The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ...J. Dodsley, 1793 |
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... Sometimes , however , it is made ftill thinner , by beating it . with the finest fide of the mallet , after it has been feveral times dou bled : it is then called Hoboo , and is almoft as thin as a muflin ; it becomes very white by ...
... Sometimes , however , it is made ftill thinner , by beating it . with the finest fide of the mallet , after it has been feveral times dou bled : it is then called Hoboo , and is almoft as thin as a muflin ; it becomes very white by ...
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wrung or fqueezed ; and sometimes feveral pieces of it are laid one upon another , and beaten together with the coarseft fide of the mallet , and they are then equal in thick- nefs to broad - cloth , and much more foft and agreeable to ...
wrung or fqueezed ; and sometimes feveral pieces of it are laid one upon another , and beaten together with the coarseft fide of the mallet , and they are then equal in thick- nefs to broad - cloth , and much more foft and agreeable to ...
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... sometimes a stick of wood ; and to thefe receptacles of finery they generally applied the nails which we gave them , and every thing which it was poffible they could contain . The women fometimes thruft through them the down of the ...
... sometimes a stick of wood ; and to thefe receptacles of finery they generally applied the nails which we gave them , and every thing which it was poffible they could contain . The women fometimes thruft through them the down of the ...
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... sometimes up- on them , by fquare figures of white wampum : and in alliances , human figures holding a chain , which s their emblem of friendship , and each figure reprefents a nation . An axe is alfo fometimes described , and always ...
... sometimes up- on them , by fquare figures of white wampum : and in alliances , human figures holding a chain , which s their emblem of friendship , and each figure reprefents a nation . An axe is alfo fometimes described , and always ...
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... sometimes even indecent fubjects . Partly of this fort is the great door at Barfreston Church in Kent . The idea of these artifts feems to have been , that the greater num- + ber borne teftimony of it ; but not the leaft traces ...
... sometimes even indecent fubjects . Partly of this fort is the great door at Barfreston Church in Kent . The idea of these artifts feems to have been , that the greater num- + ber borne teftimony of it ; but not the leaft traces ...
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Seite 6 - ... spontaneously; but if a man plants ten of them in his lifetime, which he may do in about an hour, he will as completely fulfil his duty to his own and future generations, as the native of our less temperate climate can do by ploughing in the cold of winter, and reaping in the summer's heat, as often as these seasons return...
Seite 95 - Dr Solander, who had more than once crossed the mountains which divide Sweden from Norway, well knew that extreme cold, especially when joined with fatigue, produces a torpor and sleepiness that are almost irresistible: He therefore conjured the company to keep moving, whatever pain it might cost them, and whatever relief they might be promised by an inclination to rest: Whoever sits down...
Seite 242 - I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good ; But sure I think, that I can drink With him that wears a hood : Though I go bare, take ye no care ; I nothing am a-cold : I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old.
Seite 162 - To the question therefore, which ought to hold the first rank, Raffaelle or Michael Angelo, it must be answered, that if it is to be given to him who possessed a greater combination of the higher qualities of the art than any other man, there is no doubt but Raffaelle is the first. But if...
Seite 143 - This fort of arch is to be found in every one of cardinal Wolfey's buildings; alfo at Weft Sheen; an ancient brick gate at Mile End, called King John's Gate ; and in the great gate of the palace of Lambeth. From this time Gothic architecture began to decline, and was...
Seite 27 - ... people made an overture to any of their young women, he was given to understand that the consent of her friends was necessary, and by the influence of a proper present it was generally obtained; but when these preliminaries were settled, it was also necessary to treat the wife for a night with the same delicacy that is here required by the wife for life, and the lover who presumed to take any liberties by which this was violated, was sure to be disappointed.
Seite 11 - ... finger of the left hand and the middle finger of the right. The drum is made of a hollow block of wood, of a cylindrical form...
Seite 46 - It is well known, that to run a muck, in the original sense of the word, is to get intoxicated with opium, and then rush into the street with a drawn weapon, and kill whoever comes in the way, till the party is himself either killed or taken prisoner ; of this several instances...
Seite 144 - You shall have sometimes fair houses so full of glass that one cannot tell where to become to be out of the sun or cold.
Seite 96 - ... who had been left behind, they would be able to bring Richmond, even though it should still be found impossible to wake him.