The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 89, Part 1Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1819 - English essays |
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... common flint glass . This compound being mixed with water to a proper consistence , the pieces , after the first firing , are separately dipt into it ; being somewhat bibulous , they im- bibe a quantity of the mere water , and the glaze ...
... common flint glass . This compound being mixed with water to a proper consistence , the pieces , after the first firing , are separately dipt into it ; being somewhat bibulous , they im- bibe a quantity of the mere water , and the glaze ...
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... common fields , half - year lands , com- mon pastures , common meadows , com- mons , commonable lands , heaths , and waste grounds , within the parish of Tottington , in the county of Norfolk . " About two furlongs north - west of the ...
... common fields , half - year lands , com- mon pastures , common meadows , com- mons , commonable lands , heaths , and waste grounds , within the parish of Tottington , in the county of Norfolk . " About two furlongs north - west of the ...
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... common be- verage at our meals - what is called for after the removal of the cloth , is extra , and an additional charge . Our landlord said he was a Protestant , and that there were forty thousand in that city ready with hearts and ...
... common be- verage at our meals - what is called for after the removal of the cloth , is extra , and an additional charge . Our landlord said he was a Protestant , and that there were forty thousand in that city ready with hearts and ...
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... common usage al- lowed nine days ( for example ) , or even eight and a half , to be accounted as ten , that was sufficient authority , not only for a poet , but even for a prose writer , to reckon nine months as ten , without meaning ...
... common usage al- lowed nine days ( for example ) , or even eight and a half , to be accounted as ten , that was sufficient authority , not only for a poet , but even for a prose writer , to reckon nine months as ten , without meaning ...
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... common blessings which virtuous conduct will seldom fail to ensure you ; and are not these the natural sources of contentment and cheerfulness ? When you consider your situation in a religious point of view , the motives for contentment ...
... common blessings which virtuous conduct will seldom fail to ensure you ; and are not these the natural sources of contentment and cheerfulness ? When you consider your situation in a religious point of view , the motives for contentment ...
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Page 252 - To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the laugh, and the jeer? Ah ! here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer. And none but the worm is a reveller here.
Page 382 - Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn ? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat...
Page 298 - James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man ? I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Page 251 - Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, LORD, it is good for us to be here : if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles ; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
Page 251 - In a small narrow cave, and, begirt with cold clay, To the meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey. To Beauty ? Ah no ! she forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin...
Page 266 - On moving the rod from the hip to the heel, the knee being previously bent, the leg was thrown out with such violence as nearly to overturn one of the assistants, who in vain attempted to prevent its extension...
Page 315 - He then devisde himselfe how to disguise ; For by his mighty science he could take As many formes and shapes in seeming wise, As ever Proteus to himselfe could make...
Page 252 - Ah no ! She forgets The charms which she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride...
Page 332 - It certainly is my wish, and it has been my study, to exclude from this publication whatever is unfit to be read aloud by a gentleman to a company of ladies.
Page 548 - ... seem to be conductors to the machinery. After a sufficient time, during which each spectator may satisfy his scruples and his curiosity, the exhibitor recloses the doors of the chest and figure, and the drawer at bottom ; makes some arrangements in the body of the figure, winds up the works with a key inserted into a small opening on the side of the chest, places a cushion under the left arm of the figure, which now rests upon it, and invites any individual present to play a game of Chess.