The Historical, biographical, literary, and scientific magazine, conducted by R. Bisset with the assistance of other literary gentlemen, Volume 2Robert Bisset 1800 |
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... original character of the French revolution , but especially its conduct towards this country , and gave a sketch . of the proceedings of M. Chauvelin . The French ultimatum de- livered by him contained a direct threat against an ally ...
... original character of the French revolution , but especially its conduct towards this country , and gave a sketch . of the proceedings of M. Chauvelin . The French ultimatum de- livered by him contained a direct threat against an ally ...
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... original proposal of Mr. Rose , went , 1. to repeal that part of the Income - Act , which respected the ascertaining of the income arising from the culture of land ; 2. to fix , that the rent to the landlord , the parochial rates , and ...
... original proposal of Mr. Rose , went , 1. to repeal that part of the Income - Act , which respected the ascertaining of the income arising from the culture of land ; 2. to fix , that the rent to the landlord , the parochial rates , and ...
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... original purposes of the war had not been , as yet , either fully accomplished , or entirely defeated ; that even to negotiate , though with no design of making improper concessions , would be highly unwise , since it would afford time ...
... original purposes of the war had not been , as yet , either fully accomplished , or entirely defeated ; that even to negotiate , though with no design of making improper concessions , would be highly unwise , since it would afford time ...
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... original purposes of the war . In such cir cumstances , it could have been in no degree surprising , if the Em- peror , reduced to sudden despondency , by the entire failure of the first hopes of this campaign , and willing to sacrifice ...
... original purposes of the war . In such cir cumstances , it could have been in no degree surprising , if the Em- peror , reduced to sudden despondency , by the entire failure of the first hopes of this campaign , and willing to sacrifice ...
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... original nature of opera a radical defe & t which prevents the ablest writers from making it an exact copy of life . The satire of the Beggar's Opera was poignant , its characters natural , and we 20 SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF.
... original nature of opera a radical defe & t which prevents the ablest writers from making it an exact copy of life . The satire of the Beggar's Opera was poignant , its characters natural , and we 20 SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF.
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Page 146 - There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer...
Page 143 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Page 286 - I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation ; nor the musician's which is fantastical ; nor the courtier's, which is proud ; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious ; nor the lawyer's, which is politic ; nor the lady's, which is nice ; nor the lover's, which is all these : but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
Page 143 - Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
Page 150 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school : and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used ; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Page 240 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
Page 6 - The same system to the prevalence of which France justly ascribes all her present miseries, is that which has also involved the rest of Europe in a long and destructive warfare, of a nature long since unknown to the practice of civilized nations.
Page 10 - Majesty, if a sort of invitation were held out in favour of that Republican Government of which England adopted the forms in the middle of the last century, or an exhortation to recall to the throne that family whom their birth had placed there, and whom a revolution compelled to descend .from it.
Page 38 - Ay, i' the name of mischief, let him be the messenger. — For my part I wouldn't lend a hand to it for the best horse in your stable. By the mass ! it don't look like another letter ! It is, as I may say, a designing and malicious-looking letter ; and I warrant smells of gunpowder like a soldier's pouch ! — Oons ! I wouldn't swear it mayn't go off ! Acres. Out, you poltroon ! you han't the valour of a grasshopper. Dav. Well, I say no more — 'twill be sad news, to be sure, at Clod Hall ! but...
Page 143 - Every sort of legislative, judicial, or executory power are its creatures. They can have no being in any other state of things ; and how can any man claim, under the conventions of civil society, rights which do not so much as suppose its existence...