Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Boywer, Printer, F.S.A. and Many of His Learned Friends; an Incidental View of the Progress and Advancement of Literature in this Kingdom During the Last Century; and Biographical Anecdotes of a Considerable Number of Eminent Writers and Ingenious Artists; with a Very Copious Index, Volume 1

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author, 1812

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Pagina 52 - Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines ; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat ; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls ; yet I will rejoice in the Lord, and joy in the God of my salvation.
Pagina 178 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE , Of YORK. MARINER: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of AMERICA, near the Mouth of the Great River of OROONOQUE; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. WITH An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by PYRATES. Written by Himself.
Pagina 51 - Satan, hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in all the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and escheweth evil ? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, dost Job fear God for nought?
Pagina 427 - So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous : verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Pagina 695 - Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation, in a low estate ; And uncorrupted...
Pagina 125 - Anglicantf ; or, an Essay towards deducing a regular Succession of all the principal Dignitaries in each Cathedral, Collegiate Church, or Chapel (now in being), in those Parts of Great Britain called England and Wales, from the first Erection thereof to the present Year 1715 ; containing...
Pagina 395 - Nov. 2, 1713, Dr. Swift came into the coffeehouse, and had a bow from every body but me, who, I confess, could not but despise him.
Pagina 420 - ... you may be a physician or an author, and want some recipe or quotation ; and, if you buy it, I will engage it to be perfect before you leave me, but not after ; as I have suffered by leaves being torn out, and the books returned, to my very great loss and prejudice.
Pagina 663 - COLE." f Camdea's Britannia, Cambridgeshire, vol. II. p. 143*. daughter of Theophilus Tuer, of Cambridge, Merchant. He was educated in the College of Eton, and from thence removed to Clare Hall in the University of Cambridge*. In the former part of his life, and while he resided in the University, (which he did for 20 years,) he was in the Commission of the Peace for the County of Cambridge, and acted for many years in that capacity ; and one of his Majesty's Deputy-lieutenants for the said County;...
Pagina 367 - Medicina Gymnastica ; or, a Treatise concerning the Power of Exercise, with respect to the Animal (Economy ; and the great necessity of it in the Cure of several Distempers. By Francis Fuller, MA" which obtained an especial Imprimatur from Dr.

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