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... judge of what ought to be fuppreffed of works already in print . Various circumstances may concur to place the fentiments of an Author and his reader at variance with each other . Were the determinations of writers on this fubject ...
... judge of what ought to be fuppreffed of works already in print . Various circumstances may concur to place the fentiments of an Author and his reader at variance with each other . Were the determinations of writers on this fubject ...
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... judges . Our inability to fix the age of this infcription necef- farily infers our ignorance of its author , with relation to whom many controverfies may be started worthy of the moft profound learning , and most indefatigable diligence ...
... judges . Our inability to fix the age of this infcription necef- farily infers our ignorance of its author , with relation to whom many controverfies may be started worthy of the moft profound learning , and most indefatigable diligence ...
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... judge to enlarge bis authority , was it not in the licenfer the utmost clemency and forbearance , to extend fourteen days only to twenty- one ? I fuppofe this great man's inclination to perform at leaft this duty of a good judge , is ...
... judge to enlarge bis authority , was it not in the licenfer the utmost clemency and forbearance , to extend fourteen days only to twenty- one ? I fuppofe this great man's inclination to perform at leaft this duty of a good judge , is ...
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... judges do upon all occafions re- commend him as one who is qualified in the best man . ner . He has taught young boys and young gentlemen , with great fuccefs ; nor did I ever hear of any complaint of him from either parents or children ...
... judges do upon all occafions re- commend him as one who is qualified in the best man . ner . He has taught young boys and young gentlemen , with great fuccefs ; nor did I ever hear of any complaint of him from either parents or children ...
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... judges , as it is by , Learned SIR , Your fincere Well - wishers and humble Servants , The AUTHORS of the Univerfal History . A LETTER from the Learned Mr. ROBERT AINSWorth , Author of the Latin and English Dictionary , to Mr. LAUDER ...
... judges , as it is by , Learned SIR , Your fincere Well - wishers and humble Servants , The AUTHORS of the Univerfal History . A LETTER from the Learned Mr. ROBERT AINSWorth , Author of the Latin and English Dictionary , to Mr. LAUDER ...
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Seite 78 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Seite 121 - It is yet in the power of a great people to reward the poet whose name they boast, and from their alliance to whose genius they claim some kind of superiority to every other nation of the earth; that poet, whose works may possibly be read when every other monument of British greatness shall be obliterated ; to reward him, not with pictures or with medals, which, if he sees, he sees with contempt, but with tokens of gratitude, which he, perhaps, may even now consider as not unworthy the regard of...
Seite 76 - Thus thou must do, if thou have it"; And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Seite 247 - His opinion was, that men had only the appearance of animal life, being really vegetables with a power of motion; and that as the boughs of an oak are dashed together by the storm, that swine may fatten upon the falling acorns, so men are by some unaccountable power driven one against another, till they lose their motion, that vultures may be fed.
Seite 384 - Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Seite 73 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle.
Seite 63 - ... 3. or take up any dead man, woman or child out of the grave, — or the skin, bone or any part of the dead person, to be employed or used in any manner of witchcraft, sorcery, charm or enchantment; 4.
Seite 246 - Since man is so big, said the young ones, how do you kill him ? You are afraid of the wolf and of the bear, by what power are vultures superior to man ? is man more defenceless than a sheep ? We have not the strength of man, returned the mother, and I am sometimes in doubt whether we have the subtilty; and the.
Seite 545 - Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage and the human breast Torments alike with raging fires; With bright, but oft destructive, gleam, Alike o'er all his lightnings fly ; Thy lambent glories only beam Around the fav'rites of the sky.
Seite 96 - It will have blood ; they say, blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.