Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volumen99Pub. for J. Hinton., 1796 |
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... fuppofed the average fize of the new inclofures that have been made in this county to be fifteen acres ; if so , each clofe , by fencing one fide and one end , has 550 yards in length , on which timber might have been planted with the ...
... fuppofed the average fize of the new inclofures that have been made in this county to be fifteen acres ; if so , each clofe , by fencing one fide and one end , has 550 yards in length , on which timber might have been planted with the ...
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... fuppofed Orienta- lift , have not been uncommon . They are particularly pleafing , as the fatire they convey will admit of pointed obfervations and striking portraits , by which Folly may be corrected without harfhnéfs , and from the ...
... fuppofed Orienta- lift , have not been uncommon . They are particularly pleafing , as the fatire they convey will admit of pointed obfervations and striking portraits , by which Folly may be corrected without harfhnéfs , and from the ...
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... fuppofed fon of Ham , the fon of Noan ; and by other Orientalifts , to owe its origin to the river Indus . For the fake of fuch as take pleafure in tracing etymologies , I infert a note written on the margin of the copy of Gentoo laws ...
... fuppofed fon of Ham , the fon of Noan ; and by other Orientalifts , to owe its origin to the river Indus . For the fake of fuch as take pleafure in tracing etymologies , I infert a note written on the margin of the copy of Gentoo laws ...
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... fuppofed principal ( Mr. Cowan ) ufed to take his word cur- rently , and he had but to mention names for stock , fcrip , tickets , or loan , to be immediately supplied . The following fact may ferve as an inftance of his ftrength of ...
... fuppofed principal ( Mr. Cowan ) ufed to take his word cur- rently , and he had but to mention names for stock , fcrip , tickets , or loan , to be immediately supplied . The following fact may ferve as an inftance of his ftrength of ...
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... fuppofed to be the commodore ; when , after hail- ing her , and finding them to be a French fquadron , I ordered him to strike his co- lours , which he returned with a broadfide , and , I believe , was well repaid by one from the ...
... fuppofed to be the commodore ; when , after hail- ing her , and finding them to be a French fquadron , I ordered him to strike his co- lours , which he returned with a broadfide , and , I believe , was well repaid by one from the ...
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Página 78 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Página 80 - How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that? And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
Página 352 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct: and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Página 352 - ... magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
Página 85 - He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Página 349 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
Página 78 - Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops. Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Página 352 - Nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.
Página 32 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter', that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 354 - The inducements of interest for observing that conduct will best be referred to your own reflections and experience. With me, a. predominant motive has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress, without interruption, to that degree of strength and consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes.