A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 3John Walker Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... Manner of hatching Chicken in Egypt XVI . Absurdity of enthusiastic Predictions XVII . Dr. Hales's method of obtaining fresh Sea - water XVIII . Experiments for sweetening ill - tasted Milk and stinking Water by Ventilation , & c . by ...
... Manner of hatching Chicken in Egypt XVI . Absurdity of enthusiastic Predictions XVII . Dr. Hales's method of obtaining fresh Sea - water XVIII . Experiments for sweetening ill - tasted Milk and stinking Water by Ventilation , & c . by ...
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... manner of profaneness , looseness , luxury , and lewdness , set up in its height , instead of piety , virtue , sobriety , and modesty , which we hoped God , by our hands , would have introduced ; the best of our nation made a prey to ...
... manner of profaneness , looseness , luxury , and lewdness , set up in its height , instead of piety , virtue , sobriety , and modesty , which we hoped God , by our hands , would have introduced ; the best of our nation made a prey to ...
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... manner so excessively engaging , but the superiority of your circumstances prevented any declaration on my side ' ; and though I hurned with a flame as strong as ever filled Mr , Addison to a Lady . Mr Addison to a Lady.
... manner so excessively engaging , but the superiority of your circumstances prevented any declaration on my side ' ; and though I hurned with a flame as strong as ever filled Mr , Addison to a Lady . Mr Addison to a Lady.
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... manner to desire they would send him some fish , which they brutishly refused . Whereupon he ordered three or four cannon to be discharged from the castle , ( for their boats were in reach of the shot ) and immediately they sent him ...
... manner to desire they would send him some fish , which they brutishly refused . Whereupon he ordered three or four cannon to be discharged from the castle , ( for their boats were in reach of the shot ) and immediately they sent him ...
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... manner , that they all refused it , and so the nation was preserved from immediate ruin . I have done some smaller services for this kingdom , but I can do no more ; I have too many years upon me , and too much sickness ; I am out of ...
... manner , that they all refused it , and so the nation was preserved from immediate ruin . I have done some smaller services for this kingdom , but I can do no more ; I have too many years upon me , and too much sickness ; I am out of ...
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Page 129 - ... some similitude of the object admired. Thus, my dear, am I every day to improve from so sweet a companion. Look up, my fair one, to that Heaven which made thee such ; and join with me to implore its influence on our tender innocent hours, and beseech the author of love to...
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Page 192 - These are the great occasions which force the mind to take refuge in religion : when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power ? and to what hope may we not raise our eyes and hearts, when we consider that the greatest POWER is the BEST. Surely there is no man who, thus afflicted, does not seek succour in the gospel, which has brought life and immortality to light.
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Page 330 - This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the life. O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass as he hath hit His face — the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But since he cannot, Reader, look Not on his picture, but his book.