A New History of Great Britain: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Present Time ...C. Law, 1803 - 455 pagina's |
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Pagina xix
... Character and Manners of the Anglo - Saxons and 88 Danes - 90 BOOK III . 1. Military Hiftory from the Norman Conques , A. D. 1066 , to the death of King John , A. D , 1216 3. Of the Anglo - Norman Conftitution , Government , 2. The ...
... Character and Manners of the Anglo - Saxons and 88 Danes - 90 BOOK III . 1. Military Hiftory from the Norman Conques , A. D. 1066 , to the death of King John , A. D , 1216 3. Of the Anglo - Norman Conftitution , Government , 2. The ...
Pagina xxiii
... Character see Monthly Review , June 1800 , page 204 , and London Review , July 1799 % page 88 . 3. LECTIONES SELECTÆ ; or , SELECT LATIN LESSONS in Morality , History , and Biography , better adapted to the Capacity of young Beginners ...
... Character see Monthly Review , June 1800 , page 204 , and London Review , July 1799 % page 88 . 3. LECTIONES SELECTÆ ; or , SELECT LATIN LESSONS in Morality , History , and Biography , better adapted to the Capacity of young Beginners ...
Pagina xxiv
... Character of the former Editions of this useful and correct Work fee Monthly Review , June 1799 , page 212 . The Author affures the Public that no Attention has been fpared to make this Edition , as comprehensive and complete as ...
... Character of the former Editions of this useful and correct Work fee Monthly Review , June 1799 , page 212 . The Author affures the Public that no Attention has been fpared to make this Edition , as comprehensive and complete as ...
Pagina 16
... characters of fome other kind , which , in fome measure , answered the fame purposes , both in making and re- cording their calculations . The letters of the Greek alphabet were probably used for both these purposes . This feems to be ...
... characters of fome other kind , which , in fome measure , answered the fame purposes , both in making and re- cording their calculations . The letters of the Greek alphabet were probably used for both these purposes . This feems to be ...
Pagina 32
... characters of nations , during their feveral periods . The ancient Britons were remarkable for the fize and ftature of their bodies , and for their fair comp- lexions . The women , in particular , excelled in the fairness and foftnefs ...
... characters of nations , during their feveral periods . The ancient Britons were remarkable for the fize and ftature of their bodies , and for their fair comp- lexions . The women , in particular , excelled in the fairness and foftnefs ...
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Pagina 376 - Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love, my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month; and Gay A week ; and Arbuthnot a day. St John himself will scarce forbear, To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug and cry I'm sorry; but we all must die.
Pagina 390 - The excellence of this work is not exactness, but copiousness ; particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power is in the whole ; and in the whole there is a magnificence like that ascribed to Chinese plantation, the magnificence of vast extent and endless diversity.
Pagina 254 - THE Lord descended from above, And bowed the heavens most high ; And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky. 2 On cherub and on cherubim, Full royally he rode ; And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad.
Pagina 394 - I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties which staggered me ; but I kept my mind open to conviction. The evidences and doctrines of Christianity, studied with attention, made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christian religion. I have made it the rule of my life, and it is the ground of my future hopes.
Pagina 400 - ... collate manuscripts — but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the...
Pagina 270 - Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it ; And what the word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Pagina 379 - It has been so long said as to be commonly believed, that the true characters of men may be found in their letters, and that he who writes to his friends lays his heart open before him. But the truth is, that such were the simple friendships of the "Golden Age," and are now the friendships only of children.
Pagina 124 - Lever a cinq, diner a neuf, Souper a cinq, coucher a neuf, Fait vivre d'ans nonante et neuf.
Pagina 153 - ... a coat, one half white, and the other half black or blue ; a long beard ; a silk hood buttoned under his chin, embroidered with grotesque figures of animals, dancing men, &c.
Pagina 370 - I have heard him frequently own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose, it was owing to his having often read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson.