The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, 7. kötetJ. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1796 |
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... gave up their claim to the poffeffion , foon profited anew of the opportunities which the fucceeding distractions of government offered them , and favoured the popular re- monftrances of the hardships they fuf- fered from the alledged ...
... gave up their claim to the poffeffion , foon profited anew of the opportunities which the fucceeding distractions of government offered them , and favoured the popular re- monftrances of the hardships they fuf- fered from the alledged ...
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... gave their folemn decifion , and he was ac- quitted of all the charges of impeach- meat brought against him by the Com- mons . This trial commenced Feb. 12. 1788 , and from that period to its clofe fat 149 days . 18. Two French frigates ...
... gave their folemn decifion , and he was ac- quitted of all the charges of impeach- meat brought against him by the Com- mons . This trial commenced Feb. 12. 1788 , and from that period to its clofe fat 149 days . 18. Two French frigates ...
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... gave Linnæus a most kind and flattering reception . though Anthony was a bigotted a d herent to Tournefort's fyftem , an too old to begin to learn a new one . Through them he became acquainted with the most eminent French litera- ti ...
... gave Linnæus a most kind and flattering reception . though Anthony was a bigotted a d herent to Tournefort's fyftem , an too old to begin to learn a new one . Through them he became acquainted with the most eminent French litera- ti ...
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... gave birth to the idea of raising a learned corporation . The most ac- tive promoter of this plan was a young man of noble birth and great parts , Count A. G. Hoepken , who held afterwards the dignity of counsellor of ftate and ...
... gave birth to the idea of raising a learned corporation . The most ac- tive promoter of this plan was a young man of noble birth and great parts , Count A. G. Hoepken , who held afterwards the dignity of counsellor of ftate and ...
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... gave him a public teftimony of their fatif- faction , and , four years after , he pub- lifhed the narrative of this tour . The infirmities and advanced age of a man finally realifed those hopes of Linnæus , which had been frustrated in ...
... gave him a public teftimony of their fatif- faction , and , four years after , he pub- lifhed the narrative of this tour . The infirmities and advanced age of a man finally realifed those hopes of Linnæus , which had been frustrated in ...
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85. oldal - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed until I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
85. oldal - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself...
85. oldal - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help...
327. oldal - Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
150. oldal - Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure.
98. oldal - ... the Bull from the rest of the herd, until he stood at bay ; when a marksman dismounted and shot. At some of these huntings twenty or thirty...
98. oldal - Their colour is invariably of a creamy white, muzzle black ; the whole of the inside of the ear, and about one-third of the outside, from the tips downwards, red ; horns white with black tips, very fine and bent upwards; some of the bulls have a thin upright mane, about an inch and a half or two inches long.
85. oldal - The Shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a Native of the Rocks. Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the Water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help.
85. oldal - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your...
262. oldal - slower — very well — what a plague is this foot about, and this little head ? No wonder you are out, Mr Bijou, when you forget your time. That's a jewel — bravo ! bravo! my little man!