The Portfolio of Entertaining & Instructive Varieties in History, Literature, Fine Arts, Etc. ..., Volume 6Duncombe., 1826 |
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... TRAVELS . " THE MIRROR OF THE TIMES , " A View of Society & Manners - The Court - The Bar , & The Drama : ANECDOTES of WIT , HUMOUR , & FASHION , WITH ALL THE GAY VARIETY OF Bon Ton . SMOLLET'S TOMB . 1 Thy spirit , Independence ! let ...
... TRAVELS . " THE MIRROR OF THE TIMES , " A View of Society & Manners - The Court - The Bar , & The Drama : ANECDOTES of WIT , HUMOUR , & FASHION , WITH ALL THE GAY VARIETY OF Bon Ton . SMOLLET'S TOMB . 1 Thy spirit , Independence ! let ...
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... travel- fries , and though so delicate at first that lers arrived safely in the town of Dum- her life was despaired of , is now a most thriving , interesting , little child . In a few years she will become companiona- ble , and even as ...
... travel- fries , and though so delicate at first that lers arrived safely in the town of Dum- her life was despaired of , is now a most thriving , interesting , little child . In a few years she will become companiona- ble , and even as ...
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... TRAVELS . " THE MIRROR OF THE TIMES , " A View of Society & Manners - The Court - The Bar , & The Drama : ANECDOTES OF WIT , HUMOUR , & FASHION , WITH ALL THE GAY VARIETY OF Bon Ton . THE CASTLE OF ABOUKIR , AND TOWER OF ABULMENDERA ...
... TRAVELS . " THE MIRROR OF THE TIMES , " A View of Society & Manners - The Court - The Bar , & The Drama : ANECDOTES OF WIT , HUMOUR , & FASHION , WITH ALL THE GAY VARIETY OF Bon Ton . THE CASTLE OF ABOUKIR , AND TOWER OF ABULMENDERA ...
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... travels . The amazonian character of her ladyship is well known , and his lordship has been so neglected by the public prints , that he is resolved to make a stir himself before he leaves this coun- try . The letter is in perfect ...
... travels . The amazonian character of her ladyship is well known , and his lordship has been so neglected by the public prints , that he is resolved to make a stir himself before he leaves this coun- try . The letter is in perfect ...
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... travels of Sir George Mackenzie ; and all arise from the same cause , subterranean fires . It is not necessary to go abroad to con- template these wonders , for a spring of a similar kind is to be viewed in the North of England , and of ...
... travels of Sir George Mackenzie ; and all arise from the same cause , subterranean fires . It is not necessary to go abroad to con- template these wonders , for a spring of a similar kind is to be viewed in the North of England , and of ...
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Página 419 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days. The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Página 126 - It is, methinks, a low and degrading idea of that sex, which was created to refine the joys, and soften the cares of humanity, by the most agreeable participation, to consider them merely as objects of sight. This is abridging them of their natural extent of power, to put them upon a level with their pictures at Kneller's.
Página 69 - Majesty's commands in these premises may be duly regarded and observed, his further pleasure is, that the names of all such ecclesiastical persons as shall continue the present supine and slothful way of preaching, be, from time to time, signified to me, by the Vice-Chancellor for the time being, on pain of his Majesty's displeasure. l MONMOUTH."
Página 69 - University, and therefore continues even before himself; his majesty bath commanded me to signify to you his pleasure, that the said practice, which took its beginning from the disorders of the late times, be wholly laid aside ; and that the said preachers deliver their sermons, both in Latin and English, by memory without...
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Página 68 - Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling and inexperienced in all its affairs, on which they pronounce with so much confidence, they have nothing of politics but the passions they excite.
Página 365 - She did so. In the mean time Abraham took a hammer, broke the idols in pieces, all excepting the largest, in whose hands he placed the instrument of destruction.
Página 69 - You could not think of playing the orator, of studying your emphasis, cadence, and gesture : you would be yourself ; and the interesting nature of your subject impressing your heart, would furnish you with the most natural tone of voice, the most proper language, the most engaging features, and the most suitable and graceful gestures. What you would thus be in the parlour, be in the pulpit, and you will not fail to please, to affect, and to profit.