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... present work makes the following apology , which we recommend to the attentive confideration of all whom it may concern : I cannot indeed but think , that the judgement of the publick , upon the refpective merits of the different ...
... present work makes the following apology , which we recommend to the attentive confideration of all whom it may concern : I cannot indeed but think , that the judgement of the publick , upon the refpective merits of the different ...
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... present remains of the church , monaftery , tombs , inscriptions , & c . Some copper military antiquities difcovered in a mofs , a few years ago , led the Rev. Mr. Grant into a differtation on the Roman Hafa and Pilum , and an inquiry ...
... present remains of the church , monaftery , tombs , inscriptions , & c . Some copper military antiquities difcovered in a mofs , a few years ago , led the Rev. Mr. Grant into a differtation on the Roman Hafa and Pilum , and an inquiry ...
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... present and their antient names : -but we are to expect a more particular account in a volume which is to fucceed the prefen , under the title of Excurfions . Of this volume an account will be given in our next Review . -The engravings ...
... present and their antient names : -but we are to expect a more particular account in a volume which is to fucceed the prefen , under the title of Excurfions . Of this volume an account will be given in our next Review . -The engravings ...
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... present fate , of the Royal Academy of this country , enter tain a doubt that it has contributed very effentially to the im- provement of the fine arts , when , before its inftitution , they are well known to have been in an extremely ...
... present fate , of the Royal Academy of this country , enter tain a doubt that it has contributed very effentially to the im- provement of the fine arts , when , before its inftitution , they are well known to have been in an extremely ...
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... present , a valley in its room , containing very strong proofs of its own formation in the ftratum of fand and pebbles with which its fides are covered . ' Mr. G. imagines that the bed of every river would undergo infenfible changes ...
... present , a valley in its room , containing very strong proofs of its own formation in the ftratum of fand and pebbles with which its fides are covered . ' Mr. G. imagines that the bed of every river would undergo infenfible changes ...
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Page 261 - Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
Page 260 - What hands are here ? ha ! they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand ? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Page 267 - I fed on the smiles of my dear? They tell me, my favourite maid, The pride of that valley, is flown; Alas ! where with her I have stray'd, I could wander with pleasure, alone.
Page 351 - That the Supreme Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies of a civil nature, where a state is a party, except between a state and its citizens; and except also between a state and citizens of other states, or aliens, in which latter case it shall have original but not exclusive jurisdiction.
Page 124 - J came up to the opening, where the wood was fo thick, that I had neither room to turn my horfe round, nor to get on one fide. I was therefore obliged to abandon him to his fate, and take refuge in a tolerably high tree, up which I climbed.
Page 570 - LAILI'S frantick lover lives in song. Not he, who reasons best, this wisdom knows : Ears only drink what rapt'rous tongues disclose. Nor fruitless deem the reed's heart-piercing pain : See sweetness dropping from the parted cane. Alternate hope and fear my days divide: I courted Grief, and Anguish was my bride. Flow on, sad stream of life!
Page 465 - Treasury is concerned, would be like taking money out of one pocket and putting it in the other.
Page 150 - The heads of a fpeech to the fame purpofe by Mr. Sydenham are added ; and the author relates the refult of the motion, that the queftion, in a houfe of 263 members, was negatived by a majority of 32 voices only. He adds, * No attempt at parliamentary reform, in any...
Page 263 - You wait on nature's mifchief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunneft fmoke of hell ! That my keen knife fee not the wound it makes ; Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold!
Page 570 - With me, from native banks untimely torn, Love-warbling youths and soft-ey'd virgins mourn. O ! let the heart, by fatal absence rent, Feel what I sing, and bleed when I lament: Who roams in exile from his parent bow'r, Pants to return, and chides each ling'ring hour.