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... beautiful , which now bears the name of ALATE publication , entitled Proofs Eden . This diftrict lies in the center of of a Confpiracy , & c . by Profeffor ROBISON , has excited my great furprize ; and I am at a lofs to conceive how ...
... beautiful , which now bears the name of ALATE publication , entitled Proofs Eden . This diftrict lies in the center of of a Confpiracy , & c . by Profeffor ROBISON , has excited my great furprize ; and I am at a lofs to conceive how ...
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... beautiful and admirable pieces of compofition which the mind of man is capable of framing , yet nothing has been fo little understood , or fo fhamefully abufed . Of the truth of this obfervation , the philofophic part of your readers ...
... beautiful and admirable pieces of compofition which the mind of man is capable of framing , yet nothing has been fo little understood , or fo fhamefully abufed . Of the truth of this obfervation , the philofophic part of your readers ...
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... beautiful than fublime . That your readers may be ftill farther convinced of this , I fhall fubjoin the divi- hon of fables given by the Platonic philo- fopher Salluft , in his elegant Treatife on the Gods and the World : " Of fables ...
... beautiful than fublime . That your readers may be ftill farther convinced of this , I fhall fubjoin the divi- hon of fables given by the Platonic philo- fopher Salluft , in his elegant Treatife on the Gods and the World : " Of fables ...
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... beautiful , Lyris and , Lyris , either thou art mad , Or haft no looking - glafs ; doft thou not know Thy paint - beplafter'd forehead , broad and bare , With not a grey lock left , thy mouth fo black , And that invincible breath ? We ...
... beautiful , Lyris and , Lyris , either thou art mad , Or haft no looking - glafs ; doft thou not know Thy paint - beplafter'd forehead , broad and bare , With not a grey lock left , thy mouth fo black , And that invincible breath ? We ...
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... beautiful parts of North Wales , Llangollen , Llanwft , Conway , Bangor , and Bangor Ferry , as far as to Holy - head , where I embarked on board one of his majefty's packets for Dublin . This veffel fets fail every evening ( Tuefday ...
... beautiful parts of North Wales , Llangollen , Llanwft , Conway , Bangor , and Bangor Ferry , as far as to Holy - head , where I embarked on board one of his majefty's packets for Dublin . This veffel fets fail every evening ( Tuefday ...
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Page 323 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour ; The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 285 - I do, his private character, I wished to make him the happy instrument of alleviating the horrors of hopeless captivity, when the brave are overpowered and made prisoners of war. It was perhaps, fortunate for you, Madam, that he was from home, for it was my intention to have taken him on board the Ranger, and to have detained him until, through his means, a general and fair exchange of prisoners, as well in Europe as in America, had been effected.
Page 85 - Nor knowing us nor known; and if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries. But prayer against His absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind, Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to His great bidding I submit.
Page 10 - But we may perceive the mixed kind of fables, as well in many other particulars, as when they relate that Discord, at a banquet of the gods, threw a golden apple, and that a dispute about it arising among the goddesses, they were sent by Jupiter to take the judgment of Paris, who, charmed with the beauty of Venus, gave her the apple in preference to the rest.
Page 286 - Though I have drawn my sword in the present generous struggle for the rights of men, yet I am not in arms as an American, nor am I in pursuit of riches.
Page 357 - ... of wood, and water, and buildings, leaves not one trace in the memory; historical painting is perpetually false in a variety of ways, in the costume, the grouping, the portraits, and is nothing more than fabulous painting; but a real portrait is truth itself, and calls up so many collateral ideas as to fill an intelligent mind more than any other species.
Page 364 - I remember,) and courting the attornies' clerks for scraps. The extraordinary observance and diligence of the boy, made the society willing to do him good. He appeared very ambitious to learn to write ; and one of the attornies got a board knocked up at a window on the top of a staircase ; and that was his desk, where he sat and wrote after copies of court and other hands the clerks gave him.
Page 169 - ... more to establish with children, than that of their speaking truth ; and there is not any in which we succeed worse. And why? Because children readily see we have an interest in it. Their speaking truth is used by us as an engine of government—" Tell me, my dear child, when you have broken any thing, and I will not be angry with you."
Page 487 - Heart of Every Man and Woman in Great Britain, respecting the Threatened French Invasion and the Importance of immediately coming forward with Voluntary Contributions. London, 1798.
Page 261 - Esq. was digging a well near his house. At the depth of twentyfive or thirty feet from the surface of the earth, the labourers threw out with their shovels something which they suspected to be ground-nuts, or stones covered with earth. Upon examining these appearances, they were found to be frogs, to which the earth every where adhered. The examination was then made of the earth, in the well where they were digging ; a large number of frogs were found covered with the earth, and so numerous that...