The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 23Philological Society of London, 1793 - English literature |
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... called cut , " Pray , Mr. Wood , what horfe fhall I ride to - morrow ? " Wood , ftartled at the queftion , replied , " Upon my word , Sire , I don't know ; perhaps the peo- ple about the Mews can inform your Majesty . " — " Aye , aye ...
... called cut , " Pray , Mr. Wood , what horfe fhall I ride to - morrow ? " Wood , ftartled at the queftion , replied , " Upon my word , Sire , I don't know ; perhaps the peo- ple about the Mews can inform your Majesty . " — " Aye , aye ...
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... called a man of fu- perior tafte ! He hath reached the fource of pure , innocent , and fublime pleasure . All nature is obedient to his power ; art lays before him her productions , which , while they increase his pleasures , add to his ...
... called a man of fu- perior tafte ! He hath reached the fource of pure , innocent , and fublime pleasure . All nature is obedient to his power ; art lays before him her productions , which , while they increase his pleasures , add to his ...
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... called to the Bar ) he prefided in the most dif- tinguished manner , yet , from his love of faction and political intrigue , he was obliged to fly from his country , and re- tire to Holland , where he died in great obfcurity and ...
... called to the Bar ) he prefided in the most dif- tinguished manner , yet , from his love of faction and political intrigue , he was obliged to fly from his country , and re- tire to Holland , where he died in great obfcurity and ...
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... called An EJay on Projects , from which , perhaps , I might receive fome impreffions that have fince influenced the principal events of my life . " My inclination for books at last de- termined my father to make me a prin- ter ...
... called An EJay on Projects , from which , perhaps , I might receive fome impreffions that have fince influenced the principal events of my life . " My inclination for books at last de- termined my father to make me a prin- ter ...
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... called to supper ; afterwards I went to bed at an early hour , and flept foundly till morning . " Among many other curious traits , the Dottor mentions a fcheme which he and an acquaintance , of the name of Keymer , once had of ...
... called to supper ; afterwards I went to bed at an early hour , and flept foundly till morning . " Among many other curious traits , the Dottor mentions a fcheme which he and an acquaintance , of the name of Keymer , once had of ...
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Page 177 - Remember that credit is money. If a man lets his money lie in my hands after it is due, he gives me the interest, or so much as I can make of it during that time. This amounts to a considerable sum where a man has good and large credit, and makes good use of it.
Page 178 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit, are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a- creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day ; demands it before he can receive it in a lump.
Page 353 - It consisted only of six rooms, four of them in the form of friars' cells, with naked walls ; the other two, each twenty feet square, were hung with brown cloth and furnished in the most simple manner.
Page 355 - The service for the dead was chanted, and Charles joined in the prayers which were offered up for the...
Page 177 - Remember that money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes an hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown destroys all that it might have produced, even...
Page 353 - He buried there, in solitude and silence, his grandeur, his ambition, together with all those vast projects which, during half a century, had alarmed and agitated Europe ; filling every kingdom in it, by turns, with the terror of his arms, and the dread of being subjected to his power.
Page 261 - ... its merits before he would engage in it; by this caution, added to the clearness of his description, and the integrity of his heart, he seldom failed having the bill he supported carried into an act of parliament.
Page 417 - ... critical nicety of form, which any other defendant could claim under the like objection. The only effect I feel...
Page 177 - This amounts to a considerable sum where a man has good and large credit, and makes good use of it. Remember that money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on.
Page 69 - Europe, established by solemn treaties and guaranteed by the consent of all the powers. This government, adhering to the maxims which it has followed for more than a century, will also never see with indifference that France shall make herself, either directly or indirectly, sovereign of the Low Countries, or general arbitress of the rights and liberties of Europe.