Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volum 99Pub. for J. Hinton., 1796 |
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... study the climate under which he lives , and to accommodate himself to all its viciffitudes , as much as poffible . Every nation has fomething peculiar in its climate , which feems to impart to the inhabitants a certain quality that is ...
... study the climate under which he lives , and to accommodate himself to all its viciffitudes , as much as poffible . Every nation has fomething peculiar in its climate , which feems to impart to the inhabitants a certain quality that is ...
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... study the capital works of ancient and modern art . Six weeks were borrowed for my tour of Naples , the most populous of cities , relative to its fize , whofe luxurious inhabitants feem to dwell on the con- fines of paradife and hell ...
... study the capital works of ancient and modern art . Six weeks were borrowed for my tour of Naples , the most populous of cities , relative to its fize , whofe luxurious inhabitants feem to dwell on the con- fines of paradife and hell ...
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... STUDY OF NATURE . To the Editor of the Univerfal Magazine . A S it is cuftomary with you to amufe and inftruct your readers with valuable selections from different publications ; I prefume the following extracts , from the tracts ...
... STUDY OF NATURE . To the Editor of the Univerfal Magazine . A S it is cuftomary with you to amufe and inftruct your readers with valuable selections from different publications ; I prefume the following extracts , from the tracts ...
Side 34
... study for the whole life of man ; and though all have not time to acquire confiderable knowledge on this fubject , yet every one may contrive to obtain a tolerable degree of curious information . There are perfons , who call them ...
... study for the whole life of man ; and though all have not time to acquire confiderable knowledge on this fubject , yet every one may contrive to obtain a tolerable degree of curious information . There are perfons , who call them ...
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... study . But what did the hiftory of states and empires prefent to my view ? Alas ! what , but the weak- nefs and the guilt of mankind ? I be- held the few , whom fortune had un- happily placed in view of the giddy eminences of life ...
... study . But what did the hiftory of states and empires prefent to my view ? Alas ! what , but the weak- nefs and the guilt of mankind ? I be- held the few , whom fortune had un- happily placed in view of the giddy eminences of life ...
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Side 78 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Side 80 - How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that? And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
Side 352 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct: and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Side 352 - ... magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
Side 85 - He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Side 349 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
Side 78 - Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops. Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Side 352 - Nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.
Side 32 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter', that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Side 354 - The inducements of interest for observing that conduct will best be referred to your own reflections and experience. With me, a. predominant motive has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress, without interruption, to that degree of strength and consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes.