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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... never found together , nor even in places contigu- Petrified shells are found almost every where at great distances from the sea , and on the highest hills ; many species of them belong not to our seas , and several of " them have no ...
... never found together , nor even in places contigu- Petrified shells are found almost every where at great distances from the sea , and on the highest hills ; many species of them belong not to our seas , and several of " them have no ...
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... never been remarkable for skill in phi- losophy . We may then state the height of this bed at twen- ty or thirty fathoms higher , than the shore , or somewhere between one hundred and twenty and two hundred feet . The same writer also ...
... never been remarkable for skill in phi- losophy . We may then state the height of this bed at twen- ty or thirty fathoms higher , than the shore , or somewhere between one hundred and twenty and two hundred feet . The same writer also ...
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... fields of ancient geography . Herculane- This palace , one of the most magnificent in Europe , is not , and proba- bly never will be finished . T. um was founded by Hercules ; but there were many LITERARY MISCELLANY 15.
... fields of ancient geography . Herculane- This palace , one of the most magnificent in Europe , is not , and proba- bly never will be finished . T. um was founded by Hercules ; but there were many LITERARY MISCELLANY 15.
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... never seen any thing from him . ' And without waiting for my answer he rang , and had a large box of papers brought to him ; it was the collection of his Latin poetry . He proposed to me to hear a morsel of it . I should be enchanted ...
... never seen any thing from him . ' And without waiting for my answer he rang , and had a large box of papers brought to him ; it was the collection of his Latin poetry . He proposed to me to hear a morsel of it . I should be enchanted ...
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... - other day . He consented , though with regret , and I es- caped very quick , resolved never to trouble him again . ( To be continued . ) REMARKS ON ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE ROMAN POETS , ets LITERARY MISCELLANY . 19.
... - other day . He consented , though with regret , and I es- caped very quick , resolved never to trouble him again . ( To be continued . ) REMARKS ON ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE ROMAN POETS , ets LITERARY MISCELLANY . 19.
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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...