon the 29th of March next, about eleven at night, of a raging fever ; therefore I advise him to consider of it, and settle his affairs in time.