The Scots Magazine, Volum 44Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1782 |
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... means , whether in point of honour or effect , antwer the purposes for which it was undertaken ; and the profpects of changing its nature were confined indeed . However numerous or cogent the caufes and motives we have afligned , or ...
... means , whether in point of honour or effect , antwer the purposes for which it was undertaken ; and the profpects of changing its nature were confined indeed . However numerous or cogent the caufes and motives we have afligned , or ...
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... means and opportunities to gráfp at every part of the whole manor . It is not then to be doubted , that the Porte ufed every poffible evasion to avoid a compliance with , and threw every ob- ftacle in the way which could tend to render ...
... means and opportunities to gráfp at every part of the whole manor . It is not then to be doubted , that the Porte ufed every poffible evasion to avoid a compliance with , and threw every ob- ftacle in the way which could tend to render ...
Side 12
... means inapplicable to the great object of the inquiry . The in- ftructions given to Sir Charles Hardy , to prevent a junction of the French and Spanish fleets , had not been laid before the Houfe ; and he had fubmitted to it , though he ...
... means inapplicable to the great object of the inquiry . The in- ftructions given to Sir Charles Hardy , to prevent a junction of the French and Spanish fleets , had not been laid before the Houfe ; and he had fubmitted to it , though he ...
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... means the Shrewsbury had been built and launched in fourteen months . A builder at Briftol had built with great dispatch a ship of 50 guns , and was pro- mifed a contract for another of 64 guns ; but when the former was completed , he ...
... means the Shrewsbury had been built and launched in fourteen months . A builder at Briftol had built with great dispatch a ship of 50 guns , and was pro- mifed a contract for another of 64 guns ; but when the former was completed , he ...
Side 30
... means to land the men . At length we discovered a lefs dangerous place of debarkation , where , in the course of the night , we fucceeded in landing a great part of the troops from the boats , and the floop l'Aigle . The frigates were ...
... means to land the men . At length we discovered a lefs dangerous place of debarkation , where , in the course of the night , we fucceeded in landing a great part of the troops from the boats , and the floop l'Aigle . The frigates were ...
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Side 172 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Side 63 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet...
Side 64 - They are, I think, improved in general ; yet I know not whether they have not lost part of what Temple calls their " race ;" a word which, applied to wines in its primitive sense, means the flavour of the soil. " Liberty," when it first appeared, I tried to read, and soon desisted.
Side 187 - That a claim of any body of men, other than the king, lords, and commons of Ireland to make laws to bind this kingdom, is unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance.
Side 389 - The Judgment of this Court is, and the Court doth award, That you be led back to the place from whence you came, and from thence to be drawn upon a hurdle to the place of execution, and there you...
Side 303 - Having routed professed art, for the modern gardener exerts his talents to conceal his art, Kent, like other reformers, knew not how to stop at the just limits.
Side 301 - No. 173, he banished verdant sculpture, and did not even revert to the square precision of the foregoing age. He enlarged his plans, disdained to make every division tally to its opposite, and though he still adhered much to straight walks with high clipped hedges, they were only his great lines; the rest he diversified by wilderness, and with loose groves of oak, though still within surrounding hedges.
Side 301 - As his reformation gained footing, he ventured farther, and in the royal garden at Richmond dared to introduce cultivated fields, and even morsels of a forest appearance, by the sides of those endless and tiresome walks, that stretched out of one into another without intermission.
Side 169 - Matters, we may well believe, remained long in this situation; and though the generality of mankind form their ideas from the import of words in their own age, we have no reason to think that for many centuries the term garden implied more than a kitchen-garden or orchard.
Side 302 - The sunk fence ascertained the specific garden, but that it might not draw too obvious a line of distinction between the neat and the rude, the contiguous outlying parts came to be included in a kind of general...