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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... established the house of industry at Manheim . * This was the first experiment of the kind , to which he had directed his attention , and was the result of several years ' study and close application to the interest of the military ...
... established the house of industry at Manheim . * This was the first experiment of the kind , to which he had directed his attention , and was the result of several years ' study and close application to the interest of the military ...
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... established in the military work house , were strictly ordered to exercise the utmost kindness and len- * iency toward all classes . Rewards of different kinds , and prizes to excite emulation in their different employments were ...
... established in the military work house , were strictly ordered to exercise the utmost kindness and len- * iency toward all classes . Rewards of different kinds , and prizes to excite emulation in their different employments were ...
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... establish general principles it is necessary , that they be proved by an applica- tion to different objects . Those , who have been esteemed the most learned grammarians , are those , who have with the most care investigated the ...
... establish general principles it is necessary , that they be proved by an applica- tion to different objects . Those , who have been esteemed the most learned grammarians , are those , who have with the most care investigated the ...
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... established , this right must of necessity vanish . But the right of printing bibles , books of common prayer , and law books , is still vested in the king , and has been granted by him at different times . This right is pure- ly ...
... established , this right must of necessity vanish . But the right of printing bibles , books of common prayer , and law books , is still vested in the king , and has been granted by him at different times . This right is pure- ly ...
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... established , this right must of necessity vanish . But the right of printing bibles , books of common prayer , and law books , is still vested in the king , and has been granted by him at different times . This right is pure- ly ...
... established , this right must of necessity vanish . But the right of printing bibles , books of common prayer , and law books , is still vested in the king , and has been granted by him at different times . This right is pure- ly ...
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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...