Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volumen95Pub. for J. Hinton., 1794 |
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THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE O , F KNOWLEDGE AND PLEASURE ; CONTAINING Letters History Aftronomy Philofophy Debates Biography Geography Medicine Efays -Antiquities Mathematics Chemistry Tales Voyages Mechanics Husbandry Poetry Travels ...
THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE O , F KNOWLEDGE AND PLEASURE ; CONTAINING Letters History Aftronomy Philofophy Debates Biography Geography Medicine Efays -Antiquities Mathematics Chemistry Tales Voyages Mechanics Husbandry Poetry Travels ...
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... letters to king Ferdinand ) which difcharges itself into the harbour that I have named Porto Santo , of fufficient depth to be na- vigable . I had the curiofity to found it , and found eight fathom . Yet the water is fo limpid , that I ...
... letters to king Ferdinand ) which difcharges itself into the harbour that I have named Porto Santo , of fufficient depth to be na- vigable . I had the curiofity to found it , and found eight fathom . Yet the water is fo limpid , that I ...
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... for on the day , and on the spot , when and where they are diftributed . The * See Letter IV . in our Magazine for December laft . 2 morning graced by his manners , encouraged church , and the 18 THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE.
... for on the day , and on the spot , when and where they are diftributed . The * See Letter IV . in our Magazine for December laft . 2 morning graced by his manners , encouraged church , and the 18 THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE.
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... Letters to a Friend . LETTER X. Gloucester , Sept. 1792 . EVE DEAR SIR , VERY fuperficial thinker , and fome who arrogate a fuperior degree of penetration , have given it as a ferious opinion , that happiness depends upon externals ...
... Letters to a Friend . LETTER X. Gloucester , Sept. 1792 . EVE DEAR SIR , VERY fuperficial thinker , and fome who arrogate a fuperior degree of penetration , have given it as a ferious opinion , that happiness depends upon externals ...
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... letter , and which furnishes me with part of the present . I now return to the foreft . The hofpitality of our hoft at Gunn's Mills would not permit us to depart the morning after our arrival , as we intended , and we dedicated the ...
... letter , and which furnishes me with part of the present . I now return to the foreft . The hofpitality of our hoft at Gunn's Mills would not permit us to depart the morning after our arrival , as we intended , and we dedicated the ...
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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.
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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.