Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volumen95Pub. for J. Hinton., 1794 |
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... first and most important objects then , in order to derive the proper advantage from our ftudies , muft be to render reading itfelf , not a task , but a pleafing employment . Such is the conftitution of human na ture , that no practice ...
... first and most important objects then , in order to derive the proper advantage from our ftudies , muft be to render reading itfelf , not a task , but a pleafing employment . Such is the conftitution of human na ture , that no practice ...
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... first , to fummon a very confiderable degree of refolution . In beginning the study of a new lan- guage , or of any book or fcience , which prefents ideas totally ftrange , the mind cannot but feel fome degree of reluctance . But if the ...
... first , to fummon a very confiderable degree of refolution . In beginning the study of a new lan- guage , or of any book or fcience , which prefents ideas totally ftrange , the mind cannot but feel fome degree of reluctance . But if the ...
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... to a re- trofpect of thefe islands as they must have appeared to the first discoverers ; than which , beheld from the fea , no I objects objects in nature could have been more ftriking to the 8 THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE BO.
... to a re- trofpect of thefe islands as they must have appeared to the first discoverers ; than which , beheld from the fea , no I objects objects in nature could have been more ftriking to the 8 THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE BO.
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... First , it is a very good conductor of electricity ; and fecond- ly , it will undergo little or no change of property by lying ever fo long in the earth . Thus might the furface of that part of the conductor in contact with the earth be ...
... First , it is a very good conductor of electricity ; and fecond- ly , it will undergo little or no change of property by lying ever fo long in the earth . Thus might the furface of that part of the conductor in contact with the earth be ...
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... first arrived at Cher- bourg , it contained no more than 1 feven thoufand three hundred inhabi- tants , and when I quitted that place it contained nearly twenty thousand inhabitants . The emigrants , not contented with faying I was a ...
... first arrived at Cher- bourg , it contained no more than 1 feven thoufand three hundred inhabi- tants , and when I quitted that place it contained nearly twenty thousand inhabitants . The emigrants , not contented with faying I was a ...
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Página 405 - If thou hast heard a word, let it die with thee; and be bold, it will not burst thee.
Página 23 - Extorted from his fellow-creature's woe. Here, while the courtier glitters in brocade, There the pale artist plies the sickly trade; Here, while the proud their long-drawn pomps display, There the black gibbet glooms beside the way. The dome where Pleasure holds her midnight reign, Here, richly deck'd, admits the gorgeous train: Tumultuous grandeur crowds the blazing square, The rattling chariots clash, the torches glare. Sure scenes like these no troubles e'er annoy ! Sure these denote one universal...
Página 176 - Of hostile paces : those opposed eyes, Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven, All of one nature, of one substance bred, Did lately meet in the intestine shock And furious close of civil butchery, Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks March all one way...
Página 187 - Conscience is not controllable by human laws, nor amenable to human tribunals. Persecution, or attempts to force conscience, will never produce conviction, and are only calculated to make hypocrites or martyrs.
Página 405 - Admonish a friend : for many times it is a slander, and believe not every tale. There is one that slippeth in his speech, but not from his heart; and who is he that hath not offended with his tongue?
Página 168 - England, of purpose to carry the pack, was considered as going to lead the life and acquire the fortune of a gentleman. When, after twenty years' absence in that honourable line of employment, he returned with his acquisitions to his native country, he was regarded as a gentleman to all intents and purposes.
Página 6 - The tempeBOOK rature of the air varies indeed considerably acs^v^, cording to the elevation of the land; but, with this exception, the medium degree of heat is much the same in all the countries of this part of the globe.
Página 232 - Lo some are vellum, and the rest as good For all his lordship knows, but they are wood. For Locke or Milton 'tis in vain to look, These shelves admit not any modern book.
Página 254 - No, Sir, let it alone. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Página 111 - In the holidays all the summer the youths are exercised in leaping, dancing, shooting, wrestling, casting the stone, and practising their shields; the maidens trip in their timbrels, and dance as long as they can well see.