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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... honor , conferred upon him by the elector on his return from Vienna , was making him Chamberlain in 1784 or 1785. About the same time also he was admitted a mem- ber of the academies of science of Munich and Manheim . His attention was ...
... honor , conferred upon him by the elector on his return from Vienna , was making him Chamberlain in 1784 or 1785. About the same time also he was admitted a mem- ber of the academies of science of Munich and Manheim . His attention was ...
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... honors , literary , civil , and military , which were flowing . upon him , in 1788 he was appointed major general of cav- alry , and privy counsellor of state . To complete for the present this progress of promotions , he was placed at ...
... honors , literary , civil , and military , which were flowing . upon him , in 1788 he was appointed major general of cav- alry , and privy counsellor of state . To complete for the present this progress of promotions , he was placed at ...
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... honored ? Will " it be reckoned vanity , if I mention the concern , which the poor of Munich expressed in so affecting a manner , when " I was dangerously ill ? That they went publicly in a body " in procession to the cathedral church ...
... honored ? Will " it be reckoned vanity , if I mention the concern , which the poor of Munich expressed in so affecting a manner , when " I was dangerously ill ? That they went publicly in a body " in procession to the cathedral church ...
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... honor to be guilty of plagiarism , and the coincidence of the passages is too striking to be an effect of chance ; we must therefore conclude he has taken no other liberty , than that of applying his own ideas to different purposes ...
... honor to be guilty of plagiarism , and the coincidence of the passages is too striking to be an effect of chance ; we must therefore conclude he has taken no other liberty , than that of applying his own ideas to different purposes ...
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... the dray horse . Or else he is said to be ac- tuated solely by the ambition of gaining the good opinion of government , and of acquiring College honors . The studies most popular are history , and works of 34 LITERARY MISCELLANY .
... the dray horse . Or else he is said to be ac- tuated solely by the ambition of gaining the good opinion of government , and of acquiring College honors . The studies most popular are history , and works of 34 LITERARY MISCELLANY .
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Términos y frases comunes
academy acquainted admired Æneid ancient appear Ashur beauty called Chaldee character Choiseul common Count Rumford discovered divine Dryden duellist earth edition effect England English Ennius envy Epicurus essay excellence express favor flood genius Gifford give Greece happy Herculaneum honor hope improvement interest Johnson Junius Juvenal Juventa kind labor land language learned letters letters of Junius literary Livy Lucan Lucretius mankind manner ment merit mind modern Munich nations nature never object obliged observations opinion original passage Persius person Pharsalia philosophical pleasure Plutus poem poet poetry Pompey praise present principles published Raamah reason religion remarks rendered respect Roman Rumford satire society spirit style supposed Syriac taste thermoscope thing thor tion town translation truth verse virtue whole words writer youth
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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...