London Review of English and Foreign Literature, Volym 2Cox and Bigg, 1776 |
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... Bodies , by Admiral Knowles Harrison's Defcription concerning fuch Mechanifin as will afford a nice or true Menfuration of Time ; together with fome Account of the Attempts for the Difcovery of the Longitude by the Moon ; as alfo an ...
... Bodies , by Admiral Knowles Harrison's Defcription concerning fuch Mechanifin as will afford a nice or true Menfuration of Time ; together with fome Account of the Attempts for the Difcovery of the Longitude by the Moon ; as alfo an ...
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... irrefiftible force when once put in action , is far from being favourable to them ; as they lately experi- enced in a fignal intance , when the whole body of the legislature was was obliged by it to refcind their own act , 34 The Pilgrim .
... irrefiftible force when once put in action , is far from being favourable to them ; as they lately experi- enced in a fignal intance , when the whole body of the legislature was was obliged by it to refcind their own act , 34 The Pilgrim .
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... body to speak to . We travelled night and day , and arrived here on the 9th . You will fay , I fkip over the jour- ney very faft ; but what fhall I fay ? Our accommodation was one little fmoaky room , where we ftopped to change horses ...
... body to speak to . We travelled night and day , and arrived here on the 9th . You will fay , I fkip over the jour- ney very faft ; but what fhall I fay ? Our accommodation was one little fmoaky room , where we ftopped to change horses ...
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... body is preffed to it . As I ftill am amazed how rational minds can fall into this trifling yet dangerous amufement , I need not tell you , I am a fpectator , and moralife on human weakness , as , you know , Mifs Bell used to tell me ...
... body is preffed to it . As I ftill am amazed how rational minds can fall into this trifling yet dangerous amufement , I need not tell you , I am a fpectator , and moralife on human weakness , as , you know , Mifs Bell used to tell me ...
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... body was placed , the emperor came into the room , and talked to fome people a few mi- nutes ; he was brought from the houfe where the lodged in one of bis coaches , with her mother and fifter in the coach with her ; her brother , as ...
... body was placed , the emperor came into the room , and talked to fome people a few mi- nutes ; he was brought from the houfe where the lodged in one of bis coaches , with her mother and fifter in the coach with her ; her brother , as ...
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Sida 259 - My birth-day was ominous to my poor father, who was, the day after our arrival, with many other brave officers broke, and sent adrift into the wide world with a wife and two children...
Sida 260 - ... which it pleased God to give him full measure. He was, in his temper, somewhat rapid and hasty, but of a kindly sweet disposition, void of all design ; and so innocent in his own intentions that he suspected no one ; so that you might, have cheated him ten times in a day, if nine had not been sufficient for your purpose.
Sida 74 - Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigour of his authority in his centre is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Sida 309 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christopher's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Sida 153 - The rocks are high, bold, and grotesque; and the valley is divided by a river, along the banks of which are extended meadows and pastures of a perpetual verdure.
Sida 263 - If my enemies knew, that by this rage of abuse, and ill-will, they were effectually serving the interests both of myself, and works, they would be more quiet — but it has been the fate of my betters, who have found, that the way to fame, is like the way to Heaven — through much tribulation...
Sida 484 - The misery of gaols is not half their evil ; they are filled with every corruption which poverty and wickedness can generate between them; with all the shameless and profligate enormities that can be produced by the impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair. In a prison the awe of the...
Sida 516 - Portugal into the moft abject vaflalage ever experienced by a conquered nation. While the grandees of Portugal were blind to the ruin which impended over them, Camoens beheld it with a pungency of grief which haftened his exit. In one of his letters he has thefe remarkable words, " Em Jim accaberey a vida, e verram todos que fny afeicoada a minho patria, &c.
Sida 425 - Thy father made our yoke grievous : now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.
Sida 260 - It was in this parish, during our stay, that I had that wonderful escape in falling through a mill-race whilst the mill was going, and of being taken up unhurt : the story is incredible, but known for truth in all that part of Ireland, where hundreds of the common people flocked to see me.