Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged, Volume 79Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths R. Griffiths., 1788 - Periodicals Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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... ancient fepulchral rite , but it is made pre- paratory to a stroke of tendernefs . He calls for a variety of flowers to decorate his friend's hearfe , fuppofing that his body was prefent , and forgetting for a while that it was floating ...
... ancient fepulchral rite , but it is made pre- paratory to a stroke of tendernefs . He calls for a variety of flowers to decorate his friend's hearfe , fuppofing that his body was prefent , and forgetting for a while that it was floating ...
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... ancient mafters of the military art . Victory , by fea and land , attended his arms . He fubdued Africa , Italy , and the adjacent iflands , led away captives the fuc- ceffors of Genferic and Theodoric ; filled Conftantinople with the ...
... ancient mafters of the military art . Victory , by fea and land , attended his arms . He fubdued Africa , Italy , and the adjacent iflands , led away captives the fuc- ceffors of Genferic and Theodoric ; filled Conftantinople with the ...
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... ancient days had cured difeafes , raifed the dead , divided the fea , ftopped the fun , and afcended to heaven in a fiery chariot . And the metaphori- REV . July , 1788 . C cal cal ftyle of the Hebrews might afcribe to a faint Gibbon's ...
... ancient days had cured difeafes , raifed the dead , divided the fea , ftopped the fun , and afcended to heaven in a fiery chariot . And the metaphori- REV . July , 1788 . C cal cal ftyle of the Hebrews might afcribe to a faint Gibbon's ...
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... ancient Germans had the greatest veneration for women : ' now they , we imagine , were not in any confiderable ftate of civilization . Whether that period has ever yet exifted in which women would find all that rational confequence he ...
... ancient Germans had the greatest veneration for women : ' now they , we imagine , were not in any confiderable ftate of civilization . Whether that period has ever yet exifted in which women would find all that rational confequence he ...
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... ancient modes of writing and abbrevia- tions , would be deterred from attempting fuch a task , by the uncouth appearance of the original . The obfolete words are continued , but the fenfe is expreffed by modern words or phrases , in ...
... ancient modes of writing and abbrevia- tions , would be deterred from attempting fuch a task , by the uncouth appearance of the original . The obfolete words are continued , but the fenfe is expreffed by modern words or phrases , in ...
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Page 529 - For him in vain his anxious wife shall wait, Or wander forth to meet him on his way; For him in vain, at to-fall of the day, His babes shall linger at. th' unclosing gate: Ah, ne'er shall he.
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Page 9 - Together both, ere the high Lawns appear'd 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, Batt'ning our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the Star that rose, at Ev'ning, bright Toward Heav'ns descent had slop'd his westering wheel.
Page 667 - No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise. A civil war indeed is like the heat of a fever, but a foreign war is like the heat of exercise, and serveth to keep the body in health, for in a slothful peace both courages will effeminate and manners corrupt.
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Page 213 - He may see the embryo statesman, who hereafter may wield and direct at pleasure the mighty and complex system of European Politics, now employing the whole extent of his abilities to circumvent his companions at their plays, or adjusting the important differences, which may arise between the contending heroes of his little circle; or a general, the future terror of France and Spain, now the dread only of his equals, and the undisputed lord and president of the boxing-ring.
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Page 81 - O'er the cold corse the warrior seems to bend, Deep sunk in grief, and mourns his murder'd friend ! Still as they press he calls on all around, Lifts the torn robe, and points the bleeding wound ! But who is he whose brows exalted bear A wrath impatient, and a fiercer airf ? Awake to all that injur'd worth can feel, On his own Rome he turns th
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