A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volumen1

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814
 

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The Author of the Whole Duty of
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Sir ISAAC NEWTON on the Ancient Year
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Classic Authors perverted
87
Obscure Phrases Explained
88
Critical Explanations of the word EARING
89
Biblical Difficulty obviated
93
Ancient and Fabulous History not always alle gorical
94
Virgil illustrated
97
Comment on the old play of ALBUMAZAR
98
A Passage in JUVENAL explained
102
Criticism on a Passage in VIRGIL
104
Critical Remarks on HORACE
106
Critique on a Passage in Paradise Lost 107
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CHAUCERS Description of the Sleep of Plants
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Critique on a Passage in HORACE 112
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Observations on an obsolete Latin word
113
A Passage in VIRGIL explained
115
A brief account of the various Translations of the BIBLE into English
116
Account of the Translators of the BIBLE
120
A Passage in CICERO de Senectute corrected
124
The pretended power of Witchcraft over the
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A Passage in P MELA considered
131
Critical Remarks on a Passage in SHAKESPEARES
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On the Conversion of St PAUL
137
On the Ellipsis
140
Origin of some common Phrases 142
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Derivation of the phraseto Run a Muck
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Origin of the word Assassin
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Account of the Collation and Revision of the English Bible by DR BLANEY
148
Remarks on the HUETIANA and a Passage in VIRGIL
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On Translation MICKLEs Lusiad
152
On the Mistakes of eminent Authors
157
MARTIAL and STATIUS on the Bath of CLAUDIUS ETRUSCUS
159
Greek Inscription to be read backwards as well as forwards
160
The AdageQuem Jupiter vult perdere c illus trated
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Critique on VIRGIL and an Inquiry into the pro priety of some passages in SILIUS ITALICUS
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Critique on SHAKESPEARE
170
Critical Remarks on the Tragedies of SENECA
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Critical Remarks on some passages in V Pater CULUS and PETRONIUS
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Inquiry as to the real author of the book De Imi
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Superiority of SHAKESPEARES Description of Night
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Objections to POPEs Translation of HOMERS De scription of Night
186
Various Descriptions of Night compared
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Critical Illustrations of obsolete Passages in SHAKESPEARE
192
The Latin AdageIncidis in Scyllam c whence taken
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Of names retained when their origin is disused
200
NUGA VENALES PUGNA PORCORUM
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Conjecture on an obscure Passage in SHAKESPEARE
212
On the introduction of Letters into Greece
213
Origin of Old Nick
215
On the Crasis a Grammatical Figure
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On the word ORMESTA
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Sameness of certain dissimilar Words
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Criticism on GRAYS Bard
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On the word Bleak
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NINE LOVE at Cards or other Games
239
An Emendation of a Passage in Virgil
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POPES Epitaph on GAY borrowedHAMMONDS Elegies
242
Addition to GRAYS Churchyard Elegy
244
Origin of the word Firm
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BENTHAM and GRAY on Saxon and Gothic Architecture
249
Anecdotes of Literature by Dr JOHNSON
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Remarks on WEBBs Inquiry into the Beau ties of Painting c
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Remarks on WARTONS Edition of MILTONS Juvenile Poems
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Critical Remarks on MILTON
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Parallel Passages in Authors of Note
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On POPES Imitations of our early Poets
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Critique on a Passage in VIRGIL
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Strictures on Dr JOHNSONS Criticism on MIL
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Strictures on the promiscuous use of the Arti cles A and AN
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Melancholy Despair and Grief as described by the Poets
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Strictures on the use of the Interjection oн
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LANGELAND Author of Pierce Plowmans Visions
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Remarks on DRYDENS Ode in Memory of Mrs KILLIGREW
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Union of Imagination and Judgment indispensa bly required in Poetry
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BOURN whence probably derived
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On Imitation and Originality
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TURL at Oxford whence so named
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An Emendation in MILTONS Paradise Lost
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On the Particle UN
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POPES Imitation of a passage in SILIUS ITALICUS
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PEN and PIN defined
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Etymology of PONTIFEX
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A List of Local Expressions with Illustrations
368
Critique on VIRGIL
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Solecisms in the Works of English Authors
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ADDISONs Observations on VIRGILs Achates
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On the Authenticity of the Arabian Tales by Dr RUSSELL
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Dissertation on Accents
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Page
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Surprising instances of the effects of Music in acute
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Dissertation on a Poison of the Ancients called
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History and culture of Cochineal
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The cause of the lustre or resplendency of the Sea
434
Account of an inflammable Well
443
Fire from the Bowels of a Beast
445
Earthquakes how produced
446
Account of a moving Hill
448
History of Northern Lights in England
450
Curious Discoveries in making new Roads in Northamptonshire
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Places in England where natural curiosities abound
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Discoveries of Fossil Bones in several Counties
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Fossils in the Vicinity of Oxford
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On the Coluber of Virgil
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On the Phenomenon of Dew
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Observations on the Gossamer
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On the Influx of Water into the Mediterranean
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Immense Chesnut Tree at Tamworth
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Remarkable Phenomenon of the Bath Waters
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Account of Fires kindled of themselves
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On the prodigious Growth of Trees
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On Archbishop SECKERs Death and the Brit tleness of human Bones in Frosts
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Whether Oily Substances are hurtful to the Bones?
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Curious Account of the Dissection of Old PARR from a Manuscript of Dr HARVEY
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Description of a Stone Eater
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On the Stature and Figure of Old Persons
502
The Cruelty of Collectors of Insects censured
504
On the Process of Vegetation in Trees
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Extraordinary Effects of Pestilential Winds
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On the Leviathan
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Stones not hurtful to Land
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On the Serpent destroyed by REGULUS
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Harmless Nature of HedgeHogs
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Account of the Free Martin
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Account of a Gigantic Child
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Curious and Authentic Instance of Lon
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