The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on Subjects of Literature, Science, and Morals; Biographical and Historical Sketches; Critical Remarks on Language; with Occasional Reviews ..., כרך 2W. Hilliard., 1806 |
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עמוד 1
... effect . On the contrary the more depredations were committed , and the less booty was to be obtained , the more outrageous was the conduct of the invaders . The fields lying uncultivated , it became necessary to substitute animal food ...
... effect . On the contrary the more depredations were committed , and the less booty was to be obtained , the more outrageous was the conduct of the invaders . The fields lying uncultivated , it became necessary to substitute animal food ...
עמוד 2
... effect on society , and the changes , wrought in the face of the world , has deservedly occupied the attention of philosophers more , than any other event in the compass of history . While authentic records have pre- served the ...
... effect on society , and the changes , wrought in the face of the world , has deservedly occupied the attention of philosophers more , than any other event in the compass of history . While authentic records have pre- served the ...
עמוד 4
... effect by its impulse . Some of them have been so near the planet , Jupiter , as to produce a sensible deflection of their path , yet so small was their quantity of matter , as to pro- duce no sensible effect on Jupiter's satellites ...
... effect by its impulse . Some of them have been so near the planet , Jupiter , as to produce a sensible deflection of their path , yet so small was their quantity of matter , as to pro- duce no sensible effect on Jupiter's satellites ...
עמוד 13
... effect is not clumsy . The area of the city is now a cultivated wheat field ; and the ground is thickly strewed with morsels of tiles , & c . It is not a little extra- ordinary , that these ruins should have remained so long ...
... effect is not clumsy . The area of the city is now a cultivated wheat field ; and the ground is thickly strewed with morsels of tiles , & c . It is not a little extra- ordinary , that these ruins should have remained so long ...
עמוד 26
... effect on society , would be neglected by none . But negligence is almost characteristic of scholars , and negligence is the parent of ill manners . Hence we sometimes see ac- tions in the parlor , that would disgrace the kitchen mere ...
... effect on society , would be neglected by none . But negligence is almost characteristic of scholars , and negligence is the parent of ill manners . Hence we sometimes see ac- tions in the parlor , that would disgrace the kitchen mere ...
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עמוד 89 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
עמוד 9 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
עמוד 89 - WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? WHAT constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride, Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No, — men, high-minded men...
עמוד 241 - English : and have endeavoured to make him speak that kind of English which he would have spoken had he lived in England, and had written to this age.
עמוד 91 - This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety. Glad then, as miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour...
עמוד 76 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
עמוד 9 - And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
עמוד 90 - O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend discretion like a vapor sinks ; And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks.
עמוד 8 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
עמוד 91 - Nature, it seemed, ashamed of her mistake, Would throw their land away at duck and drake, Therefore necessity, that first made kings, Something like government among them brings. For, as with...