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... give the natural history of the animals , and plants , of a kingdom . But when re- stricted within proper bounds , and in some imitation of classical prac- tice , these sketches may be regarded as not only among the most in- structive ...
... give the natural history of the animals , and plants , of a kingdom . But when re- stricted within proper bounds , and in some imitation of classical prac- tice , these sketches may be regarded as not only among the most in- structive ...
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... give birth to others of the same kind . There was , thus , at all times , an infinite number of greater and smaller vortices , or circular streams , revolving in the universe . But , whatever moves in a circle , is constantly ...
... give birth to others of the same kind . There was , thus , at all times , an infinite number of greater and smaller vortices , or circular streams , revolving in the universe . But , whatever moves in a circle , is constantly ...
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... give satisfaction to our readers . They are , however , ingeniously devised ; and admitting the accuracy with which they were conducted , and that of the results de- duced from them , ( of which there seems no sufficient reason to doubt ...
... give satisfaction to our readers . They are , however , ingeniously devised ; and admitting the accuracy with which they were conducted , and that of the results de- duced from them , ( of which there seems no sufficient reason to doubt ...
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... give an edition of Virgil , we would replace nomen . Nothing is more natural . Not only the sight , but the very name , of the sea was odious to those good matrons . 1 En . VI . V. 361. He reads with the MS . of Jesus Coll , ignava for ...
... give an edition of Virgil , we would replace nomen . Nothing is more natural . Not only the sight , but the very name , of the sea was odious to those good matrons . 1 En . VI . V. 361. He reads with the MS . of Jesus Coll , ignava for ...
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... gives , in his Preface , of his plan and conduct in the selection , is , that he has chosen from the various Auas ... give offence to decency . A few extracts will probably be expected , by way of specimen : Bells were first brought ...
... gives , in his Preface , of his plan and conduct in the selection , is , that he has chosen from the various Auas ... give offence to decency . A few extracts will probably be expected , by way of specimen : Bells were first brought ...
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Seite 80 - An universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds Perverse all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire," — this would doubtless have been noble writing.
Seite 106 - I've let lodgings ten years, — I'ma baker to boot; " In airing your sheets, sir, my wife is no sloven; " And your bed is immediately — over my oven." "The oven!!!" — says Will ;— says the host, "Why this passion ? " In that excellent bed died three people of fashion.
Seite 362 - It is to the strength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture which is so forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him.
Seite 106 - I've enough of them there without paying for drugs!" Will kicked out the doctor; but when ill indeed, E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed; So calling his host, he said, "Sir, do you know, I'm the fat single gentleman six months ago? "Look'e, landlord, I think...
Seite 34 - And hurry! hurry! clash, clash, clash! The wasted form descends; And fleet as wind through hazel bush The wild career attends.
Seite 140 - And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all he knew.
Seite 479 - ... importance, his conduct in parliament would be directed by nothing but the constitutional duty of a peer. He would consider himself as a guardian of the laws. Willing to support the just measures of government, but determined to observe the...
Seite 84 - ... which was granted him. He proceeded accordingly, but on approaching the estate, to his surprise and grief he found all the negroes in arms on the side of the rebels, and (horrid to tell!) their standard was the body of a white infant, which they had recently impaled on a stake!
Seite 137 - ... his small size, his step was firm, and his appearance, till within a few years of his death, vigorous and muscular. His face, for an old man, was one of the finest we have seen. A clear, smooth forehead, an aquiline nose, an eye the brightest and...
Seite 31 - And even we, while we have been endeavouring to represent all philosophical systems as mere inventions of the imagination, to connect together the otherwise disjointed and discordant phenomena of Nature, have insensibly been drawn in, to make use of language expressing the connecting principles of this one, as if they were the real chains which Nature makes use of to bind together her several operations.