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... give our readers fufficient in- formation concerning the nature and merit of the work , by laying before them a concife analyfis of one chapter , with a short extract . We felect the fection on the duties of the legal profeffion . The ...
... give our readers fufficient in- formation concerning the nature and merit of the work , by laying before them a concife analyfis of one chapter , with a short extract . We felect the fection on the duties of the legal profeffion . The ...
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... gives to that ftate a right to interfere , a pretext for interference can never be wanting . On this ground , the famous ... give a government to the French . He tells us that it was by a faction withing to form a new conftitution on the ...
... gives to that ftate a right to interfere , a pretext for interference can never be wanting . On this ground , the famous ... give a government to the French . He tells us that it was by a faction withing to form a new conftitution on the ...
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... give to the French people a rational fyftem of government , we did not ex- pect that he would have advised England to obferve a neutra lity on precifely thofe very grounds on which the other allies ought to have done the fame ; and , if ...
... give to the French people a rational fyftem of government , we did not ex- pect that he would have advised England to obferve a neutra lity on precifely thofe very grounds on which the other allies ought to have done the fame ; and , if ...
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... give no favourable opinion of his Lordship's con- fiftency ; nay they may be thought to fhew that he himself had no fyftem whatever in politics : " Nay , more , if the whole French frontiers in Flanders were con quered , and ceded to ...
... give no favourable opinion of his Lordship's con- fiftency ; nay they may be thought to fhew that he himself had no fyftem whatever in politics : " Nay , more , if the whole French frontiers in Flanders were con quered , and ceded to ...
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... give it to me . Death feemed approaching ; coldness had feized all my limbs ; my fight became confufed , as I perceived from looking at the stars , which danced before me ; and the rattle or noife in my throat was very perceptible to ...
... give it to me . Death feemed approaching ; coldness had feized all my limbs ; my fight became confufed , as I perceived from looking at the stars , which danced before me ; and the rattle or noife in my throat was very perceptible to ...
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Page 87 - More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues...
Page 424 - Long-sounding aisles, and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence., and a dread repose: Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Page 123 - They planted by your care! No, your oppressions planted them in America. They fled from your tyranny, to a then uncultivated and inhospitable country, where they exposed themselves to almost all the hardships to which human nature is liable, and, among others, to the cruelties of a savage foe, the most subtle, and I will take upon me to say, the most formidable of any people upon the face of God's earth...
Page 196 - Hudibras was the first of his works that marked him as a man above the common ; yet what made him then noticed now surprises us, to find so little humour in an undertaking so congenial to his talents.
Page 421 - With other beauties charm my partial eyes, Full in my view set all the bright abode, And make my soul quit Abelard for God. Ah think at least thy flock deserves thy care, Plants of thy hand, and children of thy pray'r.
Page 215 - His object was simply to declare and record his opinion, that it was the true policy of every nation to treat with the existing government of every other nation with which it had relative interests, without inquiring or regarding how that government was constituted, or by what means those who exercised it came into power.
Page 124 - I have no doubt, but, that by the concurrence and support of my parliament, by the valour of my fleets and armies, and by a vigorous, animated, and united exertion of the faculties and resources of my people, I shall be enabled to restore the blessings of a safe and honorable peace to all my dominions.
Page 446 - There is a fine ciftern of pure water ; and we admired the coolnefs and drynefs of the wine-cellars, ventilated by communications with caverns in the rock. To this circumftance, as much as to the quality of the foil and careful culture of the grape, the wine of St. Marino is indebted for its peculiar excellence. The whole territory of the republic extends about thirtyfive miles in circumference. It is of an irregular oval form, and its mean diameter may be eftimated at fix Englifh miles.
Page 422 - In thefe lone walls (their day's eternal bound) Thefe mofs-grown domes with fpiry turrets crown'd, Where awful arches make a noon-day night, And the dim windows fhed a folemn light ; Thy eyes diffus'da reconciling ray, And gleams of glory brighten'd all the day.
Page 198 - HISTORY (the) of Poland, from its origin as a nation to the commencement of the year 1795. To which is prefixed, an accurate account of the geography and government of that country, and the customs and manners of its inhabitants.