A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 2John Walker Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... Biblical Difficulty obviated - XXI . Ancient and Fabulous History not always alle- gorical XXII . Virgil illustrated ... BIBLE XXXIV . A Passage in CICERO DE SENECTUTE Corrected from a MS . XXXV . The pretended power of Witchcraft over ...
... Biblical Difficulty obviated - XXI . Ancient and Fabulous History not always alle- gorical XXII . Virgil illustrated ... BIBLE XXXIV . A Passage in CICERO DE SENECTUTE Corrected from a MS . XXXV . The pretended power of Witchcraft over ...
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... Bible by DR . BLAYNEY XLIV . Remarks on the HUETIANA and a Passage in VIRGIL XLV . On Translation.MICKLE'S Lusiad XLVI . On the Mistakes of eminent Authors 151 : 52 157 159 - 160 XLVII . MARTIAL and STATIUS on the Bath of CLAUDIUS ...
... Bible by DR . BLAYNEY XLIV . Remarks on the HUETIANA and a Passage in VIRGIL XLV . On Translation.MICKLE'S Lusiad XLVI . On the Mistakes of eminent Authors 151 : 52 157 159 - 160 XLVII . MARTIAL and STATIUS on the Bath of CLAUDIUS ...
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... Bible , from the first impression by Fust , in 1462 , to the present time , in which will be contained the Polyglot ... Bibles , of which not one is forgotten , whether valuable for the pomp and beauty of the impression , or for the ...
... Bible , from the first impression by Fust , in 1462 , to the present time , in which will be contained the Polyglot ... Bibles , of which not one is forgotten , whether valuable for the pomp and beauty of the impression , or for the ...
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... Bibles and Biblical Books , 300 copies in the Hebrew , Chaldee , Greek , Arabic , and Latin languages , many of great antiquity , particularly , A Hebrew bible several hundred years old , to which are prefixed the various readings of ...
... Bibles and Biblical Books , 300 copies in the Hebrew , Chaldee , Greek , Arabic , and Latin languages , many of great antiquity , particularly , A Hebrew bible several hundred years old , to which are prefixed the various readings of ...
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... bible , written in the 14th century . A double roll , containing the Hebrew Pentateuch , written with great care in a very large character , and without points , or any horns or flourishes on the tops of the letters , on 40 brown ...
... bible , written in the 14th century . A double roll , containing the Hebrew Pentateuch , written with great care in a very large character , and without points , or any horns or flourishes on the tops of the letters , on 40 brown ...
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12th century Æneid amongst ancient animals Antonio's Revenge appears beautiful Bible Bishop bones called century church Cicero copy Crasis curious defective verbs Dryden earth Eclogue edition English expression father feet French give gospels Greek Hæc hand hath heaven Henry VIII Homer inches instance Johnson Julius Cæsar kind King language Latin learned letters likewise lines Lord loving Magazine manner means mentioned Milton months Mopsus nature never night observed occasion opinion original Ovid particular passage PAUL GEMSEGE Pelias perhaps person Phoenician alphabet Plautus play poem poet Pope præsens printed probably quæ quid quod reader reason remarkable Roman Saxon says seems sense Shakespeare shew signifies Silius Italicus speaking Statius supposed Syrinx Tempus thing thou thought tion translation URBAN verb verse Virgil whence whole winds word writers written
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Page 138 - And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
Page 320 - I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; — And take...
Page 302 - Under the opening eye-lids of the morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn...
Page 248 - Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether, though it were but for a while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself ; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular...
Page 75 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Page 321 - Glittering in golden coats, like images ; As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer ; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
Page 93 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Page 293 - On the other side; which, when the arch-felon saw, Due entrance he disdain'd ; and, in contempt, At one slight bound high overleap'd all bound Of hill or highest wall, and sheer within Lights on his feet. As when a prowling wolf, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey, Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve, In hurdled cotes amid the field secure, Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold...
Page 206 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Page 363 - Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next, and next all human race...