The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 95Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1825 - English essays |
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... Letters on the Island of Jamaica , No. I ........ 4 . On the Religion of the Druids ... .7 : ..9 Account of Limington , Somersetshire ....... Life and Travels of Dr. R. Huntington ........ 11 Curious Epitaphs in Kent and Sussex ...
... Letters on the Island of Jamaica , No. I ........ 4 . On the Religion of the Druids ... .7 : ..9 Account of Limington , Somersetshire ....... Life and Travels of Dr. R. Huntington ........ 11 Curious Epitaphs in Kent and Sussex ...
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... Letters of eminent Literary Cha- racters . " Such communications are always acceptable . L. S. says , " A copy of the ... letter ) , together with some other tracts , for 12s . 6d . The Triumphs of 1620 and 1621 sold for 7s .; those of ...
... Letters of eminent Literary Cha- racters . " Such communications are always acceptable . L. S. says , " A copy of the ... letter ) , together with some other tracts , for 12s . 6d . The Triumphs of 1620 and 1621 sold for 7s .; those of ...
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... LETTERS ON THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA . - No . I. Jamaica , MY DEAR BROther , July 1824 . T was intention to follow the journal of my voyage across the Atlantic ( which I forwarded to you soon after I landed ) with a ... letter as to call on him.
... LETTERS ON THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA . - No . I. Jamaica , MY DEAR BROther , July 1824 . T was intention to follow the journal of my voyage across the Atlantic ( which I forwarded to you soon after I landed ) with a ... letter as to call on him.
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6 Letters on the Island of Jamaica , No. I. nity ; as he is so much higher in the scale of society than the brown or mixed ... letter I shall give you a detailed account of the state and condi- tion of the negro or slave population , and ...
6 Letters on the Island of Jamaica , No. I. nity ; as he is so much higher in the scale of society than the brown or mixed ... letter I shall give you a detailed account of the state and condi- tion of the negro or slave population , and ...
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... letters which he held with those most learned men Dr. Narcissus Marsh , lately promoted from the Archbishoprick of Dublin to that of Armagh and the primacy of all Ire land ; Dr. John Fell , Bishop of Ox- ford ; Dr. Edward Pococke ...
... letters which he held with those most learned men Dr. Narcissus Marsh , lately promoted from the Archbishoprick of Dublin to that of Armagh and the primacy of all Ire land ; Dr. John Fell , Bishop of Ox- ford ; Dr. Edward Pococke ...
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Page 498 - I'll leave you till night; you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Giiildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' ye :—Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and 'peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Page 316 - If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered ; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.
Page 317 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Page 34 - Beauty in thee takes up her place, And dates her letters from thy face, When she doth write. A fine aspect in fit array, Neither too mean, nor yet too gay, Shows who is best : Outlandish looks may not compare ; For all they either painted are, Or else undrest.
Page 120 - Tale that's new begun, Or like the bird that's here today, Or like the pearled Dew of May, Or like an Hour, or like a Span, Or like the singing of a Swan.
Page 34 - That even her face by kissing shines, For her reward. She in the valley is so shy Of dressing, that her hair doth lie About her ears : While she avoids her neighbour's pride, She wholly goes on th' other side, And nothing wears. But, dearest Mother (what those miss), The mean thy praise and glory is, And long may be. Blessed be God, whose love it was To double-moat thee with his grace, And none but thee.
Page 457 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by the law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen: All this I promise to do.
Page 311 - And it was so, that all that saw it, said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.
Page 543 - I was anxiously looking around for the river, one of them called out, geo affili (see the water), and looking forwards, I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission — the long sought for majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward.
Page 427 - Then was the sacred Bible sought out of the dusty corners where profane falsehood and neglect had thrown it, the schools opened, divine and human learning raked out of the embers of forgotten tongues, the princes and cities trooping apace to the new erected banner of salvation; the martyrs, with the unresistible might of weakness, shaking the powers of darkness, and scorning the fiery rage of the old red dragon.