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 ..., Volumen2W. Hilliard., 1806 |
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... causes , by which it was effected . This has involved an inquiry in- to the original construction of the earth , and a number of learned men have published their different theories . It will not be expected here , that those theories ...
... causes , by which it was effected . This has involved an inquiry in- to the original construction of the earth , and a number of learned men have published their different theories . It will not be expected here , that those theories ...
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... causes , unknown to us , ern seas . This is M. Buffon's summary statement of the evidence , He supposes from finding shells on high mountains , that the water stood a long time as high , as 1500 toises above the present level of the sea ...
... causes , unknown to us , ern seas . This is M. Buffon's summary statement of the evidence , He supposes from finding shells on high mountains , that the water stood a long time as high , as 1500 toises above the present level of the sea ...
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... caused at the very beginning so violent a return of his cough , that Madam Laura , alarmed , joined her prayers to mine to engage him to defer the remainder to an- other day . He consented , though with regret , and I es- caped very ...
... caused at the very beginning so violent a return of his cough , that Madam Laura , alarmed , joined her prayers to mine to engage him to defer the remainder to an- other day . He consented , though with regret , and I es- caped very ...
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... externals would be little regarded . But now the serpent charms among roses . Politeness is the most powerful abettor of vice . Why may she not be still more influential in a worthy cause ? The union of 26 LITERARY MISCELLANY .
... externals would be little regarded . But now the serpent charms among roses . Politeness is the most powerful abettor of vice . Why may she not be still more influential in a worthy cause ? The union of 26 LITERARY MISCELLANY .
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... cause ? The union of learning , religion , and good manners , gives irresistible sway . None will dare to withstand , but those , who are in open war with reason and modesty , A BRIEF CHARACTER OF THE LOW COUN- TRIES UNDER THE STATES ...
... cause ? The union of learning , religion , and good manners , gives irresistible sway . None will dare to withstand , but those , who are in open war with reason and modesty , A BRIEF CHARACTER OF THE LOW COUN- TRIES UNDER THE STATES ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 89 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Página 9 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Página 89 - WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? WHAT constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride, Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No, — men, high-minded men...
Página 241 - English : and have endeavoured to make him speak that kind of English which he would have spoken had he lived in England, and had written to this age.
Página 91 - This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety. Glad then, as miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour...
Página 76 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Página 9 - And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Página 90 - O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend discretion like a vapor sinks ; And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks.
Página 8 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Página 91 - Nature, it seemed, ashamed of her mistake, Would throw their land away at duck and drake, Therefore necessity, that first made kings, Something like government among them brings. For, as with...