The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 101,Deel 2;Volume 150F. Jefferies, 1831 The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs. |
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Pagina 3
... English History , one of Roger de Hovedon's , and others relative to the same subject ; various rentals , car- tularies , & c . & c . There is also a very splendid manuscript on vellum of the Acts and the Apocalypse , on 4 . the first ...
... English History , one of Roger de Hovedon's , and others relative to the same subject ; various rentals , car- tularies , & c . & c . There is also a very splendid manuscript on vellum of the Acts and the Apocalypse , on 4 . the first ...
Pagina 10
... English character . The flanks are uniform . They are each made into eight divisions by slender buttresses which rise to a cornice , the elevation being finished with a pierced parapet continued from the west front ; above the ...
... English character . The flanks are uniform . They are each made into eight divisions by slender buttresses which rise to a cornice , the elevation being finished with a pierced parapet continued from the west front ; above the ...
Pagina 17
... English characters , claim particular attention : ICI GIST MORICE DE LVNDRES LE FVNDUR DEU LI RENDE SUN LABUR . AM . In the southern transcript is an an- cient altar - tomb , supporting a knight in armour , a shield on his left arm ...
... English characters , claim particular attention : ICI GIST MORICE DE LVNDRES LE FVNDUR DEU LI RENDE SUN LABUR . AM . In the southern transcript is an an- cient altar - tomb , supporting a knight in armour , a shield on his left arm ...
Pagina 27
... English only . There is also a brief , but very select and comprehen- sive English - Greek Vocabulary , which , could the limits of the work have per- mitted , might have been enlarged , with advantage to the student . There is also ...
... English only . There is also a brief , but very select and comprehen- sive English - Greek Vocabulary , which , could the limits of the work have per- mitted , might have been enlarged , with advantage to the student . There is also ...
Pagina 34
... English nobility , who , " to the splendour of a gorgeous equipage , attached musicians constantly attendant upon him , not on state occasions , but in his journeys and visits ; a brace of tall negroes with silver French horns behind ...
... English nobility , who , " to the splendour of a gorgeous equipage , attached musicians constantly attendant upon him , not on state occasions , but in his journeys and visits ; a brace of tall negroes with silver French horns behind ...
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Pagina 118 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Pagina 297 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Pagina 140 - There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions . of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.
Pagina 125 - when Dr. Johnson, one day, read his own Satire, in which the life of a scholar is painted, with the various obstructions thrown in his way to fortune and to fame, he burst into a passion of tears : Mr.
Pagina 225 - Johnson's own notions about eating however were nothing less than delicate : a leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal pie with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef, were his favourite dainties : with regard to drink, his liking was for the strongest, as it was not the flavour, but the effect he sought for, and professed to desire ; and when I first knew him, he used to pour capillaire into his Port wine. For the last twelve years however, he left off all...
Pagina 227 - The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction; pale, torpid, spiritless and helpless; gasping and groaning unpitied, among men made obdurate by long continuance...
Pagina 307 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Pagina 126 - Boswell has chosen to omit, for reasons which will be presently obvious, that Johnson and Adam Smith met at Glasgow ; but I have been assured by Professor John Miller that they did so, and that Smith, leaving the party in which he had met Johnson, happened to come to another company where Miller was.