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... Opinion of the Ancients respecting the Moor , Professor , his Essay on the Greek Prepo- fitions Mountjoy , Lord , Account of Mufical Publications , Review of National Inftitute in Paris , Account of its Pro- ceedings National Debt , on ...
... Opinion of the Ancients respecting the Moor , Professor , his Essay on the Greek Prepo- fitions Mountjoy , Lord , Account of Mufical Publications , Review of National Inftitute in Paris , Account of its Pro- ceedings National Debt , on ...
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... opinion from those physicians and furgeons who have raifed our ex- pectations on this fubject . This diverfity of opinion being found- ed on actual obfervation , and not on any preconceived notions , has emboldened me to use the freedom ...
... opinion from those physicians and furgeons who have raifed our ex- pectations on this fubject . This diverfity of opinion being found- ed on actual obfervation , and not on any preconceived notions , has emboldened me to use the freedom ...
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... opinion , that no fociety of the kind can have had a fair trial in lefs time , as many years must elapfe , after fuch an inftitution is formed , before it can have any old members belonging to it , therefore not fubject to thofe ...
... opinion , that no fociety of the kind can have had a fair trial in lefs time , as many years must elapfe , after fuch an inftitution is formed , before it can have any old members belonging to it , therefore not fubject to thofe ...
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... opinion , as well as the opinion of Mr. BARTOLOZZI , ( who was prevented by indifpofition from attending on the occafion ) that the fpecimen produced by Mr. TIL- LOCK of a newly - invented art , was not copyable by any known art of en ...
... opinion , as well as the opinion of Mr. BARTOLOZZI , ( who was prevented by indifpofition from attending on the occafion ) that the fpecimen produced by Mr. TIL- LOCK of a newly - invented art , was not copyable by any known art of en ...
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... opinion he ftrives to combat and destroy by a long induction of paffages from the eminent writers of fix different periods , from the reign of Eli- zabeth to the end of that of George II . Now the opinion against which he fo laboriously ...
... opinion he ftrives to combat and destroy by a long induction of paffages from the eminent writers of fix different periods , from the reign of Eli- zabeth to the end of that of George II . Now the opinion against which he fo laboriously ...
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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.