A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 2John Walker Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... whole year , and two remarkable drawings in gold highly embossed , of the sacred vessels and utensils of the ancient Jews . A Hebrew bible , with small Masoretic notes , adorned with miniature paintings , written in the 14th century . A ...
... whole year , and two remarkable drawings in gold highly embossed , of the sacred vessels and utensils of the ancient Jews . A Hebrew bible , with small Masoretic notes , adorned with miniature paintings , written in the 14th century . A ...
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... whole written in capitals , and allowed to be 1200 years old . In this MS . it is observable , that the genealogy of our blessed Saviour appears to be distinct , and separated from St. Matthew's gospel . The following words , in two ...
... whole written in capitals , and allowed to be 1200 years old . In this MS . it is observable , that the genealogy of our blessed Saviour appears to be distinct , and separated from St. Matthew's gospel . The following words , in two ...
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... whole word , and then after join- ing and cementing all these parts , thus collected into one word , you are called upon and invited to a wild goose chace * , to trace out and extract the wonderful mystery that lies co- vered and ...
... whole word , and then after join- ing and cementing all these parts , thus collected into one word , you are called upon and invited to a wild goose chace * , to trace out and extract the wonderful mystery that lies co- vered and ...
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... whole force of whatever can be produced to prove that the Eikon Basilikè , was not written by King Charles I. As the ques- tion has been lately revived , we wish that some of our cor- respondents would contract the arguments , on the ...
... whole force of whatever can be produced to prove that the Eikon Basilikè , was not written by King Charles I. As the ques- tion has been lately revived , we wish that some of our cor- respondents would contract the arguments , on the ...
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... whole night to transcribe it , Allen himself sitting up with him , to make up his fire and snuff his candles . It is also recorded by Sir William Dugdale , who was per- fectly acquainted with the transactions of his own times , that ...
... whole night to transcribe it , Allen himself sitting up with him , to make up his fire and snuff his candles . It is also recorded by Sir William Dugdale , who was per- fectly acquainted with the transactions of his own times , that ...
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Page 138 - And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
Page 320 - I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; — And take...
Page 302 - Under the opening eye-lids of the morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn...
Page 248 - Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether, though it were but for a while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself ; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular...
Page 75 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Page 321 - Glittering in golden coats, like images ; As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer ; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
Page 93 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Page 293 - On the other side; which, when the arch-felon saw, Due entrance he disdain'd ; and, in contempt, At one slight bound high overleap'd all bound Of hill or highest wall, and sheer within Lights on his feet. As when a prowling wolf, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey, Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve, In hurdled cotes amid the field secure, Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold...
Page 206 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Page 363 - Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next, and next all human race...