The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 95Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1825 - English essays |
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... means fair to attribute every death that happens here to the in- fluence of the climate . I know several instances of British residents , who have been here more than fifty years ; surely if the climate be so insalubrious as it is often ...
... means fair to attribute every death that happens here to the in- fluence of the climate . I know several instances of British residents , who have been here more than fifty years ; surely if the climate be so insalubrious as it is often ...
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... means of miraculous preservation , was commemorated with respect , a growing idolatry considered it as a benign goddess , and as from it as well as from the wife of Noah , the earth was re - peopled , these two in process of time became ...
... means of miraculous preservation , was commemorated with respect , a growing idolatry considered it as a benign goddess , and as from it as well as from the wife of Noah , the earth was re - peopled , these two in process of time became ...
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... means he became probably first known to Wolsey , whose penetration distinguished bis abilities , and to whom he afterwards proved so diligent and faithful an adherent . - In the same collection of Letters , there is one from John Clusey ...
... means he became probably first known to Wolsey , whose penetration distinguished bis abilities , and to whom he afterwards proved so diligent and faithful an adherent . - In the same collection of Letters , there is one from John Clusey ...
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... means he might forward so holy a work . But Mr. Huntington was then chiefly solicitous about getting the Epistles of St. Ignatius in the Syrian language , but fruitlessly and to no purpose . But it is very probable that there were for ...
... means he might forward so holy a work . But Mr. Huntington was then chiefly solicitous about getting the Epistles of St. Ignatius in the Syrian language , but fruitlessly and to no purpose . But it is very probable that there were for ...
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... means of raising a fand sufficient to preserve the view of the beautiful Steeple of St. Bride's Church , which had lately burst upon the publick . It appeared to him , that the great architect of that edifice ( Sir Chris- topher Wren ) ...
... means of raising a fand sufficient to preserve the view of the beautiful Steeple of St. Bride's Church , which had lately burst upon the publick . It appeared to him , that the great architect of that edifice ( Sir Chris- topher Wren ) ...
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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.