The European Magazine, and London Review, Հատոր 45Philological Society of London, 1804 |
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... should lament our want of materials as a misfortune , it arifes from our reflection , that in the variety of fituations where this venerable critic and valuable member of fociety has re- sided , from the Dunciad in St. Paul's Church ...
... should lament our want of materials as a misfortune , it arifes from our reflection , that in the variety of fituations where this venerable critic and valuable member of fociety has re- sided , from the Dunciad in St. Paul's Church ...
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... should do the most good ; but I am forry that I cannot inform the prefent age who was the most fuccefsful in this phi- lanthropic purfuit , for this reafon , that the good they did was always in fecret ; and I believe that neither of ...
... should do the most good ; but I am forry that I cannot inform the prefent age who was the most fuccefsful in this phi- lanthropic purfuit , for this reafon , that the good they did was always in fecret ; and I believe that neither of ...
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... should have been delighted to hear what could have been faid in continuation . Such were the effufions of the con- temporaries of Rock ; but in confe- quence of the force of his genius , his were faid to be ftill better : he never ...
... should have been delighted to hear what could have been faid in continuation . Such were the effufions of the con- temporaries of Rock ; but in confe- quence of the force of his genius , his were faid to be ftill better : he never ...
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... should be pure , and I made my court to a wholesome girl , who had never bored her ears , and went conftantly to meeting . She was daughter to old Solomon the Carter , and by moon - light I used to play my banger under her window , and ...
... should be pure , and I made my court to a wholesome girl , who had never bored her ears , and went conftantly to meeting . She was daughter to old Solomon the Carter , and by moon - light I used to play my banger under her window , and ...
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... should make her husband as happy as a Prince . In converfing with the pious Curate about the morality of his parishioners , he told me , with a groan , that three years ago a crime had been committed , which had excited alike the wrath ...
... should make her husband as happy as a Prince . In converfing with the pious Curate about the morality of his parishioners , he told me , with a groan , that three years ago a crime had been committed , which had excited alike the wrath ...
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Էջ 444 - ... wisdom and virtue, which ripened into full maturity in the character of a most accomplished man: directing him to the acquisition of knowledge, as the best instrument of action; teaching him by the cultivation of his reason, to strengthen and establish in his heart those principles of moral rectitude which were congenial to it; and, above all, exhorting him to regulate the whole conduct of his life by the predominant influence of gratitude, and obedience to God, as the only sure groundwork of...
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Էջ 322 - ... he was thus enjoying an old age, happy in some respects beyond the usual lot of humanity, his domestic comfort suffered a deep and incurable wound by the death of Mrs. Reid. He had had the misfortune too of surviving, for many years, a numerous family of promising children ; four of whom (two sons and two daughters) died after they had attained to maturity. One only was left to him, Mrs. Carmichael, then the wife, now the widow, of Patrick Carmichael, MD His situation at this period cannot be...
Էջ 166 - ... at him, he caught him in his arms, fell back with him into the water, got upon him, and kept him down till he was drowned. This adventure, as well as...
Էջ 322 - Logic, which forms an Appendix to the third volume of Lord Kames's Sketches, comprehend the whole of Dr Reid's publications. The interval between the dates of the first and last of these amounts to no less than forty years, although he had attained to the age of thirty-eight before he ventured to appear as an author. With the Essays on the Active Powers of Man...
Էջ 262 - He then repeated over again, nearly word for word, what he had before said, and when it was transcribed, and read over to him, he said, ' That is right, I have now done.
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Էջ 22 - Wherein his wealth and ornaments consist, And how he may be form'd, and how improv'd, What fit, what not, what excellent or ill. Sound judgment is the ground of writing well ; And when...
Էջ 262 - On Monday morning, the 9th of February, on being asked how he did, he answered in a faint voice, that he had no pain, but appeared fainting away gradually. About eight o'clock, he desired to have three pamphlets which had been looked out by his directions the evening before. He then dictated as clearly and distinctly as he had ever done in his life, the additions and alterations which he wished to have made in each. M took down the substance of what he said, which was read to him. He observed, '...
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