Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volum 99Pub. for J. Hinton., 1796 |
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Side 4
... and fo fevere a fatire as is contained in a French wri ter's definition of the word Modefte . To be modeft , ' he says , was for- merly the diftinction of youth ; but modesty is now to be found only in the convent 4 THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE.
... and fo fevere a fatire as is contained in a French wri ter's definition of the word Modefte . To be modeft , ' he says , was for- merly the diftinction of youth ; but modesty is now to be found only in the convent 4 THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE.
Side 5
... French horn , and many of them carrying flags , in which I could difcover neither pro- priety nor meaning . Of a few of the girls , the complexion and features were fo beautiful , as to indicate , that , when arrived at years of ...
... French horn , and many of them carrying flags , in which I could difcover neither pro- priety nor meaning . Of a few of the girls , the complexion and features were fo beautiful , as to indicate , that , when arrived at years of ...
Side 7
... FRENCH Writer remarks , that bles , of which it is compofed , affords < • Now Addison , in one of his papers him the means of expreffing his ideas in the Spectator , returns thank to with as little found as posible . Providence for ...
... FRENCH Writer remarks , that bles , of which it is compofed , affords < • Now Addison , in one of his papers him the means of expreffing his ideas in the Spectator , returns thank to with as little found as posible . Providence for ...
Side 8
... French . other obfervations of the fame kind , to which the Dutchman , not under- standing them , made no reply . When he arrived at Amfterdam , he faw a moft beautiful woman on the quays , walking arm in arm with a gentleman ; he afked ...
... French . other obfervations of the fame kind , to which the Dutchman , not under- standing them , made no reply . When he arrived at Amfterdam , he faw a moft beautiful woman on the quays , walking arm in arm with a gentleman ; he afked ...
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... French language . We paffed through most of the principal towns of Swifferland ; Neufchâtel , Bienne , Soleurre , Arau , Baden , Zurich , Bafil , and Bern . In every place we visited the churches , arfenals , libraries , and all the ...
... French language . We paffed through most of the principal towns of Swifferland ; Neufchâtel , Bienne , Soleurre , Arau , Baden , Zurich , Bafil , and Bern . In every place we visited the churches , arfenals , libraries , and all the ...
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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.