Edinburgh Magazine: Or Literary Miscellany, Volumes 14-15J. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1800 - Books and bookselling |
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... Saint Elizabeth obtained not " paradife by the wearing of fuch 66 trumpery . " " He then proceeds to deride the exceffive width of these head - dreffea , and fpeaks of the quan- tity of fine linen that was used to de- corate them , with ...
... Saint Elizabeth obtained not " paradife by the wearing of fuch 66 trumpery . " " He then proceeds to deride the exceffive width of these head - dreffea , and fpeaks of the quan- tity of fine linen that was used to de- corate them , with ...
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... SAINT GOTHARD . By Georgiana , Duchess of Devonshire . ( 1 ) YE TO MY CHILDREN E plains , where three - fold harvests prefs the ground , Ye climes , where genial gales inceffant fwell , Where art and nature fhed profufely round Their ...
... SAINT GOTHARD . By Georgiana , Duchess of Devonshire . ( 1 ) YE TO MY CHILDREN E plains , where three - fold harvests prefs the ground , Ye climes , where genial gales inceffant fwell , Where art and nature fhed profufely round Their ...
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... Saint Peter and Saint Andrew , Saint Mi- chaelina , the Annunciation of the Virgin , taken from the pontifical pa- lace of Loretto , the Circumcifion of Chrift , procured from Pefaro , the Virgin , Saint Antony , and Saint Lucia , from ...
... Saint Peter and Saint Andrew , Saint Mi- chaelina , the Annunciation of the Virgin , taken from the pontifical pa- lace of Loretto , the Circumcifion of Chrift , procured from Pefaro , the Virgin , Saint Antony , and Saint Lucia , from ...
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... Saint John preaching in the Defert , a Concert on the Water , two Martyrdoms of Saint Stephen . We have fince pro- cured , of his performances , the Mournful , Mother , or Chrift lying dead in the arms of the Virgin , Saint Luke and the ...
... Saint John preaching in the Defert , a Concert on the Water , two Martyrdoms of Saint Stephen . We have fince pro- cured , of his performances , the Mournful , Mother , or Chrift lying dead in the arms of the Virgin , Saint Luke and the ...
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... Saint Placidia and of her fifter Saint Flavia . Domenichino ( Domenico Zampieri , called , ) born at Bologna in 1581 , died at Naples in 1641. He was the pupil of Denis Calvart , and af terward of the Caracci . He perfect- ed himself at ...
... Saint Placidia and of her fifter Saint Flavia . Domenichino ( Domenico Zampieri , called , ) born at Bologna in 1581 , died at Naples in 1641. He was the pupil of Denis Calvart , and af terward of the Caracci . He perfect- ed himself at ...
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Page 284 - ... and (as a matter of infinite importance in my judgment) by associating with each other, and forming friendships in juvenile years, be enabled to free themselves in a proper degree from those local prejudices...
Page 330 - But as he is convinced that the fashion of moralizing in verse has been carried too far, and as he looks upon invention and imagination to be the chief faculties of a poet, so he will be happy if the following Odes may be looked upon as an attempt to bring back poetry into its right channel.
Page 283 - The negroes thus bound, are (by their masters or mistresses) to be taught to read and write, and to be brought up to some useful occupation, agreeably to the laws of the commonwealth of Virginia, providing for the support of orphan and other poor children.
Page 40 - ... him to make it of the same fashion, that the knight would have his made of. Not long after the knight coming to the...
Page 341 - Vernon, then less extensive in domain than at present, should become his property,) I give and bequeath all that part thereof, which is comprehended within the following limits, viz. Beginning at the ford of Dogue Run, near my Mill, and extending along the road, and bounded thereby, as it now goes, and ever has gone, since my recollection of it, to the ford of Little Hunting Creek, at the Gum Spring...
Page 284 - ... to see the youth of these United States sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education, often before their minds were formed or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of the happiness of their own, contracting too frequently not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican government and to the true and genuine liberties of mankind, •which thereafter are rarely overcome.
Page 286 - I give and bequeath all the papers in my possession, which relate to my civil and military administration of the affairs of this country. I leave to him also such of my private papers as are worth preserving; and at the decease of my wife, and before, if she is not inclined to retain them, I give and bequeath my library of books and pamphlets of every kind.
Page 283 - ... the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor ; it not being in my power, under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held, to manumit them.
Page 342 - In consideration of the consanguinity between them and my wife, being as nearly related to her as to myself, as on account of the affection I had for, and the obligation I was under to, their father when living, who from his youth had attached himself to my person, and followed my fortunes through the...
Page 120 - His Majesty will eagerly embrace the opportunity to concert with his allies the means of immediate and general pacification. Unhappily no such security hitherto exists : no sufficient evidence of the principles by which the new government will be directed ; no reasonable ground by which to judge of its stability.