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... 1798 . FROM JANUARY TO JUNE , INCLUSIVE . ET VOL . V. I Forthbert LONDON : PRINTED FOR R. PHILLIPS , No. 71 , AND SOLD BY J. JOHNSON , No. 72 , ST . PAUL'S CHURCH YARD . 1798 . PREFACE . WE E fhould charge ourfelves with ingratitude to.
... 1798 . FROM JANUARY TO JUNE , INCLUSIVE . ET VOL . V. I Forthbert LONDON : PRINTED FOR R. PHILLIPS , No. 71 , AND SOLD BY J. JOHNSON , No. 72 , ST . PAUL'S CHURCH YARD . 1798 . PREFACE . WE E fhould charge ourfelves with ingratitude to.
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... June 484 Anecdote of 23 Abernethy , Mr. his Mode of ventilating Ships Bute , Anecdote of 197 176 Albergati Capacelli , Anecdotes of America , Literary Intelligence from - a Tour in 206 Cappe , Mrs. on Charity Schools for Girls on Female ...
... June 484 Anecdote of 23 Abernethy , Mr. his Mode of ventilating Ships Bute , Anecdote of 197 176 Albergati Capacelli , Anecdotes of America , Literary Intelligence from - a Tour in 206 Cappe , Mrs. on Charity Schools for Girls on Female ...
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... June 461 Highland Drefs , Origin of 401 Hiftory , Review of Books on 483 , 513 - on Horace , Tranflation of an Ode of 428 , 35 247,418 Horneman , the Traveller , Account of Houfman's Tour , continued Mathematics and Aftronomy , Account ...
... June 461 Highland Drefs , Origin of 401 Hiftory , Review of Books on 483 , 513 - on Horace , Tranflation of an Ode of 428 , 35 247,418 Horneman , the Traveller , Account of Houfman's Tour , continued Mathematics and Aftronomy , Account ...
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... June 457 March April 309 -Februray 138 May 390 March 220 June 4,66 -April 297 Oil , a Cure for the Plague 253 May 377 . Opoffum , Virginian , defcr.bed 120 -June 453 on Orthography , on the improvement of Oftend , attacked by the ...
... June 457 March April 309 -Februray 138 May 390 March 220 June 4,66 -April 297 Oil , a Cure for the Plague 253 May 377 . Opoffum , Virginian , defcr.bed 120 -June 453 on Orthography , on the improvement of Oftend , attacked by the ...
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... June 59 July 66 Auguft 631 September 56 % October 48 November 41 December 424 Average of the year , 491 That of the year 1796 was 49 : fo that the difference of heat in the two years con- fifted almoft folely in the diftribution , not ...
... June 59 July 66 Auguft 631 September 56 % October 48 November 41 December 424 Average of the year , 491 That of the year 1796 was 49 : fo that the difference of heat in the two years con- fifted almoft folely in the diftribution , not ...
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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.