The Monthly Magazine, Volume 17

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R. Phillips, 1804
 

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Pagina 340 - I have not leisure to write much. But I could chide thee that in many of thy Letters thou writest to me, That I should not be unmindful of thee and thy little ones. Truly, if I love you not too well, I think I err not on the other hand much. Thou art dearer to me than any creature; let that suffice.
Pagina 462 - Substance of a Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Pelham, on the State of Mendicity in the Metropolis.
Pagina 56 - Bibliographical Dictionary, containing a Chronological Account, alphabetically arranged, of the most curious, scarce, useful, and important books, in all Departments of Literature, which have been published in Latin, Greek, Coptic, Hebrew, Samaritan, Syriac, Chaldee, Ethiopic, Arabic, Persian, Armenian, &c, from the Infancy of Printing to the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Pagina 461 - Sir Tristrem ; a Metrical Romance of The Thirteenth Century ; by Thomas of Ercildoune, called The Rhymer.
Pagina 37 - far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.
Pagina 347 - The natural proofs of a future state appear to be so much invalidated by the rejection of a separate principle, the seat of thought, which may escape from the perishing body to which it is temporarily united, that he seemed to have been employed in demolishing one of the great pillars upon which religion is founded. It is enough here to observe, that in Dr Priestley's mind, the deficiency of these natural proofs only operated as an additional argument in favour of revelation ; the necessity of which,...
Pagina 37 - Boldly I preach, hate a cross, hate a surplice, Mitres, copes, and rochets ; Come hear me pray nine times a day, And fill your heads with crotchets.
Pagina 350 - On Monday morning, the 6th of February, on being asked how he did, he answered, in a faint voice, that he had no pain; but appeared fainting away gradually. About eight o'clock he desired to have three pamphlets, which had been looked out by his directions the evening before.
Pagina 355 - VOLNEY'S View of the Climate and Soil of the United States of America, with some Accounts of Florida, the Indians, and Vocabulary of the Miama tribe.
Pagina 158 - Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet: including Memoirs of his Near Friend and Kinsman, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster: with Sketches' of the Manners, Opinions, Arts and Literature of England in the Fourteenth Century.

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