An impartial history of the town and county of Newcastle upon Tyne [by J. Baillie]. |
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... these grand efforts of genius , held up by the hand of his- tory , a noble ambition is kindled ; and the philosopher , the statesman , the warrior , and the artist , are filled with a generous ardour , if not to emulate , at least to ...
... these grand efforts of genius , held up by the hand of his- tory , a noble ambition is kindled ; and the philosopher , the statesman , the warrior , and the artist , are filled with a generous ardour , if not to emulate , at least to ...
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... these extremes , either of ob- scure , uninforming brevity , or minute , tedi- ous , and unimportant details . How justly the latter of these gentlemen merited the censure of the learned Reviewers , on account of this historical defect ...
... these extremes , either of ob- scure , uninforming brevity , or minute , tedi- ous , and unimportant details . How justly the latter of these gentlemen merited the censure of the learned Reviewers , on account of this historical defect ...
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... these fierce barbarians more to his difcipline and arms , than to any fuperiority in point of courage and refolution . Cæfar , finding his legions thinned . with fo many bloody engagements with Germans , Gauls , and Britons , fired with ...
... these fierce barbarians more to his difcipline and arms , than to any fuperiority in point of courage and refolution . Cæfar , finding his legions thinned . with fo many bloody engagements with Germans , Gauls , and Britons , fired with ...
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... these , and to condenfe their ftrength , the emperor Adrian , first in the year 120 , and af- terwards Severus , A. D. 207. raised their feparate walls , along the fame tract of country , running from ftation to station , till an ...
... these , and to condenfe their ftrength , the emperor Adrian , first in the year 120 , and af- terwards Severus , A. D. 207. raised their feparate walls , along the fame tract of country , running from ftation to station , till an ...
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... about thirty yards , and once more gallop off . These circuitous motions are repeated , till they come within a few yards , when the specta- tors tors think it highly prudent ro decamp , and to 18 Impartial History of.
... about thirty yards , and once more gallop off . These circuitous motions are repeated , till they come within a few yards , when the specta- tors tors think it highly prudent ro decamp , and to 18 Impartial History of.
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Seite 223 - am always ferious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature, in her deep and folemn fcenes, with the fame pleafure as in her molt gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myfelf with thofe objects which others confider with terror.— When
Seite 294 - be naked and deftitute of daily food, and one of you fay unto them, depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled ; notwithstanding ye give them not thofe things which are needful to the
Seite 76 - to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, To pour the frefli inftruftion o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The
Seite 442 - gentlemen have upon great hope of benefit come into this country to hazard their monies in coale-pits.—Mafter Beaumont, a gentleman of great ingenuity and rare parts, adventured into our mines with his thirty thoufand pounds; who brought with him many rare engines not known then in thefe parts; as the art to boore with iron rodds, to try the
Seite 223 - look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every immoderate
Seite 17 - and it carries our reflections forward to the confummation of all things, as defcribed by the unrivalled Shakefpeare. " The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The folemn temples, the great globe itfelf, Yea, all that it inherit, (hall diffolve ! And, like the bafelefs fabric of a vifion, Leave not a
Seite 305 - peculiar grace, To fee kind hands attending day and night, With tender miniftry from place to place ; Some prop the head ; fome from the pallid face Wipe off the faint cold dews weak nature Iheds ; Some reach the healing draught; the whilft, to chace
Seite 10 - at the diftance of forty or fifty yards, looking wildly at the object of their furprife; and, upon the leaft motion being made, they all turn round again, and gallop off with equal fpeed, but not to the fame diftance ; forming a fliorter circle, and again returning with a bolder and more threatening
Seite 508 - with fome peculiar advantages, which, though fingly of little importance, would by conjunction and concurrence open new inlets to knowledge, and give new powers to diligence." Having thus given a general detail of the various branches of trade, peculiar to this commercial town, we
Seite 441 - Many thoufand people are imployed in this trade of coales : many live by working of them in the pits: many live by conveying them in waggons and waines to the river Tyne : many men are employed in conveying the coales in keeles from the (lathes aboard the