The Universal magazine, Volym 3

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1805

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Sida 12 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed. And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Sida 553 - their being proposed, immediately ballotted for ; and the name, with the addition and place of abode, of every other person proposing to become a member, is to be delivered to the Secretary, who is to read the...
Sida 295 - Fox, and begs leave to represent to him, that upon considering again and again what passed between them last night, it is impossible for him to have his character cleared to the public without inserting the following paragraph in the newspapers : " ' We have authority to assure the public that, in a conversation that passed between Mr. Fox and Mr. Adam, in consequence of the debate in the House of Commons on Thursday last, Mr. Fox declared that, however much his speech may have been misrepresented,...
Sida 553 - SOCIETY, it may be necessary to explain the mode by which i;s members continue to be elected. Each member has the privilege, at any weekly, meeting of the SOCIETY, of proposing any person who is desirous to become a member, provided such proposal is signed by three members of the SOCIETY. . Peers of the Realm or Lords of Parliament are, on their being proposed, 'immediately ballotted for; and the name, with the addition and place of abode, of every other person pro.
Sida 314 - ... mournful event. Not a moment was lost in repairing to his house. He was lying on his bed in a posture of meditation ; and the only symptom of remaining life was a small degree of motion in the heart, which, after a few seconds, ceased ; and he expired without a pang or groan.
Sida 255 - London, instead of common interludes, belonging to the theatre, has plays of a more holy subject ; representations of those miracles which the holy confessors wrought, or of the sufferings wherein the glorious constancy of the martyrs did appear.
Sida 336 - ... same degree as the corn is made light. Some corn of this year's crop will not yield a stone of flour from a sack of wheat ; and it is not impossible that in some cases the corn has been so completely robbed of its flour by the fungus, that if the proprietor should choose to incur the expense of thrashing and grinding it, bran would be the produce, with scarce an atom of flour for each grain. Every species of corn, properly so called, is subject to the blight ; but it is observable that spring...
Sida 314 - He had no suspicion at the time of the real nature of his indisposition, which proved in fact to be a complaint common in Bengal, an inflammation in the liver. The disorder was, however, soon discovered by the penetration of the physician, who after two or three days was called in to his assistance; but it had then advanced too far to yield to the efficacy of the medicines usually prescribed, and they were administered in vain. The progress of the complaint was uncommonly rapid, and terminated fatally...
Sida 227 - England, by freemen ; in fact, they are so carried on with infinitely more advantage ; for there is an alacrity in a consciousness of freedom, and a gloomy sullen indolence in a consciousness of slavery ; but let sugar be as dear as it may, it is better to eat none, to eat honey, if sweetness only be palatable ; better to eat aloes or coloquintida, than violate a primary law of nature, impressed on every heart not imbruted by avarice, than rob one human creature of those eternal rights of which no...
Sida 295 - SIR, I AM very sorry it is utterly inconsistent with my ideas of propriety, to authorize the putting any thing into the newspapers, relative to a speech which, in my opinion, required no explanation. You, who heard the speech, must know, that it did convey no personal reflection upon you, unless you felt yourself in the predicament upon which I animadverted. The account of my speech in the newspapers is certainly incorrect, and certainly unauthorized by me ; and therefore, with respect to them, I...

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