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Pagina 13
... moft inconfiderable talents fhould afpire after the honours of literature . The fenfe , for example , of the following palage , though it is obvious , he has grofsly perverted : Qu'il eft fâcheux , ma chere Hortence , de fe voir dans un ...
... moft inconfiderable talents fhould afpire after the honours of literature . The fenfe , for example , of the following palage , though it is obvious , he has grofsly perverted : Qu'il eft fâcheux , ma chere Hortence , de fe voir dans un ...
Pagina 26
... Moft people , fays he , perform that operation after the fecond year ; but I am inclined to think this too early a period : efpecially if the quicksets be fmall . To cut down the main upright flem before it has gained a good fize , in ...
... Moft people , fays he , perform that operation after the fecond year ; but I am inclined to think this too early a period : efpecially if the quicksets be fmall . To cut down the main upright flem before it has gained a good fize , in ...
Pagina 36
... moft pleafing airy ap- pearance . I expected to fee nothing but wooden houses , but was agreeably furprised at the fight of many very fine fabrics of brick and ftone . It is beyond comparison a finer city than Petersburg . The number of ...
... moft pleafing airy ap- pearance . I expected to fee nothing but wooden houses , but was agreeably furprised at the fight of many very fine fabrics of brick and ftone . It is beyond comparison a finer city than Petersburg . The number of ...
Pagina 40
... moft of their lands were allodial , and very little held by tenure . The reafon I take to be this : On their fettlement in Britain they extirpated , or drove out , the old inhabitants , and therefore , being in no danger from them ...
... moft of their lands were allodial , and very little held by tenure . The reafon I take to be this : On their fettlement in Britain they extirpated , or drove out , the old inhabitants , and therefore , being in no danger from them ...
Pagina 45
... moft extraordi- nary paradox . But William the Conqueror , in fome inftances , and his fon in all , acted as defpotic princes ; therefore they had a right fo to do . I answer , the triumvirs profcribed hundreds of the best Romans ...
... moft extraordi- nary paradox . But William the Conqueror , in fome inftances , and his fon in all , acted as defpotic princes ; therefore they had a right fo to do . I answer , the triumvirs profcribed hundreds of the best Romans ...
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Pagina 362 - History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V.; with a View of the Progress of Society in Europe, from the Subversion of the Roman Empire to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century. By William Robertson, DD To which are added Questions for the Examination of Students.
Pagina 517 - De profundis in a full choir ; during the intervals of which, the ghost occasionally expressed the comfort he received from their pious exercises and ejaculations on his behalf.
Pagina 62 - Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honour; where there is more sense than wit ; more good nature than good humour ; and more wealth than pleasure : where a man would chuse rather to travel than to live ; shall find more things to observe than desire ; and more persons to esteem than to love.
Pagina 433 - Hence the green earth, and wild resounding waves; Hence light and shade alternate ; warmth and cold ; And clear autumnal skies, and vernal showers, And all the fair variety of things.
Pagina 202 - We have been here but little more than one hundred years, and yet the force of our privateers in the late war, united, was greater, both in men and guns, than that of the whole British navy in Queen Elizabeth's time.
Pagina 138 - S's amongst the shrubs of the border, upon which he is to go round, to look on one side at what he has already seen, the large green field ; and on the other side at the boundary, which is never more than a few yards from him, and always obtruding upon his sight : from time to time he perceives a little seat or temple stuck up against the wall ; he rejoices at the discovery, sits...
Pagina 520 - It is probable, that, previous to all experience, we should as little know whether a sound came from the right or left, from above or below, from a great or a small distance, as we should know whether it was the sound of a drum, or a bell, or a cart.
Pagina 516 - Wherever the banker conducted him, at every step, his ears were saluted on all sides with the complaints, and groans, not only of his father, but of all his deceased relations, imploring him for the love of God, and in the name of every saint in the calendar, to...
Pagina 434 - Imagination's tender frame, From nerve to nerve; all naked and alive They catch the spreading rays; till now the soul At length discloses every tuneful spring, To that harmonious movement from without Responsive.
Pagina 430 - The pleasures of the imagination proceed either from natural objects, as from a flourishing grove, a clear and murmuring fountain, a calm sea by moonlight; or from works of art, such as a noble edifice, a musical tune, a statue, a picture, a poem.