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... Letters from a French , 9 Allen , Paul , Review of , 125 General Lafayette , 397 Gresset , Translation from , 412 Burkhardt's letter to Sir Joseph Banks , 241 Horace , Odes of , 16 , 17 , 205 Second Supplement Hildesheim , Michael , 139 ...
... Letters from a French , 9 Allen , Paul , Review of , 125 General Lafayette , 397 Gresset , Translation from , 412 Burkhardt's letter to Sir Joseph Banks , 241 Horace , Odes of , 16 , 17 , 205 Second Supplement Hildesheim , Michael , 139 ...
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... letter be- tween , The Witch of New - England , Translation from Gresset , 391 412 1 The Tariff , 422 Past and the ... letters , 318 , 332 Translation of the Child murder- ess of Schiller , 470 Paunch Hogabout , a moral tale , 339 ...
... letter be- tween , The Witch of New - England , Translation from Gresset , 391 412 1 The Tariff , 422 Past and the ... letters , 318 , 332 Translation of the Child murder- ess of Schiller , 470 Paunch Hogabout , a moral tale , 339 ...
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... Letters from your numerous correspondents- ED . - Yes - we must immediately open a correspondence with all the great authors dead and alive . We will publish the posthumous works of some great geniuses who never existed ; and , of ...
... Letters from your numerous correspondents- ED . - Yes - we must immediately open a correspondence with all the great authors dead and alive . We will publish the posthumous works of some great geniuses who never existed ; and , of ...
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... letters from duns or friends in distress , and stupid communications . Let us , then , fairly make our experiment . We will carry our Journal through one year , as manfully as we may . I do not believe it will prove discreditable to the ...
... letters from duns or friends in distress , and stupid communications . Let us , then , fairly make our experiment . We will carry our Journal through one year , as manfully as we may . I do not believe it will prove discreditable to the ...
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... down our conversation . Let him write it out at his leisure ; and let it go as his contribution . Please also to give him a bonus , for saving me the trouble of writing a PREFACE . LETTERS FROM A FRENCH GENTLEMAN . [ A contributor has.
... down our conversation . Let him write it out at his leisure ; and let it go as his contribution . Please also to give him a bonus , for saving me the trouble of writing a PREFACE . LETTERS FROM A FRENCH GENTLEMAN . [ A contributor has.
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Page 275 - And sic a night he taks the road in As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last; The rattling...
Page 228 - Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares — The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days.
Page 320 - I hope this cruel contest will soon be closed; but should it continue, I wage no war with the fair. I acknowledge their force, and bend before it with submission.
Page 319 - House, or to hurt any thing about it. To treat you Madam, with the utmost Respect, to accept of the plate which was offered, and to come away without making a search or demanding anything else. I am induced to believe that I was punctually obeyed; since I am informed that the Plate which they brought away is far short of the quantity expressed in the inventory which accompanied it...
Page 334 - Whitehaven; but the wind became very light, so that the ship would not in proper time approach so near as I had intended. At midnight I left the ship with two boats and thirty-one volunteers; when we reached the outer pier the day began to dawn; I would not, however, abandon my enterprise, but despatched one boat under the direction of Mr Hill and Lieutenant Wallingsford...
Page 450 - From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from...
Page 261 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Page 319 - That party had been with me, the same morning, at Whitehaven; some complaisance, therefore, was their due. I had but a moment to think how I might gratify them, and at the same time do your ladyship the least injury.
Page 337 - The medium may, perhaps, be the most exact account ; and by that it will appear that they lost in killed and wounded, forty-two men. The captain and lieutenant were among the wounded; the former, having received a musket ball in the head the minute before they called for quarters, lived, and was sensible some time after my people boarded the prize. The lieutenant survived two days. They were buried with the honours due to their rank, and with the respect due to their memory.
Page 319 - Selkirk's interest with his king, and esteeming, as 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.