Gleanings Through Wales, Holland and Westphalia: With Views of Peace and War at Home and Abroad. To which is Added Humanity; Or the Rights of Nature. A Poem, Revised and Corrected. By Mr. PrattT. N. Longman, and L. B. Seeley, 1795 |
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Side iii
... English burry - fkurry - Fine opportunities for triumphs of temper - An infal lible receipt to pleafe and difpleafe every body . LETTER XXVIII . p . 10 . Several more condefcending pages , wherein the • Gleaner accommodates himself to ...
... English burry - fkurry - Fine opportunities for triumphs of temper - An infal lible receipt to pleafe and difpleafe every body . LETTER XXVIII . p . 10 . Several more condefcending pages , wherein the • Gleaner accommodates himself to ...
Side iv
... English , with fome Matters as neceffary to travellers as their daily bread , and yet very little attended to , except by dictionary - makers The Gleaner's Em- barraffments , and ludicrous mode of relieving them A pantomimical breakfast ...
... English , with fome Matters as neceffary to travellers as their daily bread , and yet very little attended to , except by dictionary - makers The Gleaner's Em- barraffments , and ludicrous mode of relieving them A pantomimical breakfast ...
Side ix
... of fome of their Poets - Divines - Ci- vilians - Phyficians - The fimilarity of the Dutch and English Language accounted for - Specimens of their refemblance . p . 224 . LETTER LETTER XL . View of Holland in Winter - Its CONT CONTENTS ix.
... of fome of their Poets - Divines - Ci- vilians - Phyficians - The fimilarity of the Dutch and English Language accounted for - Specimens of their refemblance . p . 224 . LETTER LETTER XL . View of Holland in Winter - Its CONT CONTENTS ix.
Side xv
... English- men refident abroad - their Coarfenefs , Rudeness , and Folly ftigmatifed - Various examples . p . 486 . LETTER LIII . Anecdotes of the German Timber - merchants - The author gleans the Duchy of Guilderland - Nime- guen - Arnem ...
... English- men refident abroad - their Coarfenefs , Rudeness , and Folly ftigmatifed - Various examples . p . 486 . LETTER LIII . Anecdotes of the German Timber - merchants - The author gleans the Duchy of Guilderland - Nime- guen - Arnem ...
Side 13
... English- man , who comes from the fineft public roads , and carriages , perhaps , in the whole world , to as it will by comparifon to him appearan immenfe " immenfe bog interfected by ftagnant ditches- and if any GLEANINGS , & c . 13.
... English- man , who comes from the fineft public roads , and carriages , perhaps , in the whole world , to as it will by comparifon to him appearan immenfe " immenfe bog interfected by ftagnant ditches- and if any GLEANINGS , & c . 13.
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Gleanings Through Wales, Holland and Westphalia: With Views of ..., Volum 2 Mr. Pratt (Samuel Jackson) Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1795 |
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Side 203 - I'll tell you, friend; a wife man and a fool. 200 You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobler-like, the parfon will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The reft is all but leather or prunella.
Side 168 - General in conformity to his wilhes, he virC tually tually poflefles the whole patronage of the army. He names all vice-admirals and captains in the navy, inftitutes all courtsmartial, and prefides in the different admiralties. In the three Provinces aux Reglemens he appoints to all offices whatever, and in Holland and Zealand he annually elects the greater part of the magiftrates from a double number of candidates prefented by the towns. He choofes, from a nomination of three candidates, every officer...
Side 367 - My gracious master on my back I bore. Thrice told ten years have danced on down along, Since first to thee these wayworn limbs I gave ; Sweet smiling years ! when both of us were young — The kindest master, and the happiest slave ! Ah, years sweet smiling, now for ever flown ! Ten years, thrice told, alas ! are as a day ! Yet as together we are aged grown, Together let us wear that age away. For still the older times are dear to thought...
Side 82 - French very near him. So between the two the country was given for lost, unless De Ruyter should quickly come up. The flood returned, which they thought was to end in their ruin. But to all their amazement, after it had flowed two or three hours, an ebb of many hours succeeded, which carried the fleet again to the sea. And, before that was spent, De Ruyter came in 1672. view. This they reckoned a miracle wrought for their preservation.
Side 232 - Boerhaave, a man formed by nature for great defigns, and guided by religion in the exertion of his abilities. He was of a robuft and athletic conftitution of body, fo hardened by early feverities, and wholefome fatigue, that he was infenfible of any fharpnefs of air, or inclemency of weather.
Side 441 - But after weighing with attention every circumstance which could influence the balance, it seems probable, that there existed, in the time of Claudius, about twice as many provincials as there were citizens, of either sex, and of every age; and that the slaves were at least equal in number to the free inhabitants of the Roman world.
Side 281 - His feeble force by the mechanic powers, To dig the mineral from the vaulted earth, On what to turn the piercing rage of fire, On what the torrent, and the gather'd blast...
Side 431 - ... encircling her waift, and elevating the other above the head, to meet her hand. The incredible rapidity with which this whirling is performed, and the length of time it continues, turns the fpeclator giddy, but feems.to have no effect on the parties engaged in the dance.
Side 128 - If you prick him, does he not bleed ? If you tickle him, does he not laugh ? If you poison him, does he not die ? And if you wrong him, does he not revenge?
Side 103 - Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove. Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd with care, or cross'd in hopeless love.