Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volume 94Pub. for J. Hinton., 1794 |
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... means that we have , they have deduced all the confequences that are admitted by the moderns ; and difcovered long before , by the mental eye , whatever has fince been prefented to corporeal fight through the medium of telescopes . We ...
... means that we have , they have deduced all the confequences that are admitted by the moderns ; and difcovered long before , by the mental eye , whatever has fince been prefented to corporeal fight through the medium of telescopes . We ...
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... means , we are often much more to blame than they . In a mixed com- pany of ladies and gentlemen , how frequently do we fee the latter direct all their polite attentions to one lady who happens to have more beauty than any of the reft ...
... means , we are often much more to blame than they . In a mixed com- pany of ladies and gentlemen , how frequently do we fee the latter direct all their polite attentions to one lady who happens to have more beauty than any of the reft ...
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... Mean Great . Leaft Mean Great . Leaft Mean Great Least Mean Jan. 30,55 29,01 | 30,04 | 49 29 39 51,5 40,5 15,5 50 149 54 Feb. 30,25 29,34 29,84 52,5 | 32 42,553 43 18,5 55,5 47 50,5 Mar. 3,23 29,09 29,88 52,5 32 Apr. 30,32 29,29 29,9258 ...
... Mean Great . Leaft Mean Great . Leaft Mean Great Least Mean Jan. 30,55 29,01 | 30,04 | 49 29 39 51,5 40,5 15,5 50 149 54 Feb. 30,25 29,34 29,84 52,5 | 32 42,553 43 18,5 55,5 47 50,5 Mar. 3,23 29,09 29,88 52,5 32 Apr. 30,32 29,29 29,9258 ...
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... means fatal . Toward the end of the year , all the diseases which pre- vailed had a putrid tendency . REMARKS during a SIX WEEKS RESIDENCE in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire , in 1792 : In a Series of Letters to a Friend . to north ...
... means fatal . Toward the end of the year , all the diseases which pre- vailed had a putrid tendency . REMARKS during a SIX WEEKS RESIDENCE in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire , in 1792 : In a Series of Letters to a Friend . to north ...
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... means are a fit fubject on which those who are experienced in the world may communicate their ob- fervations to thofe who have its leffons yet to learn . It is an interefting to pic , and its difcuffion is fairly within the compafs of ...
... means are a fit fubject on which those who are experienced in the world may communicate their ob- fervations to thofe who have its leffons yet to learn . It is an interefting to pic , and its difcuffion is fairly within the compafs of ...
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Page 436 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Page 408 - Son, This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it, Like to a tenement or pelting farm...
Page 408 - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed, and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds...
Page 115 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 101 - Superstition, by which she endeavours to break those chains of benevolence and social affection that link the welfare of every particular with that of the whole. Remember, that the greatest honour you can pay to the Author of your being, is by such a cheerful behaviour as discovers a mind satisfied with his dispensations.
Page 360 - I. the court of king's bench, relying on some arbitrary precedents, and those perhaps misunderstood, determined that they could not upon a habeas corpus either bail or deliver a prisoner, though committed without any cause assigned, in case he was committed by the special command of the king, or by the lords of the privy council.
Page 114 - To give me audience : — If the midnight bell Did, with his iron tongue and brazen mouth, Sound one unto the drowsy race of night...
Page 359 - This is a high prerogative writ, and therefore by the common law issuing out of the court of king's bench not only in term time, but also during the vacation, by a fiat from the chief justice or any other of the judges, and running into all parts of the king's dominions ; for the king is at all times entitled to have an account, why the liberty of any of his subjects is restrained, wherever that restraint may be inflicted.
Page 407 - O but they say the tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain. For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.
Page 410 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...