The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Volume 9J. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1789 - Books and bookselling |
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... these few Books , one may acquire a more per- fect knowledge of it in three or four Years , than he could do in Ten Years with the perufal of all the other Books of Law . And in regaird that fo great a Work , which fhall be finished in ...
... these few Books , one may acquire a more per- fect knowledge of it in three or four Years , than he could do in Ten Years with the perufal of all the other Books of Law . And in regaird that fo great a Work , which fhall be finished in ...
Page 78
... these fingular habitations , and like a chimney - sweep- er came out at the top ; and though it coft me not a little trouble in turning and climbing up fo high , I had no idea I had mounted fo much , till on look- ing about me I turned ...
... these fingular habitations , and like a chimney - sweep- er came out at the top ; and though it coft me not a little trouble in turning and climbing up fo high , I had no idea I had mounted fo much , till on look- ing about me I turned ...
Page 80
... these I defcry cares , and difappointments , and disquiets . P. And why don't you rather en- deavour to discover its pleasures and its charms ? Think of thofe little prat- tlers that are to be the pledges of your love.- M. Alas ! they ...
... these I defcry cares , and difappointments , and disquiets . P. And why don't you rather en- deavour to discover its pleasures and its charms ? Think of thofe little prat- tlers that are to be the pledges of your love.- M. Alas ! they ...
Page 86
... these fpots are befprinkled with small black fpecks ; and those which are upon the back often touch , without interruption , and form two long yellow bands . From the figure of these spots , the fa- lamander has got the name of the fiel ...
... these fpots are befprinkled with small black fpecks ; and those which are upon the back often touch , without interruption , and form two long yellow bands . From the figure of these spots , the fa- lamander has got the name of the fiel ...
Page 88
... these animals re ceived the leaft injury , Mr De Mau- pertuis afterwards made a dog and a a turkey fwallow falamanders whole , or cut into pieces , and yet neither of them appeared to be fenfible of the least uneafinefs . Mr Laurenti ...
... these animals re ceived the leaft injury , Mr De Mau- pertuis afterwards made a dog and a a turkey fwallow falamanders whole , or cut into pieces , and yet neither of them appeared to be fenfible of the least uneafinefs . Mr Laurenti ...
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Page 316 - O, that the slave had forty thousand lives ! One is too poor, too weak for my revenge. Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, lago ; All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven : 'Tis gone. Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell ! Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne To tyrannous hate ! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, For 'tis of aspics
Page 316 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Page 384 - It is about a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in breadth, but contracts at both ends.
Page 112 - I might remain in conversation with him near five hours; and though I was now grown faint from the constant fatigue I had undergone, and having not yet broken my fast, yet this had not so much effect upon me as the anxiety I was under for a particular friend, with whom I was to have dined that day, and who, lodging at the top of a very high house in the heart of the city, and being a stranger to the language, could not but be in the utmost danger; my concern, therefore, for his preservation, made...
Page 316 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontick sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontick, and the Hellespont; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond' marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow [Kneels.
Page 191 - It is difficult to -fay, whether the active and ufeful part he . took in the conteft, arofe from perfonal refentment againft the king of Great Britain, or from a regard to the liberties of America. It is certain he reprobated the French alliance and republican forms of government, after he retired from the American fervice.
Page 111 - I had not been long in the area of St. Paul's, when I felt the third shock, which though somewhat less violent than the two former, the sea rushed in again, and retired with the same rapidity, and I remained up to my knees in water, though I had gotten upon a small eminence at some distance from the river, with the ruins of several intervening houses to break its force. At this time I took notice the waters retired so impetuously, that some vessels were left quite dry, which rode in seven...
Page 299 - House is dry enough to burn, it serves them for fuel, and they remove to another. The Habit of the People is very different, according to the qualities or the places they live in, as Low-land or High-land Men. The Low-land Gentry go well enough habited, but the poorer sort go (almost) naked, only an old Cloak, or a part of their Bed-cloaths thrown over them.
Page 392 - Theobald's houfe is now very hot, and hath but few change of rooms, both inconvenient for a fick body : then my lord of Warwick tells me, that, by experience, he hath found Newhall air as good a one to ride away an ague, as...
Page 111 - Lisbon would now meet the same fate which a few years before had befallen the city of Lima ; and no doubt had this place lain open to the sea, and the force of the waves not been somewhat broken by the winding of the bay, the lower parts of it at least would have been totally destroyed. The master of a vessel, which arrived here just after the 1st of November, assured me, that?