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... completing the FOURTH VOLUME of this Work . The Articles contained in it are con- ceived to be highly valuable and ... complete , af every Bookfeller , price One Pound Nine Shillings , neatly half bound . 2 Dr.Rennellon the Pursuits of ...
... completing the FOURTH VOLUME of this Work . The Articles contained in it are con- ceived to be highly valuable and ... complete , af every Bookfeller , price One Pound Nine Shillings , neatly half bound . 2 Dr.Rennellon the Pursuits of ...
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... complete trial of one of thefe focieties could not be made in less than forty years , that my calculation went upon the ground of the allowance not be- ing leffened in fo great a proportion to a member , who might lie a long time fick ...
... complete trial of one of thefe focieties could not be made in less than forty years , that my calculation went upon the ground of the allowance not be- ing leffened in fo great a proportion to a member , who might lie a long time fick ...
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... from the celebrity of the fair at Troyest . Bishop Hooper , however , objects , with * Survey of London , Vol . II , p . 466 , Edit . 1755 . + Gloffar , v . Marca . great 16 A complete fet of troy and averdupois weights ,
... from the celebrity of the fair at Troyest . Bishop Hooper , however , objects , with * Survey of London , Vol . II , p . 466 , Edit . 1755 . + Gloffar , v . Marca . great 16 A complete fet of troy and averdupois weights ,
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... weight was never defigned for heavy articles . Other weights in the Exchequer are dated 1601 . * Strype's Stowe , II , 345 . + Philof , Tranfact , No. 470 . A complete . Reading Societies . To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine.
... weight was never defigned for heavy articles . Other weights in the Exchequer are dated 1601 . * Strype's Stowe , II , 345 . + Philof , Tranfact , No. 470 . A complete . Reading Societies . To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine.
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... complete fet of troy and averdupois weights , dated 1588 , were delivered to the churchwardens of the parish of St. Margaret , Weltminfler , perfuant to the proclamation of that year , and were feen , December 1749 , in fine ...
... complete fet of troy and averdupois weights , dated 1588 , were delivered to the churchwardens of the parish of St. Margaret , Weltminfler , perfuant to the proclamation of that year , and were feen , December 1749 , in fine ...
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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."
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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...