The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 99Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1829 - English essays |
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... contains a Catalogue of Cathedrals , a brief Martyrology , with Querela Cantabrigiensis , Mercurius Belgicus , or ... containing representations of battles and events in the Civil War . I wish , therefore , to ascertain if this be a ...
... contains a Catalogue of Cathedrals , a brief Martyrology , with Querela Cantabrigiensis , Mercurius Belgicus , or ... containing representations of battles and events in the Civil War . I wish , therefore , to ascertain if this be a ...
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... containing several quarts of the most explosive mixture of gas from the distillation of coal and air ; the flame of the wick immediately dis- appeared , or rather was lost , for the whole of the interior of the cylinder became filled ...
... containing several quarts of the most explosive mixture of gas from the distillation of coal and air ; the flame of the wick immediately dis- appeared , or rather was lost , for the whole of the interior of the cylinder became filled ...
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... containing water , and to the middle basin some neutral salt was added . The three were connected by moistened syphons of asbestos : the op- posite piles of a Voltaic battery were then applied to the extreme vessels ; and in a short ...
... containing water , and to the middle basin some neutral salt was added . The three were connected by moistened syphons of asbestos : the op- posite piles of a Voltaic battery were then applied to the extreme vessels ; and in a short ...
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... containing from 800 to 1,000 persons , was crowded with students and their friends , who took a lively interest in the ... contains a very fine collection of works relative to the history of the metropolis , and of the progress of so ...
... containing from 800 to 1,000 persons , was crowded with students and their friends , who took a lively interest in the ... contains a very fine collection of works relative to the history of the metropolis , and of the progress of so ...
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... containing so many curious details relative to the inven- tion of painting , brought , after great com- petition , 315. It is a volume of great splendour and magnitude . Luther's copy of his last edition of the German Bible , printed in ...
... containing so many curious details relative to the inven- tion of painting , brought , after great com- petition , 315. It is a volume of great splendour and magnitude . Luther's copy of his last edition of the German Bible , printed in ...
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Page 401 - And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying...
Page 367 - And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, Which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
Page 110 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Page 16 - Six Discourses delivered before the Royal Society, at their Anniversary Meetings, on the Award of the Royal and Copley Medals ; preceded by an Address to the Society, delivered in 1800, on the Progress and Prospects of Science.
Page 100 - PEDIGREES OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY OF HERTFORDSHIRE. By William Berry, late, and for fifteen years, Registering Clerk in the College of Arms, author of the " Encyclopaedia Heraldica,
Page 300 - Dolomieu, — That, if there is any circumstance thoroughly established in geology, it is, that the crust of our globe has been subjected to a great and sudden revolution, the epoch of which cannot be dated much farther back than five or six thousand years ago ; that this revolution had buried all the countries which were before inhabited by men and by the other animals that are now best known...
Page 111 - Good God ! how sweet are all things here ! How beautiful the fields appear ! How cleanly do we feed and lie ! Lord ! what good hours do we keep ! How quietly we sleep ! What peace, what unanimity ! How innocent from the lewd fashion, Is all our business, all our recreation...
Page 403 - tis a base Abandonment of reason to resign Our right of thought — our last and only place Of refuge...
Page 54 - The portraits of Reynolds are equally numerous and excellent, and all who have written of their merits have swelled their eulogiums by comparing them with the simplicity of Titian, the vigour of Rembrandt, and the elegance and delicacy of Vandyke. Certainly, in character and expression, and in manly ease, he has never been surpassed. He is always equal — always natural — graceful — unaffected. His boldness of posture and his singular freedom of colouring are so supported by all the grace of...
Page 57 - Thomson, Richard. An Historical Essay on the Magna Charta of King John: to which are added, the Great Charter in Latin and English, the charters of liberties and confirmations, granted by Henry III and Edward I, the original Charter of the forests, and various authentic instruments connected with them: Explanatory...