The Monthly Review, Or, Literary JournalR. Griffiths, 1817 |
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... existence . On searching , however , into the remote annals of the Chinese history , some reason appears for supposing that the small - pox has been long known in that extensive empire , and in the neighbouring islands of Japan . Some ...
... existence . On searching , however , into the remote annals of the Chinese history , some reason appears for supposing that the small - pox has been long known in that extensive empire , and in the neighbouring islands of Japan . Some ...
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... existence of an extensive conspiracy previously to the return of Bonaparte from Elba . By way of adding_fuel to the flame , the English editor , in his historical notice of Fouché , enlarges with extraordinary vehemence on the former ...
... existence of an extensive conspiracy previously to the return of Bonaparte from Elba . By way of adding_fuel to the flame , the English editor , in his historical notice of Fouché , enlarges with extraordinary vehemence on the former ...
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... existence of a Supreme Cause , deduced from abstract and metaphysical ar- gumentation , are capable of being apprehended only by a few individuals of leisure and learning : but the works of creation exhibit , in language intelligible to ...
... existence of a Supreme Cause , deduced from abstract and metaphysical ar- gumentation , are capable of being apprehended only by a few individuals of leisure and learning : but the works of creation exhibit , in language intelligible to ...
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... existence : ' - ' the whole are : ' - ' from hence , ' from thence , ' and ' from whence , ' though too much sanctioned by usage , are not less tautolo- gical than to hither , to whither , & c . The principal use for which camomile ...
... existence : ' - ' the whole are : ' - ' from hence , ' from thence , ' and ' from whence , ' though too much sanctioned by usage , are not less tautolo- gical than to hither , to whither , & c . The principal use for which camomile ...
Page 153
... existence of the Moorish pirates on the coast of the Mediterranean may be explained as ' favourable to the formation of a great commercial sys- tem , which should direct its activity to the navigation of the ocean . ' Effects of Climate ...
... existence of the Moorish pirates on the coast of the Mediterranean may be explained as ' favourable to the formation of a great commercial sys- tem , which should direct its activity to the navigation of the ocean . ' Effects of Climate ...
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Page 302 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Page 301 - Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mixed essence, make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and lofty will, Till our mortality predominates, And men are — what they name not to themselves, And trust not to each other.
Page 300 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; «° They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
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Page 284 - Nymph of a fair, but erring line ! " Gently he said — "One hope is thine. Tis written in the Book of Fate, The Peri yet may be forgiven Who brings to this Eternal Gate The Gift that is most dear to Heaven ! Go, seek it, and redeem thy sin — Tis sweet to let the Pardon'd in ! " Rapidly as comets run To th...
Page 286 - Cheer'd by this hope, she bends her thither ; — Still laughs the radiant eye of heaven, Nor have the golden bowers of even In the rich west begun to wither ; — When, o'er the vale of Balbec winging Slowly, she sees a child at play, Among the rosy wild-flowers singing, As rosy and as wild as they ; Chasing, with eager hands and eyes, The beautiful blue damsel-flies, That flutter'd round the jasmine stems, Like winged flowers or flying gems...
Page 287 - And how felt he, the wretched Man reclining there — while memory ran o'er many a year of guilt and strife, flew o'er the dark flood of his life, nor found one sunny resting-place, nor brought him back one branch of grace !
Page 304 - Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome ; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin ; from afar The watchdog bay'd beyond the Tiber ; and More near from out the Caesars...