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 7
... Richard Brown , who is but a weak man in this business . The Lord Mayors went to Cripplegate , pulled " Sept. 5. It pleased his Majesty to command me , " says Evelyn , " among the rest , to look after the quenching of Fetter Lane , and ...
... Richard Brown , who is but a weak man in this business . The Lord Mayors went to Cripplegate , pulled " Sept. 5. It pleased his Majesty to command me , " says Evelyn , " among the rest , to look after the quenching of Fetter Lane , and ...
Pagina 12
... Richard II . , the present Chapel being in imitation of the archi- tecture of the period of Henry III . If these obnoxious pinnacles were thrown down the front would be much improved . The flanks are divided by pilaster - formed ...
... Richard II . , the present Chapel being in imitation of the archi- tecture of the period of Henry III . If these obnoxious pinnacles were thrown down the front would be much improved . The flanks are divided by pilaster - formed ...
Pagina 17
... Richard Hoare ascertained to be intended to commemorate a friend or follower of Moris de Londres . SIRE ROGER DE REMI . GISF ISCI . DEU DE SON ALME EIT MERCI . AM . There are many monuments of the Carne family , who were possessors of ...
... Richard Hoare ascertained to be intended to commemorate a friend or follower of Moris de Londres . SIRE ROGER DE REMI . GISF ISCI . DEU DE SON ALME EIT MERCI . AM . There are many monuments of the Carne family , who were possessors of ...
Pagina 18
... Richard , King Richard ! " In Cheap a conduit ran with wine , which was handed to the Royal visitants by a little boy apparel- led in white like an angel . At the The Committee appointed by the Corporation of London to make the ...
... Richard , King Richard ! " In Cheap a conduit ran with wine , which was handed to the Royal visitants by a little boy apparel- led in white like an angel . At the The Committee appointed by the Corporation of London to make the ...
Pagina 34
... Richard III . shows a rare instance in regard to the pleureurs or weepers , as the figures in niches around the base of table tombs were denominated . " At one end of this tomb are two shields with the arms of Stafford and Rivers [ his ...
... Richard III . shows a rare instance in regard to the pleureurs or weepers , as the figures in niches around the base of table tombs were denominated . " At one end of this tomb are two shields with the arms of Stafford and Rivers [ his ...
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Populaire passages
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.