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... history , that Bertuch may be con- fidered worth at least a hundred thou- fand rix dollars . Bertuch's wife is of as fpeculative a turn as her husband : fhe established at Weimar a manufactory of artificial flowers , and inftructed the ...
... history , that Bertuch may be con- fidered worth at least a hundred thou- fand rix dollars . Bertuch's wife is of as fpeculative a turn as her husband : fhe established at Weimar a manufactory of artificial flowers , and inftructed the ...
Side 37
... History of the British Expedition to Egypt ; to which is fubjoined , A Sketch of the prefent State of that Country , and its Means of Defence . Illuftrated with Maps , and a Portrait of Sir Ralph Abercrombie . By Robert Thomas Wilfon ...
... History of the British Expedition to Egypt ; to which is fubjoined , A Sketch of the prefent State of that Country , and its Means of Defence . Illuftrated with Maps , and a Portrait of Sir Ralph Abercrombie . By Robert Thomas Wilfon ...
Side 43
... history , extent , appearance , population , and produce , that the publick may be the better enabled to form an accurate opinion on the importance of a county whofe ftatistical history no Author has yet completed . Purfuing this plan ...
... history , extent , appearance , population , and produce , that the publick may be the better enabled to form an accurate opinion on the importance of a county whofe ftatistical history no Author has yet completed . Purfuing this plan ...
Side 44
... history is traced in the introduction : the moft material events that were tranfacted in Wilts , during this and the fubfequent periods of the hiftory of England , are related from authentic or probable documents , when defcribing the ...
... history is traced in the introduction : the moft material events that were tranfacted in Wilts , during this and the fubfequent periods of the hiftory of England , are related from authentic or probable documents , when defcribing the ...
Side 45
... history and further account of this great and weighty curiofity , See Sect . V. p . 112 . Downton Town and New Hall are briefly defcribed , and a most affecting anecdote related of Dr. Raleigh , elder brother to the famous Sir Walter Ra ...
... history and further account of this great and weighty curiofity , See Sect . V. p . 112 . Downton Town and New Hall are briefly defcribed , and a most affecting anecdote related of Dr. Raleigh , elder brother to the famous Sir Walter Ra ...
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Side 336 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Side 24 - ... every thing that has being, especially such of his creatures who fear they are not regarded by him. He is privy to all their thoughts, and to that anxiety of heart in particular, which is apt to trouble them on this occasion ; for, as it is impossible he should overlook any of his creatures, so we may be confident...
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Side 352 - I think your critics call them ; brevity, simplicity, and proper words in proper places, form, in my opinion, the perfection of eloquence. But I interrupt you. MERCURY. I mentioned the necessity which an English writer, who aims at popularity, is now under of using long words : I ought to have added, that it is also thought genteel sometimes to shorten ordinary expressions. For reformation...
Side 326 - ... the thickness of this casing of cork being four inches, it projects at the top a little without the gunwale. The cork on the outside is secured...
Side 163 - A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual — they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not his deficience. By any acute observer who had looked on the transactions of the medical world for half a century a very curious book might be written on the "Fortune of Physicians.