Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal EnlargedRalph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths R. Griffiths., 1802 Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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... reason for which it had been rejected , was given to the author of this history by Lord Milton . ' Britain declared war against Spain on the 23d of October , in the year 1739. ' man man of war , Charles landed on the island of 4 Home's ...
... reason for which it had been rejected , was given to the author of this history by Lord Milton . ' Britain declared war against Spain on the 23d of October , in the year 1739. ' man man of war , Charles landed on the island of 4 Home's ...
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... reasons for declining to join him , which admit of no reply . Brother , said Fassefern , I know you better than you know yourself . If this Prince once sets his eyes upon you , he will make you do whatever he pleases . Fassefern , in ...
... reasons for declining to join him , which admit of no reply . Brother , said Fassefern , I know you better than you know yourself . If this Prince once sets his eyes upon you , he will make you do whatever he pleases . Fassefern , in ...
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... reason and his opinion of this . He was much surprised at my ignorance about the matter , and informed me , that these grasshoppers were stuck up by a small bird of prey , which the Germans callced Neun - toedter ( in Eng . lish , Nine ...
... reason and his opinion of this . He was much surprised at my ignorance about the matter , and informed me , that these grasshoppers were stuck up by a small bird of prey , which the Germans callced Neun - toedter ( in Eng . lish , Nine ...
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... reason , it is sometimes called the thorn - sticker . " by the above account , we see that it is known in Europe that this same species of birds actually does stick up insects of different kinds on thorns , & c . but it is supposed they ...
... reason , it is sometimes called the thorn - sticker . " by the above account , we see that it is known in Europe that this same species of birds actually does stick up insects of different kinds on thorns , & c . but it is supposed they ...
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... reasons of the suspension of its cash payments . These , he maintains , were neither a too great issue of paper nor too great loans . On this subject , he observes that , • The • The Bank of England is quite independent of the Thornton ...
... reasons of the suspension of its cash payments . These , he maintains , were neither a too great issue of paper nor too great loans . On this subject , he observes that , • The • The Bank of England is quite independent of the Thornton ...
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Seite 498 - Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and trick: He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what came, And the puff of a dunce he mistook it for fame, Till, his relish grown callous, almost to disease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
Seite 100 - BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth...
Seite 11 - ... were levelled with earth and gravel. There were betwixt the trees, growing naturally on their own roots, some stakes fixed in the earth, which, with the trees, were interwoven with ropes, made of heath and birch twigs...
Seite 148 - And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
Seite 133 - Strutt's Sports and Pastimes of the People of England; including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time.
Seite 29 - So spake our mother Eve, and Adam heard Well pleased, but answered not; for now too nigh The Archangel stood, and from the other hill To their fixed station, all in bright array The cherubim descended; on the ground Gliding meteorous, as evening mist Risen from a river o'er the marish* glides, And gathers ground fast at the labourer's heel Homeward returning. High in front advanced, The...
Seite 444 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Seite 49 - Clarissa, on which I peremptorily declined offering another criticism on the performance. The name and subject of the tragedy have unfortunately escaped my memory, neither do I recollect with exactness how much he had written, though I am inclined to believe that he had not completed the third act ; I never heard whether he afterwards finished it. In this visit I remember his relating a strange Quixotic scheme he had in contemplation of going to decipher the inscriptions on the written...
Seite 237 - But now the great map of mankind is unrolled at once, and there is no state or gradation of barbarism, and no mode of refinement, which we have not at the same moment under our view...
Seite 48 - And now, dear mother, he concluded, after ' having struggled so hard to come home to you, I wonder you are not more rejoiced to see me. — She and all present expressed their joy at his return, and enjoined him to transmit the most early and grateful acknowledgments to his kind benefactor.