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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... whole world were seized with the rage of conquering India , and possessing themselves of the tree of life , which was still supposed to grow there . Numerous fleets invaded the coasts , while whole nations of savages in- undated the ...
... whole world were seized with the rage of conquering India , and possessing themselves of the tree of life , which was still supposed to grow there . Numerous fleets invaded the coasts , while whole nations of savages in- undated the ...
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... whole thickness of the shell , it broke to pie- ces , and fell into the central abyss . Numerous inconveniences attend this theory . Among others it is obvious , that no sufficient provision being made for watering the surface , the ...
... whole thickness of the shell , it broke to pie- ces , and fell into the central abyss . Numerous inconveniences attend this theory . Among others it is obvious , that no sufficient provision being made for watering the surface , the ...
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... whole of our planet was dissolved into mud . The inconveniences attending this theory arise principally from the necessity of bringing such a large quantity of water from abroad , the insufficiency of the means of supply , the dif ...
... whole of our planet was dissolved into mud . The inconveniences attending this theory arise principally from the necessity of bringing such a large quantity of water from abroad , the insufficiency of the means of supply , the dif ...
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... whole surface of the globe , It will be the object of the remaining part of this chapter to state those familiar principles , which shall reconcile the ap- pearances with the historical records ; and , as the same ap- pearances are ...
... whole surface of the globe , It will be the object of the remaining part of this chapter to state those familiar principles , which shall reconcile the ap- pearances with the historical records ; and , as the same ap- pearances are ...
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... whole consists en- tirely of stones . Vaillant , in his second travels to the Cape of Good Hope , says , " the excursion convinced me , that not only the south- Ulloa ii , 97 . ( c ern point of Africa , but also its LITERARY MISCELLANY .
... whole consists en- tirely of stones . Vaillant , in his second travels to the Cape of Good Hope , says , " the excursion convinced me , that not only the south- Ulloa ii , 97 . ( c ern point of Africa , but also its 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...