THE MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERARY JOURNAL1786 |
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... attention to that method which arifes from the connection of caufes with their effects . Valuable obfervations are occafionally interfperfed : and the whole is written , in a ftyle , which is neither , on the one hand , tedious ...
... attention to that method which arifes from the connection of caufes with their effects . Valuable obfervations are occafionally interfperfed : and the whole is written , in a ftyle , which is neither , on the one hand , tedious ...
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... attention than his predeceffors , the nature of truth , and the means of defending it against the attacks of declama- tion , and the fnares of rubilety . He undertook , therefore , the ar duous duous task , of refolving all reafoning ...
... attention than his predeceffors , the nature of truth , and the means of defending it against the attacks of declama- tion , and the fnares of rubilety . He undertook , therefore , the ar duous duous task , of refolving all reafoning ...
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... attention of pofterity . In his ab- ftract or metaphyfical philofophy , we can only lament vaft efforts mif - fpent , and great genius mifapplied . But , in his critical and mo- ral , and above all , in his political works , we find the ...
... attention of pofterity . In his ab- ftract or metaphyfical philofophy , we can only lament vaft efforts mif - fpent , and great genius mifapplied . But , in his critical and mo- ral , and above all , in his political works , we find the ...
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... attention of our Readers to the curious as well as valuable performance before us , which the ingenious Author , in this fecond edition , has enriched with many new obfervations and interesting facts , deduced from a more extenfive view ...
... attention of our Readers to the curious as well as valuable performance before us , which the ingenious Author , in this fecond edition , has enriched with many new obfervations and interesting facts , deduced from a more extenfive view ...
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... attention very early in life to inquire into the various causes of them ; not altogether with a view to investi- gate the formation of the earth , but to obtain fuch a competent Knowledge of fubterraneous geography , as might become ...
... attention very early in life to inquire into the various causes of them ; not altogether with a view to investi- gate the formation of the earth , but to obtain fuch a competent Knowledge of fubterraneous geography , as might become ...
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Página 92 - What hands are here ? ha ! they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand ? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Página 445 - I've paced much this weary mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare 'If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.
Página 446 - There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear ; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. Compared with this, how poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's every grace, except the heart...
Página 161 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Página 444 - But hark ! a rap comes gently to the door ; Jenny, wha kens the meaning o' the same, Tells how a neebor lad cam o'er the moor To do some errands, and convoy her hame. The wily mother sees the conscious flame Sparkle in Jenny's e'e, and flush her cheek : Wi...
Página 442 - ... friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays: With honest pride, I scorn each selfish end; My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise: To you I sing, in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's sequester'd scene; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways; What Aiken in a cottage would have been; Ah! tho' his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween.
Página 445 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Página 337 - That an unjust action has more demerit than an ungenerous one: That a generous action has more merit than a merely just one: That no man ought to be blamed for what it was not in his power to hinder...
Página 98 - Cook's person was in any danger, otherwise he would have detained the prince, which no doubt would have been a great check on the Indians. One man was...
Página 447 - From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov"d at home, rever'd abroad : Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, ' An honest man's the noblest work of God...