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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... writer agrees to any more , than the facts . As they may be proved by other books , there is no unfair- ness in quoting them from this celebrated writer , though we do not agree in his conclusions . I. There are on the surface and in ...
... writer agrees to any more , than the facts . As they may be proved by other books , there is no unfair- ness in quoting them from this celebrated writer , though we do not agree in his conclusions . I. There are on the surface and in ...
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... writer also informs us , that five leagues north from Callao , the port of Lima , is the bay of Marques , " where " in all appearance not many years since the sea covered " above half a league , of what is now Terra Firma , and the ...
... writer also informs us , that five leagues north from Callao , the port of Lima , is the bay of Marques , " where " in all appearance not many years since the sea covered " above half a league , of what is now Terra Firma , and the ...
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... writer of these dissertations , not having completed what he intended for the fifth number , when called upon by the publishers , begs leave to substitute for it the following letter to a learned friend ; which his zeal dictated , but a ...
... writer of these dissertations , not having completed what he intended for the fifth number , when called upon by the publishers , begs leave to substitute for it the following letter to a learned friend ; which his zeal dictated , but a ...
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... writers . The humble obfcurity howev- er of many of the places in question , and the distance of several hundred years from the events have rendered some of their descriptions uncertain and inaccurate . To ascertain the boundaries of ...
... writers . The humble obfcurity howev- er of many of the places in question , and the distance of several hundred years from the events have rendered some of their descriptions uncertain and inaccurate . To ascertain the boundaries of ...
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... writing is very beautiful , and in those , the writer saw , he did not observe any characters . The operation of unrolling them is very simple , but very tedious . T. The care then in his superb palace of Caserta , 14 LITERARY MISCELLANY .
... writing is very beautiful , and in those , the writer saw , he did not observe any characters . The operation of unrolling them is very simple , but very tedious . T. The care then in his superb palace of Caserta , 14 LITERARY MISCELLANY .
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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...