A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 2John Walker Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... expressions be well enough understood , that does not satisfy , but we are desirous of knowing , at the same time , how they came to import such and such things . Hence arise philology , etymology , annotations upon au- thors , books of ...
... expressions be well enough understood , that does not satisfy , but we are desirous of knowing , at the same time , how they came to import such and such things . Hence arise philology , etymology , annotations upon au- thors , books of ...
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... expressions , to put a gloss upon a thing , that is , a favourable interpretation or construction ; gloss , a fair shining outside ; and to gloze , to flatter . Yours , & c . Whittington , Oct. 19 , 1753 . PAUL GEMSEGE . 1753 , Oct ...
... expressions , to put a gloss upon a thing , that is , a favourable interpretation or construction ; gloss , a fair shining outside ; and to gloze , to flatter . Yours , & c . Whittington , Oct. 19 , 1753 . PAUL GEMSEGE . 1753 , Oct ...
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... expressions . A third argument for the purity of this word in this ac- ceptation , I deduce from the Latin relative qui , which is applied both to persons and things , just as our which is , and as il quale and le quel are in the ...
... expressions . A third argument for the purity of this word in this ac- ceptation , I deduce from the Latin relative qui , which is applied both to persons and things , just as our which is , and as il quale and le quel are in the ...
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... expression the which ; for this , when it is used of a person , as I suppose it is some- times , manifestly is demonstrative , and requires a supply of the preceding proper name , whatever it be ; and in that case again you cannot ...
... expression the which ; for this , when it is used of a person , as I suppose it is some- times , manifestly is demonstrative , and requires a supply of the preceding proper name , whatever it be ; and in that case again you cannot ...
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... expressions , through all the earth , or round the earth , the particle the is necessary to make them English . An expression or phrase being ancient , is not quite On the Propriety of Language in the Lord's Prayer . 75.
... expressions , through all the earth , or round the earth , the particle the is necessary to make them English . An expression or phrase being ancient , is not quite On the Propriety of Language in the Lord's Prayer . 75.
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Common terms and phrases
12th century Æneid amongst ancient animals Antonio's Revenge appears beautiful Bible Bishop bones called century church Cicero copy Crasis curious defective verbs Dryden earth Eclogue edition English expression father feet French give gospels Greek Hæc hand hath heaven Henry VIII Homer inches instance Johnson Julius Cæsar kind King language Latin learned letters likewise lines Lord loving Magazine manner means mentioned Milton months Mopsus nature never night observed occasion opinion original Ovid particular passage PAUL GEMSEGE Pelias perhaps person Phoenician alphabet Plautus play poem poet Pope præsens printed probably quæ quid quod reader reason remarkable Roman Saxon says seems sense Shakespeare shew signifies Silius Italicus speaking Statius supposed Syrinx Tempus thing thou thought tion translation URBAN verb verse Virgil whence whole winds word writers written
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Page 138 - And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
Page 320 - I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; — And take...
Page 302 - Under the opening eye-lids of the morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn...
Page 248 - Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether, though it were but for a while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself ; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular...
Page 75 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Page 321 - Glittering in golden coats, like images ; As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer ; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
Page 93 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Page 293 - On the other side; which, when the arch-felon saw, Due entrance he disdain'd ; and, in contempt, At one slight bound high overleap'd all bound Of hill or highest wall, and sheer within Lights on his feet. As when a prowling wolf, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey, Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve, In hurdled cotes amid the field secure, Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold...
Page 206 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Page 363 - Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next, and next all human race...