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 ..., Zväzok 2W. Hilliard., 1806 |
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... Italy by the king of France in search of medals , that were wanting to his cabinet , of which I had the care , that I added to this duty that of know- ing those , who were most distinguished among the learned . He took off his cap ...
... Italy by the king of France in search of medals , that were wanting to his cabinet , of which I had the care , that I added to this duty that of know- ing those , who were most distinguished among the learned . He took off his cap ...
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... Italians pronounce the Latin in a way , so differ- ent from ours , that the charm of his verses did not reach me ... Italian pronunciation . Qu'a - t - il fait le Caylous ? Ie n'ai jamais rien vou " de loui . " T. 66 + The fountain of ...
... Italians pronounce the Latin in a way , so differ- ent from ours , that the charm of his verses did not reach me ... Italian pronunciation . Qu'a - t - il fait le Caylous ? Ie n'ai jamais rien vou " de loui . " T. 66 + The fountain of ...
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... Italy , and Ætolia implies a com- mon origin from some common circumstance . That probably was their bor- dering on this great river . In Hebrew hyn , Etolé , is a great water- course . In Mexican Atl is water . ( To be continued ...
... Italy , and Ætolia implies a com- mon origin from some common circumstance . That probably was their bor- dering on this great river . In Hebrew hyn , Etolé , is a great water- course . In Mexican Atl is water . ( To be continued ...
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... Italy . The origin of the Ionian Theogony may be very interest- ing to the classical antiquarian ; but the generality of con- noisseurs and literati are very well contented in simply be- holding and admiring the inhabitants of Olympus ...
... Italy . The origin of the Ionian Theogony may be very interest- ing to the classical antiquarian ; but the generality of con- noisseurs and literati are very well contented in simply be- holding and admiring the inhabitants of Olympus ...
Strana 154
... Italy . Count Rumford travelled over all Italy and part of Switzerland , and returned , after a journey of sixteen months , to Bavaria in August 1794. He had peen attacked by sickness , which prevented his resum- ing the business of his ...
... Italy . Count Rumford travelled over all Italy and part of Switzerland , and returned , after a journey of sixteen months , to Bavaria in August 1794. He had peen attacked by sickness , which prevented his resum- ing the business of his ...
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Strana 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...
Strana 9 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 9 - And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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...