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... present Editors refer generally to the Memoir of their esteemed friend in the Number for December last . But there is one part of it so highly honourable to Mr. Nichols's conduct as Editor of this Magazine , and so apposite to the present ...
... present Editors refer generally to the Memoir of their esteemed friend in the Number for December last . But there is one part of it so highly honourable to Mr. Nichols's conduct as Editor of this Magazine , and so apposite to the present ...
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... present Volume to their exposure . Let it always be remembered , however , that it is with the errors of Popery we contend , and not with individuals , many of whom we respect in private life , and doubt not their honourable feelings in ...
... present Volume to their exposure . Let it always be remembered , however , that it is with the errors of Popery we contend , and not with individuals , many of whom we respect in private life , and doubt not their honourable feelings in ...
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... present Volume to their exposure . Let it always be remembered , however , that it is with the errors of Popery we contend , and not with individuals , —many of whom we respect in private life , and doubt not their honourable feelings ...
... present Volume to their exposure . Let it always be remembered , however , that it is with the errors of Popery we contend , and not with individuals , —many of whom we respect in private life , and doubt not their honourable feelings ...
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... present representative of Sir Edward's family in Sur- rey is descended . Manning and Bray , II . p . 282 . § Id . II . p . 129 . June number , that though Sir John Astley , the Champion , was only second son of a Knight , he was ...
... present representative of Sir Edward's family in Sur- rey is descended . Manning and Bray , II . p . 282 . § Id . II . p . 129 . June number , that though Sir John Astley , the Champion , was only second son of a Knight , he was ...
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... present day , by a grotesque fi- gure called Peeping Tom , which ap- pears looking out of a corner window or opening in a wall , in Smithford- street . It is about six feet in height , and is an ancient full - length statue of a man in ...
... present day , by a grotesque fi- gure called Peeping Tom , which ap- pears looking out of a corner window or opening in a wall , in Smithford- street . It is about six feet in height , and is an ancient full - length statue of a man in ...
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Page 274 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Page 277 - Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute: that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation...
Page 52 - My dog, so altered in his taste, Quits mutton-bones on grass to feast ; And see yon rooks, how odd their flight, They imitate the gliding kite, And seem precipitate to fall, As if they felt the piercing ball. 'Twill surely rain, I see with sorrow, Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow.
Page 526 - His Majesty acquaints the House of Lords, that his Majesty has received an earnest application from the Princess Regent of Portugal, claiming, in virtue of the ancient obligations of alliance and amity subsisting between his Majesty and the crown of Portugal, his Majesty's aid against an hostile aggression from Spain.
Page 493 - Is there no balm in Gilead ; is there no physician there ? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered...
Page 243 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page 255 - I was thence sent to the old Congress. Then employed two years with Mr. Pendleton and Mr. Wythe, on the revisal and reduction to a single code of the whole body of the British statutes, the acts of our Assembly, and certain parts of the common law. Then elected Governor. Next to the Legislature, and to Congress again. Sent to Europe as Minister Plenipotentiary. Appointed Secretary of State to the new government. Elected Vice-President, and President.
Page 505 - I have been called to a holy office by the Lord himself, who most graciously manifested himself in person to me his servant in the year 1743 ; when he opened my sight to the view of the spiritual world, and granted me the privilege of conversing with spirits and angels, which I enjoy to this day.
Page 121 - First, that in the most blessed Sacrament of the Altar, by the strength and efficacy of Christ's mighty word, it being spoken by the priest, is present really, under the form of bread and wine, the natural body and blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ, conceived of the Virgin Mary, and that after the consecration there remaineth no substance of bread or wine, nor any other substance but the substance of Christ, God and Man ; Secondly, that communion in both kinds is not necessary ad salutem...
Page 446 - I apprehend that few persons, civil or military, have undergone as much labor, traversed as much country, seen and regulated so much as he had done, in the small portion of time which had elapsed since he entered on his office ; and, if death had not broken his career, his friends know that he contemplated no relaxation of exertions. But this was not a mere restless activity, or result of temperament. It was united with a fervent zeal, not fiery nor ostentatious, but steady and composed, which none...