The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 2H.D. Symonds, 1797 |
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... Palmyra are no more ! Proud and mighty LONDON may , one day , be added to the number !! All things beneath the fun are destined to decay ; for they contain within their bofom the feeds of diffolution . But fometimes the elements ...
... Palmyra are no more ! Proud and mighty LONDON may , one day , be added to the number !! All things beneath the fun are destined to decay ; for they contain within their bofom the feeds of diffolution . But fometimes the elements ...
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ter of Mr. Murray of Covent Garden ) in the difficult part of Palmyra , in the tragedy of Mahomet . Her re- prefentation of it , for a girl of only fourteen years of age , was truly great . Her perfon is elegant ; her face handfome ...
ter of Mr. Murray of Covent Garden ) in the difficult part of Palmyra , in the tragedy of Mahomet . Her re- prefentation of it , for a girl of only fourteen years of age , was truly great . Her perfon is elegant ; her face handfome ...
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... Palmyra and Jeffe Oatland COVENT GARDEN . Abington's , Mrs. Beatrice Eftifania Lady Racket Mrs. Oakley Betterton's , Mifs , Elwina Portia Mr. Caftalio Clarke's , Mr. Buckingham Polydore Crawford's , Mrs. Lady Randolph Holman's , Mr ...
... Palmyra and Jeffe Oatland COVENT GARDEN . Abington's , Mrs. Beatrice Eftifania Lady Racket Mrs. Oakley Betterton's , Mifs , Elwina Portia Mr. Caftalio Clarke's , Mr. Buckingham Polydore Crawford's , Mrs. Lady Randolph Holman's , Mr ...
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... throng , Let Mirth and Joy the fleeting hours prolong ; Let Pleasure round thy brows her wreath entwine , And rofy love , and carelefs mirth be thine ! TOHN DOBBINSON . F PALMYRA . A TALE . AR from the fplendid 60 THE MONTHLY VISITOR .
... throng , Let Mirth and Joy the fleeting hours prolong ; Let Pleasure round thy brows her wreath entwine , And rofy love , and carelefs mirth be thine ! TOHN DOBBINSON . F PALMYRA . A TALE . AR from the fplendid 60 THE MONTHLY VISITOR .
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F PALMYRA . A TALE . AR from the fplendid world , amid the wild Romantic scenery of the Cambrian rocks , Where the wave dashes o'er the whiten'd cliff , And from the mountain's fummit , tree - cnrob'd , Thunders the falling torrent ...
F PALMYRA . A TALE . AR from the fplendid world , amid the wild Romantic scenery of the Cambrian rocks , Where the wave dashes o'er the whiten'd cliff , And from the mountain's fummit , tree - cnrob'd , Thunders the falling torrent ...
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Page 418 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Page 418 - The institutions of policy, the goods of fortune, the gifts of Providence, are handed down to us, and from us in the same course and order. Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory, parts...
Page 421 - ... it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes.
Page 461 - If a great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to it ; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way. Every fear, every hope will forward it ; and then they who persist in opposing this mighty current in human affairs, will appear rather to resist the decrees of Providence itself, than the mere designs of men. They will not be resolute and firm, but perverse and obstinate...
Page 421 - The science of government being therefore so practical in itself, and intended for such practical purposes, a matter which requires experience, and even more experience than any person can gain in his whole life, however sagacious and...
Page 423 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone...
Page 417 - You will observe, that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
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