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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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 67
עמוד 8
... given us the history of this catastrophe , with the principal circumstances of its beginning , augmentation , decrease , and the means , used for preserving mankind and other land animals . This account is to be received , as verity ...
... given us the history of this catastrophe , with the principal circumstances of its beginning , augmentation , decrease , and the means , used for preserving mankind and other land animals . This account is to be received , as verity ...
עמוד 15
... given to a number of cities . Something then must be said about all these cities ; another incursion into the fields of ancient geography . Herculane- This palace , one of the most magnificent in Europe , is not , and proba- bly never ...
... given to a number of cities . Something then must be said about all these cities ; another incursion into the fields of ancient geography . Herculane- This palace , one of the most magnificent in Europe , is not , and proba- bly never ...
עמוד 20
... given a more per- fect , historic poem . The brilliant exploits of Cæsar and Pompey would have been less frequently interrupted by a confusion of extraneous character and unconnected inci- dents . There have been two translations of ...
... given a more per- fect , historic poem . The brilliant exploits of Cæsar and Pompey would have been less frequently interrupted by a confusion of extraneous character and unconnected inci- dents . There have been two translations of ...
עמוד 22
... given a paraphrase of less than five lines in twelve . But he has succeeded so much to our satisfaction , that we are unwilling to use the language of complaint . Cato often appears in Lucan , both in description of char- acter , and ...
... given a paraphrase of less than five lines in twelve . But he has succeeded so much to our satisfaction , that we are unwilling to use the language of complaint . Cato often appears in Lucan , both in description of char- acter , and ...
עמוד 37
... given ; and , in order more effectually to promulgate it , over the principal door , which leads to the court yard of the house of industry , was written in large letters of gold on a black ground , " NO " ALMS WILL BE RECEIVED HERE ...
... given ; and , in order more effectually to promulgate it , over the principal door , which leads to the court yard of the house of industry , was written in large letters of gold on a black ground , " NO " ALMS WILL BE RECEIVED HERE ...
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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...