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... establish the union , between the Mother Country and the Colonies , on terms mutually beneficial . But the great objects of this declaration , as well as of that iffued by Governor Johnftone , and of other former and fubfequent ...
... establish the union , between the Mother Country and the Colonies , on terms mutually beneficial . But the great objects of this declaration , as well as of that iffued by Governor Johnftone , and of other former and fubfequent ...
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... established by the commanders for defcent . At the fame time the Comet bomb - galley was fent up the fouth channel , to prevent the enemy's row - gallies from efcaping by the inland navigations . On finding that the battery on a place ...
... established by the commanders for defcent . At the fame time the Comet bomb - galley was fent up the fouth channel , to prevent the enemy's row - gallies from efcaping by the inland navigations . On finding that the battery on a place ...
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... established fuch pofts as fecured the whole line of frontier on the fide of South - Carolina , and formed the well - affected , who came in with their rifles and horfes , into a corps of light dragoons . In the mean time , Major - Gene ...
... established fuch pofts as fecured the whole line of frontier on the fide of South - Carolina , and formed the well - affected , who came in with their rifles and horfes , into a corps of light dragoons . In the mean time , Major - Gene ...
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... established in the French iflands . And in either event , fuch of the inhabitants as did not chufe to continue under a French government , were to be at liberty to fell all their eftates real and perfonal , and to retire with their ...
... established in the French iflands . And in either event , fuch of the inhabitants as did not chufe to continue under a French government , were to be at liberty to fell all their eftates real and perfonal , and to retire with their ...
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... established fyftem , or that the flattering ideas of fome partial or general accommodation , fill in terfered with ... establish with other nations , whe ther friendly or inimical , at the outfet of fuch a war . It was fuppofed , that a ...
... established fyftem , or that the flattering ideas of fome partial or general accommodation , fill in terfered with ... establish with other nations , whe ther friendly or inimical , at the outfet of fuch a war . It was fuppofed , that a ...
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Página 23 - The metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to show their learning was their whole endeavour; but, unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear; for the modulation was so imperfect, that they were only found to be verses, by counting the syllables.
Página 24 - ... wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and without emotion.
Página 23 - If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry, an imitative art, these writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect.
Página 24 - What they wanted however of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole; their amplification had no limits; they left not only reason but fancy behind them; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.
Página 25 - This kind of writing, which was, I believe borrowed from Marino and his followers, had been recommended by the example of Donne, a man of very extensive and various knowledge ; and by Jonson, whose manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the cast of his sentiments.
Página 26 - He has involved in his account of the fall of man the events which preceded and those that were to follow it : he has interwoven the whole system of theology with such propriety that every part appears to be necessary; and scarcely any recital is wished shorter for the sake of quickening the progress of the main action.
Página 352 - Then the lord chancellor, by his majefty's command, faid : My lords, and gentlemen, It is his majefty's royal will and pleafure, that this parliament be prorogued to Tuefday, the fifth day of September next, to be then here holden ; and this parliament is accordingly prorogued to the fifth day of September next.
Página 149 - ... by the help of the fat of hogs, has covered the whole with flour, laid on by a machine with the utmost regularity; if, when thus attired, he issues forth, and meets a Cherokee Indian, who has bestowed as much time at his toilet, and laid on with equal care and attention his yellow and red ochre on particular parts of his forehead or cheeks, as he judges most becoming...
Página 32 - 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.
Página 23 - If, by a more noble and more adequate conception, that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new; that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just; if it be that which he that never found it wonders how he missed; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen.