A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Band 4John Walker Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... known wherever the English language is spoken . To this undertaking he owed the affluence in which be passed the last twenty years of his life ; and the fortune which he left behind him , which , though large , had been yet larger , had ...
... known wherever the English language is spoken . To this undertaking he owed the affluence in which be passed the last twenty years of his life ; and the fortune which he left behind him , which , though large , had been yet larger , had ...
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... , which as yet are known but to few , and to connect them have briefly related the principal events that have already appeared in print . As he was my preceptor , the greater 6 Professor Saunderson . Memoirs of Professor SAUNDERSON.
... , which as yet are known but to few , and to connect them have briefly related the principal events that have already appeared in print . As he was my preceptor , the greater 6 Professor Saunderson . Memoirs of Professor SAUNDERSON.
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... known whether he commenced ' player before or after he began to write . ' From an old pamphlet , written by Downes the prompter , printed in 1708 , called Roscius Anglicanus , I learn that his appearance on the stage as an actor , was ...
... known whether he commenced ' player before or after he began to write . ' From an old pamphlet , written by Downes the prompter , printed in 1708 , called Roscius Anglicanus , I learn that his appearance on the stage as an actor , was ...
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... known , after having dissuaded many of the clergy , in 1688 , who had a confidence in his judgment , from taking the oaths , took them himself on the last day limited by act of Parliament , and left his friends in the lurch . Soon after ...
... known , after having dissuaded many of the clergy , in 1688 , who had a confidence in his judgment , from taking the oaths , took them himself on the last day limited by act of Parliament , and left his friends in the lurch . Soon after ...
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... known . The first made its appearance in an obscure pamphlet printed many years since ; the other in one more respectable , but which did not more engage the public attention . I wish more circumstances relating to famous men were ...
... known . The first made its appearance in an obscure pamphlet printed many years since ; the other in one more respectable , but which did not more engage the public attention . I wish more circumstances relating to famous men were ...
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Seite 344 - To failings mild, but zealous for desert; The clearest head, and the sincerest heart. This humble praise, lamented Shade! receive, This praise at least a grateful Muse may give: The Muse whose early voice you taught to sing...
Seite 381 - Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country.
Seite 384 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Seite 354 - A Companion to the Guide, and a Guide to the Companion; being a complete Supplement to all the Accounts of Oxford hitherto published.
Seite 32 - Divi Britannici, being a Remark upon the Lives of all the Kings of this Isle, from the year of the world 2855, unto the year of grace 1660, fol.
Seite 304 - An Account of an attempt to ascertain the Longitude at Sea, by an exact Theory of the Variation of the Magnetical Needle...
Seite 165 - If such a correspondence will be agreeable to you, be pleased to inform me in two posts, •what the conditions are on which you shall expect it. Your late ofFer|" gives me no reason to distrust your generosity. If you engage in any literary projects besides this paper, I have other designs to impart, if I could be secure from having others reap the advantage of what I should hint.
Seite 165 - As you appear no less sensible than your readers of the defects of your poetical article, you will not be displeased, if, in order to the improvement of it, I communicate to you the sentiments of a person, who will undertake, on reasonable terms, sometimes to fill a column.
Seite 476 - An historical View of the English Biblical Translations : the Expediency of revising by Authority our present Translation : and the Means of executing such a Revision.
Seite 385 - Reynolds, who was the intimate and beloved friend of that great man ; the friend whom he declared to be " the most invulnerable man he knew ; whom, if he should quarrel with him, he should find the most difficulty how to abuse.