The British Magazine and Review: Or, Universaal Miscellany of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Entertainment, Poetry, Politics, Manners, Amusements and Intelligence Foreign and Domestic, Volume 3Harrison & Company, 1783 |
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... it's expiration ; not only to be informed of such transactions as really happen during the laft five or fix days , but to have time to de- cide on their authenticity , before they are irrevocably registered . What would the world think ...
... it's expiration ; not only to be informed of such transactions as really happen during the laft five or fix days , but to have time to de- cide on their authenticity , before they are irrevocably registered . What would the world think ...
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... it's name . The architect of this fuperb . ftruc- ture was Sir John Vanbrugh ; who , though he has been perhaps justly blamed for a heavinefs in his general defigns , muft at leaft ftand acquitted in this inftance , when it is ...
... it's name . The architect of this fuperb . ftruc- ture was Sir John Vanbrugh ; who , though he has been perhaps justly blamed for a heavinefs in his general defigns , muft at leaft ftand acquitted in this inftance , when it is ...
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... it's bofom , and move imper- ceptibly along , is certainly one of the fineft pieces of water in this kingdom . The Park , which , under the au- fpices of the prefent duke , has re- ceived every poffible improvement , is one continued ...
... it's bofom , and move imper- ceptibly along , is certainly one of the fineft pieces of water in this kingdom . The Park , which , under the au- fpices of the prefent duke , has re- ceived every poffible improvement , is one continued ...
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... it's gravity con- tinually decreafes , it at length be comes lighter than vapour in it's upper parts , and in one particular region between , being equally heavy pours confequently rife from the fur face of the earth to this part of the ...
... it's gravity con- tinually decreafes , it at length be comes lighter than vapour in it's upper parts , and in one particular region between , being equally heavy pours confequently rife from the fur face of the earth to this part of the ...
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... it's vibrations excited in the highest degree , occa- fions those loud reports from the up- per regions , and expanding over all the inferior parts of the atmosphere , propagate thofe awful founds which we call Thunder . A Thunder Bolt ...
... it's vibrations excited in the highest degree , occa- fions those loud reports from the up- per regions , and expanding over all the inferior parts of the atmosphere , propagate thofe awful founds which we call Thunder . A Thunder Bolt ...
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Page 137 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
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Page 217 - Holy and Undivided Trinity. It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the hearts of the Most Serene and Most Potent Prince, George the Third, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg, ArchTreasurer and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, &c...
Page 133 - Such is that room which one rude beam divides, And naked rafters form the sloping sides; Where the vile bands that bind the thatch are seen, And lath and mud are all that lie between; Save one dull pane, that, coarsely...
Page 133 - Thus groan the old, till by disease oppress'd, They taste a final woe, and then they rest. Theirs is yon House, that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day ;— There children dwell who know no parents' care; Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there!
Page 134 - And far unlike him, feeds this little flock : A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday's task As much as God or man can fairly ask; The rest he gives to loves and labours light, To fields the morning, and to feasts the night; None better...