The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Nide 7J. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1796 |
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Sivu 11
... objects ; but he was not able to accomplith the chief end of his voyage . He could find no porcelain earth , as the foil of both lands confifts of a calcareous earth and crystal rocks . His tour was how- ever of great utility ; the ...
... objects ; but he was not able to accomplith the chief end of his voyage . He could find no porcelain earth , as the foil of both lands confifts of a calcareous earth and crystal rocks . His tour was how- ever of great utility ; the ...
Sivu 34
... objects of general refpect and esteem . But virtue , which was a tacit reproach to the monfters who then devaftated this unfortunate country , was as offen- five to them as the light of day to the fullen bird of darknefs . It hap- pened ...
... objects of general refpect and esteem . But virtue , which was a tacit reproach to the monfters who then devaftated this unfortunate country , was as offen- five to them as the light of day to the fullen bird of darknefs . It hap- pened ...
Sivu 37
... object . His fuperiors had , according to their cuftom , infpected his reading and his writings . They had found among his papers fome scientific pro- jects of confiderable novelty . They configned in their regifter the follow- ing note ...
... object . His fuperiors had , according to their cuftom , infpected his reading and his writings . They had found among his papers fome scientific pro- jects of confiderable novelty . They configned in their regifter the follow- ing note ...
Sivu 39
... objects as come under the province of history . We may diftinguifh the political career of Sieyes into three intervals ; from the opening of the States Ge- neral to that of the Convention . The firft dates from the day wherein he ...
... objects as come under the province of history . We may diftinguifh the political career of Sieyes into three intervals ; from the opening of the States Ge- neral to that of the Convention . The firft dates from the day wherein he ...
Sivu 40
... object . A part of his projects and memoirs has remained behind , if it be not loft , a- mong the papers of the cnmmittees , and by himself they are scarcely ever remembered . This compofed the fecond period of his political life , lefs ...
... object . A part of his projects and memoirs has remained behind , if it be not loft , a- mong the papers of the cnmmittees , and by himself they are scarcely ever remembered . This compofed the fecond period of his political life , lefs ...
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Sivu 111 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed until I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Sivu 176 - Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure.
Sivu 111 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed...
Sivu 111 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
Sivu 111 - ... it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Sivu 111 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Sivu 111 - I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it...
Sivu 364 - All she has to do in this world is contained within the duties of a daughter, a sister, a wife, and a mother.
Sivu 353 - Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Sivu 124 - Their colour is invariably white, muzzle black ; the whole of the inside of the ear, and about one-third of the outside from the tip, downwards, red; horns white, with black tips, very fine, and bent upwards ; some of the bulls have a thin upright mane, about an inch and a half, or two inches long...