The Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, Volumen2Mathews and Leigh., 1807 |
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... natural and proper state ; the highest and last tribunal , the judgment of the public , was to decide on their respective merits ; thus engaged in a fair competition the chalk manner of engraving has maintained a firmness of footing ...
... natural and proper state ; the highest and last tribunal , the judgment of the public , was to decide on their respective merits ; thus engaged in a fair competition the chalk manner of engraving has maintained a firmness of footing ...
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... nature , and at the same time , is carrying on under the superintendance of * Henry Tresham , Esq . a member of the Royal Academy : the historical and descriptive part to be written by William Ottley , Esq . the whole of which is to be ...
... nature , and at the same time , is carrying on under the superintendance of * Henry Tresham , Esq . a member of the Royal Academy : the historical and descriptive part to be written by William Ottley , Esq . the whole of which is to be ...
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... nature is capable of descending . " My dear cousin , " I was ignorant of belonging to you , till the king had nominatedyou Marchioness of Pompadour : then an able genealogist proved to me , that your great grandfather was my ...
... nature is capable of descending . " My dear cousin , " I was ignorant of belonging to you , till the king had nominatedyou Marchioness of Pompadour : then an able genealogist proved to me , that your great grandfather was my ...
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... natural death , it ~ would have done for the prediction , or if he had been slain in an insurrection of his subjects in these revolu → tionary times , it would have just as well applied , for he still would have died . But it was ...
... natural death , it ~ would have done for the prediction , or if he had been slain in an insurrection of his subjects in these revolu → tionary times , it would have just as well applied , for he still would have died . But it was ...
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... nature of man , which covereth divination , thinks it no peril to foretell that which they do but collect . The third and last is , that almost all of them , being infinite in number have been impostors , and by idle and crafty brains ...
... nature of man , which covereth divination , thinks it no peril to foretell that which they do but collect . The third and last is , that almost all of them , being infinite in number have been impostors , and by idle and crafty brains ...
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Página 155 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Página 25 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Página 43 - To be the true Church militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery, And prove their doctrine orthodox, By apostolic blows and knocks; Call fire, and sword, and desolation, A godly, thorough reformation. Which always must be carried on, And still be doing, never done; As if religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended...
Página 66 - ... around him : he thought only of his subject : his genius warmed and kindled as he went on. He darted fire into his audience. Torrents of impetuous and irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and conviction.
Página 99 - Every body knows that ants come out of their holes in the day-time, and expose to the sun the corn which they keep under ground in the night : those who have seen ant-hillocks, have easily perceived those small heaps of corn about their nests. What surprised me at first was, that my ants never brought out their corn, but in the night when the moon did shine...
Página 39 - They both complimented me, in the highest terms, on my essay, which, they said, was a book they always kept by them; and the king said he had one copy of it at Kew, and another in town, and immediately went and took it down from a shelf. I found it was the second edition. 'I never stole a book but one,' said his Majesty, ' and that was yours (speaking to me) ; I stole it from the queen, to give it to Lord Hertford to read.
Página 98 - ... and from the walls, which, together with the earth formerly imbibed with water, made a kind of a dry and barren soil. That place lying to the south, and out of the...
Página 58 - Essay, which they said was a book they always kept by them : and the King said he had one copy of it at Kew, and another in town, and immediately went and took it down from a shelf. I found it was the second edition. ' I never stole a book but once,' said his Majesty, ' and that was yours,' (speaking to me) : ' I stole it from the Queen, to give it to Lord Hertford to read.
Página 61 - Pilkington having inquired of her where she gained this prodigious knowledge, she modestly replied, that when she could spare time from her needlework, to which she was closely kept by her mother, she had received some little instruction from the minister of the parish.
Página 99 - I did not know it by experience, is, that those ants knew, some days after, that they had nothing to fear, and began to lay out their corn in the sun. However, I perceived...