A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volumen2John Walker Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... things , even in the remotest times . To give a few examples : History tells us , that Cyrus the Great was nursed by a bitch ... thing could be better adapted to the manner of the ancient oracles ) in these artificial and ambiguous terms ...
... things , even in the remotest times . To give a few examples : History tells us , that Cyrus the Great was nursed by a bitch ... thing could be better adapted to the manner of the ancient oracles ) in these artificial and ambiguous terms ...
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... things themselves couched under those words , be as wide from , and as contrary to each other , as light is to darkness , and truth to falshood , yet you are to take two or three quarters of that ( not thing but ) word , which in like ...
... things themselves couched under those words , be as wide from , and as contrary to each other , as light is to darkness , and truth to falshood , yet you are to take two or three quarters of that ( not thing but ) word , which in like ...
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... things , when all the while it is concerned only in let- ters , syllables , and words ; it is nothing but a mere shadow of a species of false wit ; it has no foundation in nature , but only in the mere arbitrary formation and casual ...
... things , when all the while it is concerned only in let- ters , syllables , and words ; it is nothing but a mere shadow of a species of false wit ; it has no foundation in nature , but only in the mere arbitrary formation and casual ...
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... things are so , but will be prying into the causes and occasion of them ; and this curiosity , which is certainly very laudable , when restrained within proper bounds , ex- tends even to languages , in which there is hardly a word , a ...
... things are so , but will be prying into the causes and occasion of them ; and this curiosity , which is certainly very laudable , when restrained within proper bounds , ex- tends even to languages , in which there is hardly a word , a ...
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... thing , that is , a favourable interpretation or construction ; gloss , a fair shining outside ; and to gloze , to flatter . Yours , & c . Whittington , Oct. 19 , 1753 . PAUL GEMSEGE . 1753 , Oct. VIII . On the ancient SYRINX as ...
... thing , that is , a favourable interpretation or construction ; gloss , a fair shining outside ; and to gloze , to flatter . Yours , & c . Whittington , Oct. 19 , 1753 . PAUL GEMSEGE . 1753 , Oct. VIII . On the ancient SYRINX as ...
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volumen2 John Walker Vista completa - 1811 |
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Página 138 - And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
Página 320 - I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; — And take...
Página 302 - Under the opening eye-lids of the morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn...
Página 248 - Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether, though it were but for a while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself ; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular...
Página 75 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Página 321 - Glittering in golden coats, like images ; As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer ; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
Página 93 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Página 293 - On the other side; which, when the arch-felon saw, Due entrance he disdain'd ; and, in contempt, At one slight bound high overleap'd all bound Of hill or highest wall, and sheer within Lights on his feet. As when a prowling wolf, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey, Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve, In hurdled cotes amid the field secure, Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold...
Página 206 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Página 363 - Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next, and next all human race...