The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 101Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1831 - English essays |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 5
... periods , there are also a number of historical and other papers , & c . The Volume containing the Letters is by far ... period , and a quantity of James's letters to Eliza- beth , and to the Earl of Salisbury after his accession . The ...
... periods , there are also a number of historical and other papers , & c . The Volume containing the Letters is by far ... period , and a quantity of James's letters to Eliza- beth , and to the Earl of Salisbury after his accession . The ...
Page 12
... period when lancet archi- tecture had entirely disappeared . His pinnacle is square in plan , and crock etted at the angles - the shaft finished with an embattled cornice ; in its form therefore it differs from the other spires , which ...
... period when lancet archi- tecture had entirely disappeared . His pinnacle is square in plan , and crock etted at the angles - the shaft finished with an embattled cornice ; in its form therefore it differs from the other spires , which ...
Page 45
... period than the Austra- lian . In the latter we may therefore see the earliest known archetype . How the connection ensued between them , Solorzanus thus explains . * He says , that the old aborigines in the Isle of Cuba , ( who of ...
... period than the Austra- lian . In the latter we may therefore see the earliest known archetype . How the connection ensued between them , Solorzanus thus explains . * He says , that the old aborigines in the Isle of Cuba , ( who of ...
Page 65
... period Commander Foster was sedulously employed in the splendid observatory erect- ed by Government in this colony , and the young gentlemen of the Chanticleer equally so in their observations on magnetism , me- teorology , & c . St ...
... period Commander Foster was sedulously employed in the splendid observatory erect- ed by Government in this colony , and the young gentlemen of the Chanticleer equally so in their observations on magnetism , me- teorology , & c . St ...
Page 70
... period of his marriage with the Princess Charlotte ; re- serving , however , the payment of his out- standing debts , the maintenance in complete order and repair of Claremont , the annuities to his confidential servants , and the conti ...
... period of his marriage with the Princess Charlotte ; re- serving , however , the payment of his out- standing debts , the maintenance in complete order and repair of Claremont , the annuities to his confidential servants , and the conti ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
aged altar ancient antiquity appears appointed arch Archbishop arms Baron Bart beautiful Bishop Bitterley boroughs Bridge British Bushmen Capt Castle Celts character Charles Cholera Church coal command Coronation Crown daugh daughter death died Duke Earl Earl Marshal Edward eldest dau England English engraved Essex feet French friends GENT George Greek Henry honour House House of Commons HOUSE OF LORDS Ireland James John July King King's Knight Lady land late Latin letter Lieut Livy London Lord Lord Althorp Lord Chamberlain Lord Chancellor Lord Great Chamberlain Lordship Majesty married Mary ment observed original Oxford p.ct parish Parliament persons present Queen racter Rector Richard Robert Roman Royal says Sept side stone Thomas tion town URBAN Vicar Westminster widow wife William
Popular passages
Page 309 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 134 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 243 - tis and ever was my wish and way To let all flowers live freely, and all die, Whene'er their Genius bids their souls depart, Among their kindred in their native place. I never pluck the rose; the violet's head Hath shaken with my breath upon its bank And not reproacht me; the ever-sacred cup Of the pure lily hath between my hands Felt safe, unsoiled, nor lost one grain of gold.
Page 239 - The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction; pale, torpid, spiritless and helpless; gasping and groaning unpitied, among men made obdurate by long continuance...
Page 7 - That he needed no more soldiers ; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been up all night. So he left me, and I him, and walked home ; seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning, as pitch and tar, in Thames Street; and warehouses of oyle, and wines, and brandy, and other things.
Page 321 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Page 158 - There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.
Page 30 - Bushmans will kill their children without remorse, on various occasions; as when they are illshaped, when they are in want of food, when the father of a child has forsaken its mother, or when obliged to flee from the farmers or others ; in which case they will strangle them, smother them, cast them away in the desert, or bury them alive.
Page 236 - Johnson's own notions about eating however were nothing less than delicate : a leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal pie with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef, were his favourite dainties...
Page 340 - Sharon Turner's Sacred History of the World, attempted to be Philosophically considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son.