The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, 11. kötetJ. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1790 |
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12. oldal
... eyes of others ; they darken our reafon , difconcert our fchemes , en- feeble our efforts , extinguish our hopes , and add tenfold poignancy to all the evils of life . In battle , the brave foldier is in lefs danger than the coward ; in ...
... eyes of others ; they darken our reafon , difconcert our fchemes , en- feeble our efforts , extinguish our hopes , and add tenfold poignancy to all the evils of life . In battle , the brave foldier is in lefs danger than the coward ; in ...
16. oldal
... eyes , and a tree to be de- fired to make one wife , and fhe took of the fruit thereof . ' ( Gen. iii . 6. ) ' The ... eye over the whole horizon . ' Woman laughs , man fmiles † : wo- man weeps , man remains filent . Wo man is in anguish ...
... eyes , and a tree to be de- fired to make one wife , and fhe took of the fruit thereof . ' ( Gen. iii . 6. ) ' The ... eye over the whole horizon . ' Woman laughs , man fmiles † : wo- man weeps , man remains filent . Wo man is in anguish ...
21. oldal
... eye , we must fuppofe to be ved from us . For , were the fars which compofe it at the fame distance from one another as Sirius is from the fun ; and fuppofing the cluster to be feen under an angle of 10 minutes , and to contain 50 stars ...
... eye , we must fuppofe to be ved from us . For , were the fars which compofe it at the fame distance from one another as Sirius is from the fun ; and fuppofing the cluster to be feen under an angle of 10 minutes , and to contain 50 stars ...
23. oldal
... eye ? Were we not already ac- quainted with attraction , this gra dual condenfation would point out a central power , by the remarkable difpofition of the lars tending to- wards a center , In confequence of this vifible accumulation ...
... eye ? Were we not already ac- quainted with attraction , this gra dual condenfation would point out a central power , by the remarkable difpofition of the lars tending to- wards a center , In confequence of this vifible accumulation ...
26. oldal
... eyes of others , amply re- warded for the pains we have taken , and we often fay with affected tranf fport : Ab if you but underfood Greek ! Thofe who understand , or think they understand the Hebrew , the A- rabic , the Syriac , the ...
... eyes of others , amply re- warded for the pains we have taken , and we often fay with affected tranf fport : Ab if you but underfood Greek ! Thofe who understand , or think they understand the Hebrew , the A- rabic , the Syriac , the ...
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195. oldal - And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD ; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: and after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
365. oldal - The officers and men being in the boat, they only waited for me, of which the master-at-arms informed Christian, who then said, 'Come, Captain Bligh, your officers and men are now in the boat, and you must go with them; if you attempt to make the least resistance you will instantly be put to death...
250. oldal - The whole import of the word they did not perfectly understand, but they had heard something about standing in a church, and a penance, and their ideas immediately ran upon a white sheet. They concluded, if they once got into that, it was all over with them ; and as the excommunication was to take place the next day, away they hurried to Mr. Elwes, to know how they could make submission, and how the sentence might be prevented.
227. oldal - AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL LAZARETTOS IN EUROPE; with various papers relative to the Plague: together with further Observations on some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals; and additional Remarks on the present State of those in Great Britain and Ireland.
228. oldal - ... Should it please God to cut off my life in the prosecution of this design, let not my conduct be uncandidly imputed to rashness or enthusiasm, but to a serious, deliberate conviction that I am pursuing the path of duty, and to a sincere desire of being made an instrument of more extensive usefulness to my fellowcreatures than could be expected in the narrower circle of a retired life.
262. oldal - There is a peculiarity belonging to ravens that must draw the attention even of the most incurious— they spend all their leisure time in striking and cuffing each other on the wing in a kind of playful skirmish; and when they move from one place to another, frequently turn on their backs with a loud croak, and seem to be falling to the ground. When this odd gesture betides them, they are scratching themselves with one foot, and thus lose the centre of gravity.
313. oldal - In the villages near Banares, it is the practice for the person, who is to be tried by this kind of ordeal, to stand in water up to his navel, and then, holding the foot of a Brahman, to dive under it as long as a man can walk fifty paces very gently ; if, before the man has walked thus far, the accused rise above the water, he is condemned ; if not, acquitted.
279. oldal - From minds thus subdued by the terrors of punishment there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason, nor any masterly compositions on the general nature of government, by the help of which the great commonwealths of mankind have founded their establishments; much less any...
195. oldal - And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: and after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
309. oldal - He, one day, during this period, dined upon the remaining part of a moor-hen, which had been brought out of the river by a rat! and at another, eat an...