Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volumen99Pub. for J. Hinton., 1796 |
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... must foon be balked and difappointed . How long is this beauty to laft ? There are few faces that can keep it to the other fide of five - and- twenty ; and how could you bear it , after having been accustomed to be thus diftinguished ...
... must foon be balked and difappointed . How long is this beauty to laft ? There are few faces that can keep it to the other fide of five - and- twenty ; and how could you bear it , after having been accustomed to be thus diftinguished ...
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... must be anderflood , has often been productive of laughable mistakes . The following is an example ; and what renders it more really amufing , is , that we are affured it is a fact : The next day , when he was walk- ing out , he faw ...
... must be anderflood , has often been productive of laughable mistakes . The following is an example ; and what renders it more really amufing , is , that we are affured it is a fact : The next day , when he was walk- ing out , he faw ...
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... must keep a girl , forfooth ; and what is his company compofed of ? A fet of fellows with- out a fixpence in their pockets , who eat and drink at his expence , and will be the first to turn tail upon him , when he becomes poor , which I ...
... must keep a girl , forfooth ; and what is his company compofed of ? A fet of fellows with- out a fixpence in their pockets , who eat and drink at his expence , and will be the first to turn tail upon him , when he becomes poor , which I ...
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... must follow that the fupply will annually grow lefs . In order to form fome idea what the increase in the quantity felled is now , and the proportion it bears to what it did twenty years back , the account is inferted of the export ...
... must follow that the fupply will annually grow lefs . In order to form fome idea what the increase in the quantity felled is now , and the proportion it bears to what it did twenty years back , the account is inferted of the export ...
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... must own that the fairnel's of his character , his eloquence , his applica- tion to business , and even his youth , must prepoffefs at least the ignorant in his favour . Of the merit or defects of his administration I cannot pretend to ...
... must own that the fairnel's of his character , his eloquence , his applica- tion to business , and even his youth , must prepoffefs at least the ignorant in his favour . Of the merit or defects of his administration I cannot pretend to ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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!
Página 349 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.