Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 103, Part 1; Volume 153F. Jefferies, 1833 - Early English newspapers The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs. |
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... passed much of their lives in the study of the ancient tongues , have frequently at command only the colloquial phraseology of their own . They have never made it their care either to write or to speak in their own language with ...
... passed much of their lives in the study of the ancient tongues , have frequently at command only the colloquial phraseology of their own . They have never made it their care either to write or to speak in their own language with ...
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... passed over three entire schools , the Ferrarese , the Genoese , and the Piedmontese ; much less why he has treated in so cursory a manner the first and last epochs of the other schools . A copious Index we should also have thought an ...
... passed over three entire schools , the Ferrarese , the Genoese , and the Piedmontese ; much less why he has treated in so cursory a manner the first and last epochs of the other schools . A copious Index we should also have thought an ...
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... passed the magnificent Exchange , whose turrets are adorned with the grasshopper , his crest , but even amid the bustle of the thronged street have entertained a transient thought of his bounty . The circumstances of his patriotic life ...
... passed the magnificent Exchange , whose turrets are adorned with the grasshopper , his crest , but even amid the bustle of the thronged street have entertained a transient thought of his bounty . The circumstances of his patriotic life ...
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... passed , and the oppressions of which the Irish legislature was guilty . After exhibiting the selfishness and worth- lessness of Irish Parliaments , and the apparent malice with which their mal- government has been attributed by ...
... passed , and the oppressions of which the Irish legislature was guilty . After exhibiting the selfishness and worth- lessness of Irish Parliaments , and the apparent malice with which their mal- government has been attributed by ...
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... passing against him a Bill of Attainder , and thus taking unto themselves his immense property . " " In the year 1723 , and the 10th of Geo . I. our frish Parliament passed eight violent resolutions against us : one would have supposed ...
... passing against him a Bill of Attainder , and thus taking unto themselves his immense property . " " In the year 1723 , and the 10th of Geo . I. our frish Parliament passed eight violent resolutions against us : one would have supposed ...
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Page 137 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Page 394 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 405 - Call for the robin-red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm, But keep the wolf far thence that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
Page 457 - The evidence that there is a Being, all-powerful, wise, and good, by whom every thing exists ; and particularly, to obviate difficulties regarding the wisdom and goodness of the Deity ; and this, in the first place, from considerations independent of written revelation, and, in the second place, from the Revelation of the Lord Jesus ; and from the whole, to point out the inferences most necessary for and useful to mankind.
Page 208 - Yes, trust them not, for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 405 - ... shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm; But keep the wolf far thence; that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
Page 142 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Page 42 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 233 - Heaven, with all his host Of rebel angels, by whose aid, aspiring To set himself in glory...
Page 308 - And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee : and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.