The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Band 49R. Griffiths, 1774 |
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... first region furrounds the foot of the mountain , and forms , on all fides of it , the molt fertile country in the world , to the height of about fifteen miles , where the woody region begins . It is compofed almost entirely of lava ...
... first region furrounds the foot of the mountain , and forms , on all fides of it , the molt fertile country in the world , to the height of about fifteen miles , where the woody region begins . It is compofed almost entirely of lava ...
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... first it only fends forth a thick noke and showers of athes that lay wafte the adjacent country : these are foon followed by red hot ftones , and rocks of a great fize , thrown to an immenfe height in the air . The fall of thefe ftones ...
... first it only fends forth a thick noke and showers of athes that lay wafte the adjacent country : these are foon followed by red hot ftones , and rocks of a great fize , thrown to an immenfe height in the air . The fall of thefe ftones ...
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... first erection * , excellent affylums to artizans and traders to fly to , and fecure themselves from the arbitrary laims of our antient feudal lords in the work now offered to the public , he says , the happy progrefs and influence of ...
... first erection * , excellent affylums to artizans and traders to fly to , and fecure themselves from the arbitrary laims of our antient feudal lords in the work now offered to the public , he says , the happy progrefs and influence of ...
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... first to her own treacherous fervants , and afterward to rude northern invaders . In London we fee individuals wealthy , because they are in- duftrious ; the conveniences of polifhed fociety being enjoyed , in fome degree by all ranks ...
... first to her own treacherous fervants , and afterward to rude northern invaders . In London we fee individuals wealthy , because they are in- duftrious ; the conveniences of polifhed fociety being enjoyed , in fome degree by all ranks ...
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... first perhaps of that nature , I would applaud myself for having fupported on the ftage of life , the fimple character of a man and an author . ' The foregoing paffage is not well tranflated ; but a man of real humanity and public ...
... first perhaps of that nature , I would applaud myself for having fupported on the ftage of life , the fimple character of a man and an author . ' The foregoing paffage is not well tranflated ; but a man of real humanity and public ...
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Seite 13 - I have writ nothing in this that will displease Your Majesty. If I have, I humbly beg of you to consider it as coming from a woman amazed with grief; and that you will pardon the daughter of a person who served Your Majesty's father in his greatest...
Seite 80 - It is not smooth and even like the greatest part of the latter ; but is finely variegated by an infinite number of those beautiful little mountains that have been formed by the different eruptions of JEtna.
Seite 380 - ... before he could be disgusted with fatigue, or disabled by infirmity, he made no collection of his works, nor desired to rescue those that...
Seite 433 - ... fiery and irregular in all his motions. His name was Genius. He darted like an eagle up the mountain, and left his companions gazing after him with envy and admiration ; but his progress was unequal, and interrupted by a thousand caprices. When Pleasure warbled in the valley, he mingled in her train.
Seite 385 - Religion, and the strange confusions following from thence : in the Reigns of King Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary, and Elizabeth,
Seite 186 - Braves the broad ocean, and refigns to fate ; Scarce well arriv'd, and lab'ring to procure Life's free fubfiftence, and retreats fecure, Sudden! he fees the roving INDIAN nigh, Fate in his hand, and ruin in his eye — Scar'd at the fight, he runs, he bounds, he flies, Till arrow-pierc'd...
Seite 77 - The evils of this life appear like rocks and precipices, rugged and barren at a distance ; but at our nearer approach we find little fruitful spots, and refreshing springs, mixed with the harshness and deformities of nature.
Seite 257 - The same operation was also performed on the first lieutenant and the purser, but upon none of those who appeared to be in health. While this was doing, our surgeon, who had walked till he was very warm, took off his wig to cool and refresh himself...
Seite 421 - ... the time of the day when the sun shone out, by the boundary where the half of the globe at any time enlightened by the sun was parted from the other half in the shade ; the enlightened parts of the terrestrial globe answering to the like enlightened parts of the earth at all times. So that, whenever the sun shone on the globe, one might see to what places the sun was then rising, to what places it was setting, and all the places where it was then day or night, throughout the earth.
Seite 380 - ... profit. When his plays had been acted his hope was at an end; he solicited no addition of honour from the reader.