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... some tre- mendous thunder : it was , on the whole , a tolerably fair month ; but was liable to occafional storms of wind and rain , which did much damage in beating down the corn , which from the length and thick- ness of its stalk ...
... some tre- mendous thunder : it was , on the whole , a tolerably fair month ; but was liable to occafional storms of wind and rain , which did much damage in beating down the corn , which from the length and thick- ness of its stalk ...
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... Some obfervations being loft , not exactly known . April 49 6th 42 25th 60 70 플 June July May 57 10th 59 3d 681 45 25th 50 19 & 28 65 3d 58 17th 81 Auguft 645 & 23 60 8th 71 Septem . 59 26th 56 1st October 51 26th 43 Ift to 5th Novem ...
... Some obfervations being loft , not exactly known . April 49 6th 42 25th 60 70 플 June July May 57 10th 59 3d 681 45 25th 50 19 & 28 65 3d 58 17th 81 Auguft 645 & 23 60 8th 71 Septem . 59 26th 56 1st October 51 26th 43 Ift to 5th Novem ...
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... some errors in my account of Lupercio and Barto- lome Leonardo . I afferted , from the Parnafo Efpanol , that no edition of their works had been printed fince that of Zaragofa , 1634 : I have now procured one published fince the Parnafo ...
... some errors in my account of Lupercio and Barto- lome Leonardo . I afferted , from the Parnafo Efpanol , that no edition of their works had been printed fince that of Zaragofa , 1634 : I have now procured one published fince the Parnafo ...
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... SOME OTHER PARTS OF IRELAND ; VIZ . THE COUNTIES OF KILDARE AND WICKLOW , MADE IN THE SUMMER OF 1797 . MR . EDITOR , MY prefent intention is to give ( through the medium of the Monthly Maga- zine ) an impartial view of fome parts of ...
... SOME OTHER PARTS OF IRELAND ; VIZ . THE COUNTIES OF KILDARE AND WICKLOW , MADE IN THE SUMMER OF 1797 . MR . EDITOR , MY prefent intention is to give ( through the medium of the Monthly Maga- zine ) an impartial view of fome parts of ...
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... Some Anglo- American authors have written efteemed moral works ; but thefe are fo voluminous , fo dear , and fo little read , that they ferve here , as in Europe , to fupport the pomp of a library , which is vifited from a motive of ...
... Some Anglo- American authors have written efteemed moral works ; but thefe are fo voluminous , fo dear , and fo little read , that they ferve here , as in Europe , to fupport the pomp of a library , which is vifited from a motive of ...
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Page 203 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, • O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Page 281 - Selkirk's interest with his king, and esteeming, as I do, his private character, I wished to make him the happy instrument of alleviating the horrors of hopeless captivity, when the brave are overpowered and made prisoners of war. It was perhaps, fortunate for you, Madam, that he was from home, for it was my intention to have taken him on board the Ranger, and to have detained him until, through his means, a general and fair exchange of prisoners, as well in Europe as in America, had been effected.
Page 203 - Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State...
Page 114 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 261 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Page 364 - ... desk, where he sat and wrote after copies of court and other hands the clerks gave him. He made himself so expert a writer that he took in business, and earned some pence by hackney-writing.
Page 282 - " I hope this cruel contest will soon be closed ; but should it continue, I wage no war with the fair. I acknowledge their force, and bend before it with submission. Let not, therefore, the amiable Countess of Selkirk regard me...
Page 282 - The amiable lieutenant lay mortally wounded, besides near forty of the inferior officers and crew, killed and wounded: a melancholy demonstration of the uncertainty of human prospects, and of the sad reverse of fortune which an hour can produce.
Page 46 - Mr. Wilkes, as an officer in the militia for the faid county of Buckingham. I am with refpect, My Lord, Your lordlhip's moft obedient » humble fervant, Whitehall, EGREMONT.
Page 364 - EXTRACT FROM NORTH'S LIFE OF THE LORD KEEPER GUILFORD.* The Lord Chief Justice Saunders succeeded in the room of Pemberton. His character and his beginning were equally strange. He was at first no better than a poor beggar boy, if not a parish foundling, without known parents or relations. He had found a way to live by obsequiousness in Clement's Inn, as I remember, and courting the attorney's clerks for scraps.