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... confiderable portion of ufeful and pleafing information : we here refer , par- ticularly , to the hiftorical and travelling anecdotes , which may 13 affift affift us in forming juft ideas of the country and Coftigan's Sketches of ...
... confiderable portion of ufeful and pleafing information : we here refer , par- ticularly , to the hiftorical and travelling anecdotes , which may 13 affift affift us in forming juft ideas of the country and Coftigan's Sketches of ...
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... confiderable number , of the inhabitants of that county , obtained the Society's premium . MANUFACTURES . Under this head , Mr. Thomas Greaves , near Warrington , tranfmits to the Society fome fpecimens of paper made from the bark of ...
... confiderable number , of the inhabitants of that county , obtained the Society's premium . MANUFACTURES . Under this head , Mr. Thomas Greaves , near Warrington , tranfmits to the Society fome fpecimens of paper made from the bark of ...
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... confiderable merit . Much ingenuity is difplayed in the delineation of many of the characters . The author fhews great experience in the ways of men ; and there is humour in the manner in which fome of the incidents are con- ducted . We ...
... confiderable merit . Much ingenuity is difplayed in the delineation of many of the characters . The author fhews great experience in the ways of men ; and there is humour in the manner in which fome of the incidents are con- ducted . We ...
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... confiderable share of historical and political knowlege . He fets out with feveral obfervations , intended to fhew , that where the spirit of unbridled freedom prevails , and where the people are accustomed to hear the nature of liberty ...
... confiderable share of historical and political knowlege . He fets out with feveral obfervations , intended to fhew , that where the spirit of unbridled freedom prevails , and where the people are accustomed to hear the nature of liberty ...
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... confiderable degree , compenfated by the flourishing ftate of what remains of her former poffeffions in that part of the world . According to all accounts , as well as to the representations contained in the volume before us , Canada ...
... confiderable degree , compenfated by the flourishing ftate of what remains of her former poffeffions in that part of the world . According to all accounts , as well as to the representations contained in the volume before us , Canada ...
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Page 647 - Advocates chose me their Librarian, an office from which I received little or no emolument, but which gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing the History of England...
Page 270 - That the said right claimed by the People of Ireland to be bound only by laws enacted by his Majesty and the Parliament of that Kingdom, in all cases whatever...
Page 367 - I know not how to express, otherwise, than by a calm, sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world ; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains, or some solitary wilderness...
Page 327 - Oppressor's iron scourge to mourn To mourn, but not to murmur at his wrong! Yet when their last late evening shall decline...
Page 130 - Three copecs or an akin," anfwered Muller. " Well then," faid the Czar, " I have earned eighteen altins, and am come to be paid." Muller immediately opened ha bureau, took out eighteen ducats, and counting them before the prince, " It is the leaft," faid he, " that can be given to fuch a workman as your Majefty." But the emperor refufed them :
Page 338 - Where anguish wails aloud, and fetters clank ; To caves bestrew'd with many a mouldering bone, And cells, whose echoes only learn to groan ; Where no kind bars a whispering friend disclose, No sunbeam enters, and no zephyr blows, He treads, inemulous of fame or wealth, Profuse of toil and prodigal of health...
Page 3 - France, notwithstanding all its natural resources, languishes under an oppressive load of the same kind. The republic of the United Provinces is as much enfeebled by its debts as either Genoa or Venice. Is it likely that in Great Britain alone a practice, which has brought either weakness or desolation into every other country, should prove altogether innocent?
Page 128 - Faculty, among whom surgery may be supposed, at that time, to have been at a very low ebb. He tapped the wife of a Dutch merchant who had the dropsy, but the operation having been too long deferred, the poor woman...
Page 461 - I think of those that have no friend, Who now, perhaps, by melancholy led, From the broad blaze of day, where pleasure flaunts, Retiring, wander...
Page 334 - Stay thy soft murmuring waters, gentle Rill ; Hush, whispering Winds; ye rustling Leaves, be still; Rest, silver Butterflies, your quivering wings ; Alight, ye Beetles, from your airy rings ; Ye painted Moths, your gold-eyed plumage furl, Bow your wide horns, your spiral trunks uncurl; Glitter, ye Glow-worms, on your mossy beds ; Descend, ye Spiders, on your lengthened threads ; Slide here, ye horned Snails, with varnished shells; Ye Bee-nymphs, listen in your waxen cells...