The Scots Magazine, Volumen17Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1755 |
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... James Oglethorpe . 2. Opimius , james Ofwald , Efq ; Opiter Virginius , Sir Francis Dashwood . C. Oppius , Lord Onflow , deceafed . L. Oppius Salinator , Arthur Onflow , Efq ; Speak- er of the houfe of Commons . L. Papirius Curfor ...
... James Oglethorpe . 2. Opimius , james Ofwald , Efq ; Opiter Virginius , Sir Francis Dashwood . C. Oppius , Lord Onflow , deceafed . L. Oppius Salinator , Arthur Onflow , Efq ; Speak- er of the houfe of Commons . L. Papirius Curfor ...
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... James II . a body of regular troops were kept on foot under proper difcipline , and with out being guilty of any irregularities : for if they could not have been kept under proper difcipline , I am fure neither of thele Kings would have ...
... James II . a body of regular troops were kept on foot under proper difcipline , and with out being guilty of any irregularities : for if they could not have been kept under proper difcipline , I am fure neither of thele Kings would have ...
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... James I. with the fame exclufive privilege ; and confequently as illegal as the former . From Charles II . they had another new charter , still with the fame exclufive privilege , and ftill il- legal . However , they continued to en ...
... James I. with the fame exclufive privilege ; and confequently as illegal as the former . From Charles II . they had another new charter , still with the fame exclufive privilege , and ftill il- legal . However , they continued to en ...
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... James II . governed their armies without martial law ; for it is well known , that both of them exercised martial law by the fame authority by which they kept up armies ; that is , by an illegal and ufurped ufe of preroga- tive . And ...
... James II . governed their armies without martial law ; for it is well known , that both of them exercised martial law by the fame authority by which they kept up armies ; that is , by an illegal and ufurped ufe of preroga- tive . And ...
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... James Scouler of the oldeft clafs , and Richard Cofway of the youngest , gained the 51. premiums . Cotway is the fon of Mr Richard Cofway school- mafter in Tiverton ; his prize - fubject was Compaffion , taken from an original of Le ...
... James Scouler of the oldeft clafs , and Richard Cofway of the youngest , gained the 51. premiums . Cotway is the fon of Mr Richard Cofway school- mafter in Tiverton ; his prize - fubject was Compaffion , taken from an original of Le ...
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Página 184 - It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe that, if our language is not here fully displayed, I have only failed in an attempt which no human powers have hitherto completed.
Página 182 - From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth a speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind for want of English words...
Página 184 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Página 184 - In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed...
Página 184 - ... sudden fits of inadvertency will surprise vigilance, slight avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment of need, for that which yesterday he knew with intuitive readiness, and which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow.
Página 437 - The happiness of the world is the concern of him, who is the lord and the proprietor of it : nor do we know what we are about, when we endeavour to promote the good of mankind in any ways, but those which he has directed ; that is indeed in all ways not contrary to veracity and justice.
Página 183 - In hope of giving longevity to that which its own nature forbids to be immortal, I have devoted this book, the labour of years, to the honour of my country, that we may no longer yield the palm of philology, without a contest, to the nations of the continent.
Página 183 - ... the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided who, being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature and clear the world at once from folly, vanity, and affectation.
Página 183 - I saw that one enquiry only gave occasion to another, that book referred to book, that to search was not always to find, and to find was not always to be informed ; and that thus to...
Página 182 - I have been cautious lest my zeal for antiquity might drive me into times too remote, and crowd my book with words now no longer understood. I have fixed Sidney's work for the boundary, beyond which I make few excursions.