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... French and Spanish novelists , which constituted a new era in works of fiction , and opened a delightful field of incident and narrative , which could not but be turned to account ; these novels were all translated into English and ...
... French and Spanish novelists , which constituted a new era in works of fiction , and opened a delightful field of incident and narrative , which could not but be turned to account ; these novels were all translated into English and ...
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... French writer be acknowledged as his inferior , since his delineations , though done with inimitable skill and knowledge of his subject and of human character , are almost en- tirely confined to the follies of his own day - now ...
... French writer be acknowledged as his inferior , since his delineations , though done with inimitable skill and knowledge of his subject and of human character , are almost en- tirely confined to the follies of his own day - now ...
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... French literature has been enriched with an elaborate treatise , De la Charlatanerie des Savans . The bibliopolist , -a Murray or a Colburn , adds his charlatanerie to that of the learned dia- logist , and together they give to the ...
... French literature has been enriched with an elaborate treatise , De la Charlatanerie des Savans . The bibliopolist , -a Murray or a Colburn , adds his charlatanerie to that of the learned dia- logist , and together they give to the ...
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... French are said to manufacture about as much cotton now , as was manufactured in this country fourteen years ago . We now send abroad the thread , where we used at that time to export the ma- nufactured article . The Americans also are ...
... French are said to manufacture about as much cotton now , as was manufactured in this country fourteen years ago . We now send abroad the thread , where we used at that time to export the ma- nufactured article . The Americans also are ...
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... French gres rouge , and gres de Vosges ; and the upper , consisting of marle and varie- gated sandstone , in which beds of rock - salt and gypsum occur ; this corresponds with the gres bigarré . " Mr. Bakewell supposes that this ...
... French gres rouge , and gres de Vosges ; and the upper , consisting of marle and varie- gated sandstone , in which beds of rock - salt and gypsum occur ; this corresponds with the gres bigarré . " Mr. Bakewell supposes that this ...
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Seite 267 - That all the lands within the territory so ceded to the United States, and not reserved for or appropriated to any of the before-mentioned purposes, or disposed of in bounties to the officers and soldiers of the American Army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit...
Seite 267 - American army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become members of the confederation or federal alliance of the said states, Virginia inclusive, according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure, and shall be faithfully and bona fide disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever.
Seite 62 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Seite 500 - Mason, a man of the first order of wisdom among those who acted on the theatre of the revolution, of expansive mind, profound judgment, cogent in argument, learned in the lore of our former constitution, and earnest for the republican change on democratic principles.
Seite 508 - I should have shut up the Queen in a Convent, putting harm out of her power, and placed the king in his station, investing him with limited powers, which I verily believe he would have honestly exercised, according to the measure of his understanding.
Seite 49 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Seite 494 - It appearing, in the course of these debates, that the colonies of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and South Carolina were not yet matured for falling from the parent stem ; but that they were fast advancing to that state...
Seite 500 - Virginia which followed, he sustained the new constitution in all its parts, bearing off the palm against the logic of George Mason, and the fervid declamation of Mr. Henry. With these consummate powers, were united a pure and spotless virtue, which no calumny has ever attempted to sully. Of the powers and polish of his pen, and of the wisdom of his administration in the highest office of the nation, I need say nothing. They have spoken, and will forever speak for themselves.
Seite 40 - Shakespeare had no such advantage; he came to London a needy adventurer and lived for a time by very mean employments. Many works of genius and learning have been performed in states of life that appear very little favourable to thought or to...
Seite 509 - The torpitude of digestion a little passed, she flutters half an hour through the streets, by way of paying visits, and then to the spectacles. These finished, another half hour is devoted to dodging out of the doors of her very sincere friends, and away to supper.