The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register, Volume 5R. Phillips, 1798 - British periodicals |
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... friends have imagined ; and that , whatever may be the change in the fentiments of the higher claffes , and the ignorant apathy of the lowest , the middle ranks , in whom the great mass of information , and of public and private virtue ...
... friends have imagined ; and that , whatever may be the change in the fentiments of the higher claffes , and the ignorant apathy of the lowest , the middle ranks , in whom the great mass of information , and of public and private virtue ...
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... friends all poffible fuccefs . Their good fenfe will of courfe fuggeft the propriety of obtaining copies of the rules of as many other Reading Societies as they can meet with , in order to felect the best from each , and to form a ...
... friends all poffible fuccefs . Their good fenfe will of courfe fuggeft the propriety of obtaining copies of the rules of as many other Reading Societies as they can meet with , in order to felect the best from each , and to form a ...
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... friends who might be influenced to approve a plan on which they are by no means competent to decide . But , even in this cafe , the Directors would certainly have bestowed on the plan the attention to which it might appear to be ...
... friends who might be influenced to approve a plan on which they are by no means competent to decide . But , even in this cafe , the Directors would certainly have bestowed on the plan the attention to which it might appear to be ...
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... friends , my native shore , And I could here be happy- EDWARD . -Oli forgive Th ' impatient guilty wretch that ... FRIEND BY THE SEA - SIDE . " TR RUST not " he laid , " the dangerous fea , " Which fmiles too often to deceive , " Ah ...
... friends , my native shore , And I could here be happy- EDWARD . -Oli forgive Th ' impatient guilty wretch that ... FRIEND BY THE SEA - SIDE . " TR RUST not " he laid , " the dangerous fea , " Which fmiles too often to deceive , " Ah ...
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... amiable in private life ; the most zealous of his friends , on the other hand , muft confefs , that , if not criminal , he was at least unfortunate , was G 2 in 46 ceed directly to extremities , he fent fe- veral 1798.] ...
... amiable in private life ; the most zealous of his friends , on the other hand , muft confefs , that , if not criminal , he was at least unfortunate , was G 2 in 46 ceed directly to extremities , he fent fe- veral 1798.] ...
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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...