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... Lord Chancellor March 228 363 April 307 Budgets , Account of , for 1798 383 May 398 Burke , Mr. on the Learning of 87 June 484 Anecdote of 23 Abernethy , Mr. his Mode of ventilating Ships Bute , Anecdote of 197 176 Cappe , Mrs. on ...
... Lord Chancellor March 228 363 April 307 Budgets , Account of , for 1798 383 May 398 Burke , Mr. on the Learning of 87 June 484 Anecdote of 23 Abernethy , Mr. his Mode of ventilating Ships Bute , Anecdote of 197 176 Cappe , Mrs. on ...
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... Lord Edward , Account of 478 Language , Aramic , two Dialects of 245 Flame , Lord , Memoirs of 416 of Natural History , on the 110 Fleming . Dr to Dr. Furneaux 363 Larn r , Dr. to Dr. Fleming 364 Flood , Mr. Account of his MS 174 Law ...
... Lord Edward , Account of 478 Language , Aramic , two Dialects of 245 Flame , Lord , Memoirs of 416 of Natural History , on the 110 Fleming . Dr to Dr. Furneaux 363 Larn r , Dr. to Dr. Fleming 364 Flood , Mr. Account of his MS 174 Law ...
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... Lord , Account of Musical Publications , Review of National Debt , on the 274 Philofophical Lectures in Glasgow Pinkerton , Mr. on the Iconographia Scotica 82 Pelletier , Biographical Notice of Perfonification , of Abstract Ideas on ...
... Lord , Account of Musical Publications , Review of National Debt , on the 274 Philofophical Lectures in Glasgow Pinkerton , Mr. on the Iconographia Scotica 82 Pelletier , Biographical Notice of Perfonification , of Abstract Ideas on ...
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... Lord 485 438 Boettiger Denis Aufere 522 489 Booker , Dr. 506 Churton 505 Devienne Bacon 375 4 : 4 Bofanquet 500 Clare , Earl of 222 Donovan Baden 139 518 Bancroft , Dr. 511 Borkhaufen , Dr. 516 Boucher Clayton , Sir R. 484 Dorn , Dr ...
... Lord 485 438 Boettiger Denis Aufere 522 489 Booker , Dr. 506 Churton 505 Devienne Bacon 375 4 : 4 Bofanquet 500 Clare , Earl of 222 Donovan Baden 139 518 Bancroft , Dr. 511 Borkhaufen , Dr. 516 Boucher Clayton , Sir R. 484 Dorn , Dr ...
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... Lord 505 138 Saunders , Mrs. Schlozer 510 Winchelfea , Lord 499 Herrefchwand 513 Yorke 489 485 Monroe 139 Seyer Hewlet 378 Young 3c6 Moody , Dr. " 491 Schiller 486 , 512 Hill , Sir Richard 381 Moore For Remarkable Perfons deceased , fee ...
... Lord 505 138 Saunders , Mrs. Schlozer 510 Winchelfea , Lord 499 Herrefchwand 513 Yorke 489 485 Monroe 139 Seyer Hewlet 378 Young 3c6 Moody , Dr. " 491 Schiller 486 , 512 Hill , Sir Richard 381 Moore For Remarkable Perfons deceased , fee ...
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Page 116 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 366 - 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 stair-case ; and that was his desk, where he sat and wrote after copies of court and other hands the clerks gave him. He made himself so expert a writer that he took in business, and earned some pence by hackney-writing.
Page 283 - 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 366 - ... desk where he sat and wrote after copies of court and other hands the clerks gave him. He made himself so expert a writer that he took in business and earned some pence by hackney-writing. And thus by degrees he pushed his faculties and fell to forms, and, by books that were lent him, became an exquisite entering clerk; and by the same course of improvement of himself, an able counsel first in special pleading then at large.
Page 436 - ... and incorrection, a master or two produces models formed by purity and taste; Virgil, Horace, Boileau, Corneille, Racine, Pope, exploded the licentiousness that reigned before them. What happened ? Nobody...
Page 366 - Saunders succeeded in the room of Pemberton. His character and his beginning were equally strange. He was at first no better than a poor beggar boy, if not a parish foundling, without known parents or relations. He had found a way to live by obsequiousness in Clement's Inn, as I remember, and courting the attorney's clerks for scraps.
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 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 356 - It feems as if he had juft come from the king's clofet, or from the apartments of the men whom he defcribes, and was telling his reader, in plain honeft terms, what he had feen and heard.
Page 85 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...