Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volum 99Pub. for J. Hinton., 1796 |
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Side 8
... cafe , we never think of fludying any other language , as with our own we may travel any where . ' The Parisians , in particular , are fo perfuaded this is the fact , that they imagine there is fcarcely a perfon on the face of the globe ...
... cafe , we never think of fludying any other language , as with our own we may travel any where . ' The Parisians , in particular , are fo perfuaded this is the fact , that they imagine there is fcarcely a perfon on the face of the globe ...
Side 9
... cafes , convey fo many different meanings , that when we want a definition , we cannot find two people who agree in ... cafe of our friends and acquaintances ought , I fhould humbly prefume , to have made us a little delicate in the use ...
... cafes , convey fo many different meanings , that when we want a definition , we cannot find two people who agree in ... cafe of our friends and acquaintances ought , I fhould humbly prefume , to have made us a little delicate in the use ...
Side 11
... cafe of others . It appears that the fame term of reproach mad , is applied to actions of very dif- ferent natures , and it would therefore be defirable to fix upon fome rules to determine us in our application . Dic- tionary - writers ...
... cafe of others . It appears that the fame term of reproach mad , is applied to actions of very dif- ferent natures , and it would therefore be defirable to fix upon fome rules to determine us in our application . Dic- tionary - writers ...
Side 12
... cafe . In the first place , a rainy day is a day of disappointment , often in matters of business , but more frequent- ly in engagements of pleafure . Hence , of all rainy days , a rainy Sunday is pregnant with the greatest mortifica ...
... cafe . In the first place , a rainy day is a day of disappointment , often in matters of business , but more frequent- ly in engagements of pleafure . Hence , of all rainy days , a rainy Sunday is pregnant with the greatest mortifica ...
Side 20
... cafe with the younger . In a wood , well planted with timber , underwood never comes to any fize , and greater - loffes are fuftained by the coppice wood being damaged , than can be equalled by the advantage of the growing timber ...
... cafe with the younger . In a wood , well planted with timber , underwood never comes to any fize , and greater - loffes are fuftained by the coppice wood being damaged , than can be equalled by the advantage of the growing timber ...
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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.