Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle, Volume 14James Maxwell, 1819 - Books |
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... scarcely any show at a small distance . The walls of those hovels are commonly mud , or some- times matting , set up edge - wise , and thatched with rice - straw , or flags , and sometimes tiled . The grounds are divided into small lots ...
... scarcely any show at a small distance . The walls of those hovels are commonly mud , or some- times matting , set up edge - wise , and thatched with rice - straw , or flags , and sometimes tiled . The grounds are divided into small lots ...
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... to him with a sofrowful heart , but I had scarcely been with him a minute , when he made me laugh · more heartily , than perhaps I had ever done in Gessner and his Works . 15 The qualities which are necessary to fulfil the duties of ...
... to him with a sofrowful heart , but I had scarcely been with him a minute , when he made me laugh · more heartily , than perhaps I had ever done in Gessner and his Works . 15 The qualities which are necessary to fulfil the duties of ...
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... scarcely be said to have existence . Plus un auteur est ingenieux , et plus il obscurcit la ma- tière quil n'entend pas . ' Does it not occur to him that he has changed places with our orthoepists , whom he accuses of studying only ...
... scarcely be said to have existence . Plus un auteur est ingenieux , et plus il obscurcit la ma- tière quil n'entend pas . ' Does it not occur to him that he has changed places with our orthoepists , whom he accuses of studying only ...
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... scarcely worthy of notice , the happier discoveries of Walker . The latter lexicographer does not even insinu- ate that the sound of the letter t , when followed by u , is always changed into ch or tsh : on the contrary , he says it ...
... scarcely worthy of notice , the happier discoveries of Walker . The latter lexicographer does not even insinu- ate that the sound of the letter t , when followed by u , is always changed into ch or tsh : on the contrary , he says it ...
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... scarcely succeed in any other idiom . The sound of the long u after the greater number of our consonants , is undoubtedly that of the pronoun you , or ee and oo , ' slurred in a particular manner : ' but this diphthongal sound , even ...
... scarcely succeed in any other idiom . The sound of the long u after the greater number of our consonants , is undoubtedly that of the pronoun you , or ee and oo , ' slurred in a particular manner : ' but this diphthongal sound , even ...
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Page 105 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Page 329 - All that he had ever heard - all that he had ever read - when compared with it dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun.
Page 342 - For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Page 219 - Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Page 481 - History of the House of Austria. From the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh to the Death of Leopold II., 1218-1792.
Page 449 - tis nought to me: Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full; And where He vital spreads there must be joy.
Page 431 - 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...
Page 156 - ... blue sky is o'er thee, Thy bosom Pleasure's shrine ; And thine the sunbeam given To Nature's morning hour, Pure, warm, as when from heaven It burst on Eden's bower. There is a song of sorrow, The death-dirge of the gay, That tells, ere dawn of morrow, These charms may melt away, That sun's bright beam be shaded, That sky be blue no more, The summer flowers be faded, And youth's warm promise o'er. Believe it not — though lonely Thy evening home may be; Though Beauty's bark can only Float on...
Page 191 - Congress, to the maintenance of which independence we solemnly pledge to each other our mutual cooperation, our lives, our fortunes and our most sacred honor. 4. Resolved, that as we now acknowledge the existence and control of no law or legal officer, civil or military, within this county, we do hereby ordain and adopt as a rule of life all, each and every of our former laws — wherein nevertheless the Crown of Great Britain never can be considered as holding rights, privileges, immunities, or...
Page 291 - Prologue will show, was composed under a belief that the Imagination not only does not require for its exercise the intervention of supernatural agency, but that, though such agency be excluded, the faculty may be called forth as imperiously, and for kindred results of pleasure, by incidents, within the compass of poetic probability, in the humblest departments of daily life.