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... Society of Friends , 307 Baudelocque on the Cæsarean Operation , 430 Appeal to Experience , to 429 Part I. Archeologia , Vol . XIII . concluded , 30 Aris , Thomas , proceedings against , 102 Beaumont , Sir G. Poetical Epistle to , 436 ...
... Society of Friends , 307 Baudelocque on the Cæsarean Operation , 430 Appeal to Experience , to 429 Part I. Archeologia , Vol . XIII . concluded , 30 Aris , Thomas , proceedings against , 102 Beaumont , Sir G. Poetical Epistle to , 436 ...
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... Society , Part I , 1801. concluded , Peake on the Law of Evidence , Percival , a Novel , Dr. Letter to , Petersburgh , Picture of , 435 425 441 138 . 323 83 . Pbile- Philosophical Transaccions , Part II . 1801 . 291 220 vi CONTEN 1 S.
... Society , Part I , 1801. concluded , Peake on the Law of Evidence , Percival , a Novel , Dr. Letter to , Petersburgh , Picture of , 435 425 441 138 . 323 83 . Pbile- Philosophical Transaccions , Part II . 1801 . 291 220 vi CONTEN 1 S.
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... Society of Missions , Scriptures , Translation of , into Chinese , See Moseley . See Scott . Term Reports , Vol I. 45 110 Three Words to Mr. Pitt , Tithes , Law of , Townshend's Part of a Letter , 213 433 329 Travels CONTENTS . vii.
... Society of Missions , Scriptures , Translation of , into Chinese , See Moseley . See Scott . Term Reports , Vol I. 45 110 Three Words to Mr. Pitt , Tithes , Law of , Townshend's Part of a Letter , 213 433 329 Travels CONTENTS . vii.
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... society . The memoirs of such a man were not likely , however detailed , to be tedious ; and Lord Malmes- bury has made them too concise to be perfectly satisfactory . We rise from a perusal of this biographical sketch discon- tented ...
... society . The memoirs of such a man were not likely , however detailed , to be tedious ; and Lord Malmes- bury has made them too concise to be perfectly satisfactory . We rise from a perusal of this biographical sketch discon- tented ...
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... society of his friends and neighbours , with whom he kept up a constant and cheerful intercourse . The superior taste and skill which he possessed in music , and his extreme fondness for hearing it , led him to attend to its cultivation ...
... society of his friends and neighbours , with whom he kept up a constant and cheerful intercourse . The superior taste and skill which he possessed in music , and his extreme fondness for hearing it , led him to attend to its cultivation ...
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Page 465 - These are Grecian ghosts, that in battle were slain, And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew. Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes, And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Page 42 - Freewill they one way disavow, Another, nothing else allow ; All piety consists therein In them, in other men all sin ; Rather than fail, they will defy That which they love most tenderly : Quarrel with minced pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge ; Fat pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. Th' apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's, were ass and widgeon.
Page 158 - The patrons of the university, convinced that they would form a valuable addition to the system of education, agreed in the following summer to institute a rhetorical class under his direction, as a permanent part of their academical establishment. And on the 7th of April, 1762, his majesty was graciously pleased " to erect and endow a professorship of rhetoric and belles lettres in the university of Edinburgh, and to appoint Dr Blair, in consideration of his approved qualifications, regius professor...
Page 215 - How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on ! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept.
Page 47 - In deciding it we must take care to guard against two extremes equally prejudicial ; the one, that men of ability, who have employed their time for the service of the community, may not be deprived of their just merits, and the reward of their ingenuity and labour; the other, that the world may not be deprived of improvements, nor the progress of the arts be retarded.
Page 196 - O purchase kingdoms, and to buy renown, Are arts peculiar to dissembling France; You, mighty monarch, nobler actions crown, And solid virtue does your name advance. Your matchless courage with your prudence joins The glorious structure of your fame to raise ; With its own light your dazzling glory shines, And into adoration turns our praise. Had you by dull succession...
Page 357 - With heaven's artillery fraught, come rattling on Over the Caspian, then stand front to front, Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air...
Page 28 - I think, evidently weapons of war, fabricated and used by a people who had not the use of metals. They lay in great numbers at the depth of about twelve feet, in a stratified soil, which was dug into for the purpose of raising clay for bricks. The strata are as follows : 1.
Page 75 - ... peculiar transaction of the prisoners, but of immense bodies of the King's subjects in various parts of the kingdom, assembled without the smallest reserve, and giving to the public, through the channel of the daily newspapers, a minute and regular journal of their whole proceedings.
Page 158 - It was not till the year 1777 that he could be induced to favour the world with a volume of the Sermons which had so long furnished instruction and delight to his own congregation. But this volume being well received, the public approbation encouraged him to proceed : three other volumes followed at different intervals; and all of them experienced a degree of success of which few publications can boast. They circuited rapidly and widely wherever the English tongue extends ; they were soon translated...