The Literary Miscellany, Including Dissertations and Essays on Subjects of Literature, Science, and Morals: Biographical and Historical Sketches; Critical Remarks on Language; with Occasional Reviews ...W. Hilliard, 1805 |
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... , drove him from the lethargy of a permanent abode , and the quiet of cities . Nature here legislated more perfectly , than Lycurgus , in leaving him a a rover as 26 LITERARY MISCELLANY . A BRIEF VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF LITERÁ ...
... , drove him from the lethargy of a permanent abode , and the quiet of cities . Nature here legislated more perfectly , than Lycurgus , in leaving him a a rover as 26 LITERARY MISCELLANY . A BRIEF VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF LITERÁ ...
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... cities of Sem pach , Surzée , and Winterthur , and became landgrave of Bur- gundy and Turgovia . A prince so powerful was well able to defend the cantons , and he served them faithfully until the time of his ascending the Imperial ...
... cities of Sem pach , Surzée , and Winterthur , and became landgrave of Bur- gundy and Turgovia . A prince so powerful was well able to defend the cantons , and he served them faithfully until the time of his ascending the Imperial ...
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... cities , rough " With warlike ornament superb , she fix'd " On her immortal head . " 4 This passage is equal , perhaps superior to the translation of Pope . The helmet of Minerva however is unreasonably magnified . Eustathius , as ...
... cities , rough " With warlike ornament superb , she fix'd " On her immortal head . " 4 This passage is equal , perhaps superior to the translation of Pope . The helmet of Minerva however is unreasonably magnified . Eustathius , as ...
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... cities , towns , principal rivers , lakes , harbors , mountains , & c . & c . in Europe , Asia , Africa , and their adjacent Islands . " This volume , which is illustrated with eighteen maps , is the joint work of Jedidiah Morse D. D. ...
... cities , towns , principal rivers , lakes , harbors , mountains , & c . & c . in Europe , Asia , Africa , and their adjacent Islands . " This volume , which is illustrated with eighteen maps , is the joint work of Jedidiah Morse D. D. ...
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... cities and small districts . The same practice obtained a- mong the Princes of the Empire toward their peculiar vas- sals . Hence in all the feudal territories the liege lord had more or less authority , according to his original claims ...
... cities and small districts . The same practice obtained a- mong the Princes of the Empire toward their peculiar vas- sals . Hence in all the feudal territories the liege lord had more or less authority , according to his original claims ...
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Página 256 - Richard; no man cried, God save him; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, — His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience ; — That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Página 71 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Página 148 - God loves from Whole to Parts: but human soul Must rise from Individual to the Whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, 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; Wide and more wide, th...
Página 76 - In this was every art, and every charm, To win the wisest, and the coldest warm : Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still reviving fire, 250 Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.
Página 390 - I have to offer to you, which most nearly concerns your welfare, and upon which every good and honourable purpose of your life will assuredly turn; I mean the keeping up in your heart the true sentiments of religion. If you are not right towards God, you can never be so towards man : the noblest sentiment of the human breast is here brought to the test.
Página 288 - Nurs'd by warm sun-beams in primeval caves Organic Life began beneath the waves. Hence without parent by spontaneous birth Rise the first specks of animated earth; From Nature's womb the plant or insect swims, And buds or breathes, with microscopic limbs.
Página 288 - First HEAT from chemic dissolution springs, And gives to matter its eccentric wings; With strong REPULSION parts the exploding mass, Melts into lymph, or kindles into gas. ATTRACTION next, as earth or air subsides, The ponderous atoms from the light divides, 240 Approaching parts with quick embrace combines, Swells into spheres, and lengthens into lines.
Página 261 - Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ; Good Sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up, want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun.
Página 99 - And I will make thee like the top of a rock : thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon ; thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
Página 391 - ... depravation and disgrace of it. Remember the essence of religion is, a heart void of offence towards God and man ; not subtle speculative opinions, but an active vital principle of faith.