Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volume 28Pub. for J. Hinton., 1761 |
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... confiderable to their neighbours , fully proves the obfervation to be true . The Romans , who afpired to nothing less than universal empire , while their conquests were confined within the narrow bounds of Italy , were fo much ...
... confiderable to their neighbours , fully proves the obfervation to be true . The Romans , who afpired to nothing less than universal empire , while their conquests were confined within the narrow bounds of Italy , were fo much ...
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... confiderable than that of the Eaft - Indies , he discovered thereby the importance of navigation and of long voya ges , and he obferved that thofe voyages were not only indications of the power of a state , but also an infallible means ...
... confiderable than that of the Eaft - Indies , he discovered thereby the importance of navigation and of long voya ges , and he obferved that thofe voyages were not only indications of the power of a state , but also an infallible means ...
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... confiderable articles of ex- pence , being laid out within the ftate , fur- nish feveral inhabitants with the means of living and inriching themfelves . It employs all the inhabitants of the fea - coafts , who can hardly be useful in ...
... confiderable articles of ex- pence , being laid out within the ftate , fur- nish feveral inhabitants with the means of living and inriching themfelves . It employs all the inhabitants of the fea - coafts , who can hardly be useful in ...
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... confiderable party had elected the Prince Ladiflaus , fon of Sigif mond III , King of Poland . The neigh bouring provinces to Sweden had offered the crown to a brother of Gultavus Adolphus . Thus Ruffia was in the fame fituation Po ...
... confiderable party had elected the Prince Ladiflaus , fon of Sigif mond III , King of Poland . The neigh bouring provinces to Sweden had offered the crown to a brother of Gultavus Adolphus . Thus Ruffia was in the fame fituation Po ...
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... confiderable fric- tion , which produces a violent obftacle as to motion , and destroys a part of the force of elafticity . The bodies that have the leaft pores , that are the best polifhed and moft folid , are per- haps thofe that have ...
... confiderable fric- tion , which produces a violent obftacle as to motion , and destroys a part of the force of elafticity . The bodies that have the leaft pores , that are the best polifhed and moft folid , are per- haps thofe that have ...
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Page 343 - I cannot determine; but it is plain he had much reading at least, if they will not call it learning. Nor is it any great matter, if a man has knowledge, whether he has it from one language or from another.
Page 337 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter that it redoubled...
Page 167 - Albeit that Good Works, which are the fruits of Faith, and follow after Justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God's judgment; yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and do spring out necessarily of a true and lively Faith; insomuch that by them a lively Faith may be as evidently known as a tree discerned by the fruit.
Page 343 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent fancy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometime it was necessary he should be stopped.
Page 343 - ... mine own candour; for I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.
Page 343 - His sentiments are not only in general the most pertinent and judicious upon every subject ; but, by a talent very peculiar, something between penetration and felicity...
Page 268 - H 2 where where put to flight, they thought proper at laft to retire to their own citadels; that is, to form numerous and brilliant aflemblies at their own hotels, in which they imagined that they could neither be imitated nor intruded on.
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Page 235 - ... be paid into the receipt of his majefty's exchequer, to be applied, from time to time, to fuch...
Page 343 - ... human nature at one glance, and to be the only author that gives ground for a very new opinion, that the philosopher, and even the man of the world, may be born, as well as the poet.