The Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, Volumen2Mathews and Leigh., 1807 |
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... respecting a performance , upon which all impartial and intelligent men never had but one opinion . Suffice it to state ... respect for the intrepidity and adventurous spirit of this gentleman , I cannot help thinking , that had he not ...
... respecting a performance , upon which all impartial and intelligent men never had but one opinion . Suffice it to state ... respect for the intrepidity and adventurous spirit of this gentleman , I cannot help thinking , that had he not ...
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... respecting the claim of one of two branches of a river to give the name to the stream which they both contribute equally to form . The following considerations have , however , operated to convince me , that even in this instance ...
... respecting the claim of one of two branches of a river to give the name to the stream which they both contribute equally to form . The following considerations have , however , operated to convince me , that even in this instance ...
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... respecting the Sacred River , sought these sources , not in Lybia , nor even in Nubia , but somewhere near the Red Sea , or , what is now called , the Indian Ocean . Indeed , he seems to have taken the Tacazze ( anciently the Astaberas ) ...
... respecting the Sacred River , sought these sources , not in Lybia , nor even in Nubia , but somewhere near the Red Sea , or , what is now called , the Indian Ocean . Indeed , he seems to have taken the Tacazze ( anciently the Astaberas ) ...
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... respecting Meroe , r of the rivers Astaberas and Astapus that bound it . It is perfectly evident that the Mareb , which joins the Tacazze , was the original Astapus : if there be any truth in the accounts of Pto- lemy , we are obliged ...
... respecting Meroe , r of the rivers Astaberas and Astapus that bound it . It is perfectly evident that the Mareb , which joins the Tacazze , was the original Astapus : if there be any truth in the accounts of Pto- lemy , we are obliged ...
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... respect for the peerage as any man ; but that in my situation , without succession direct or collateral , a peerage to me was not worth the expence of new paint- ing my coach . " He told the Duke , nevertheless , that , though he had ...
... respect for the peerage as any man ; but that in my situation , without succession direct or collateral , a peerage to me was not worth the expence of new paint- ing my coach . " He told the Duke , nevertheless , that , though he had ...
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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...