The Ordeal: A Critical Journal of Politicks and Literature, Volumen1Joseph Tinker Buckingham J. T. Buckingham, 1809 - 412 páginas This short-lived magazine was concerned with politics and literature; it devoted several sections to politics, and also gave attention to reviews of recent publications, poetry, and the theater. Cf. American perioidicals, 1741-1900. |
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... common enemy , whom it is the interest of society to avoid ; his observations are continually distorted from their natural shape , his criticism is denominated abuse and his expostulation enmity . Under these imputations the editors ...
... common enemy , whom it is the interest of society to avoid ; his observations are continually distorted from their natural shape , his criticism is denominated abuse and his expostulation enmity . Under these imputations the editors ...
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... common in this country as is usually imagined . This book , we think , will afford a very useful test for determining that important problem , and will enable the reader immediately to ascertain whether he has hitherto admired the true ...
... common in this country as is usually imagined . This book , we think , will afford a very useful test for determining that important problem , and will enable the reader immediately to ascertain whether he has hitherto admired the true ...
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... common player is either in- corrigible from dulness , dead to ambition from severity of censure , or incapable of a correct personation of character by reason of the in- numerable difficulties he is obliged to encounter from rivalship ...
... common player is either in- corrigible from dulness , dead to ambition from severity of censure , or incapable of a correct personation of character by reason of the in- numerable difficulties he is obliged to encounter from rivalship ...
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... ! Friend to pleasure , foe to care , Now common grown to half the town- Where is thy former fair renown ? Whene'er stage history records The memory of thy wedded lords , D Dost thou no fond remembrance feel : For Congreve , THE ORDEAL .
... ! Friend to pleasure , foe to care , Now common grown to half the town- Where is thy former fair renown ? Whene'er stage history records The memory of thy wedded lords , D Dost thou no fond remembrance feel : For Congreve , THE ORDEAL .
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... common sense must utterly disclaim . We are naturally surprised to observe a philosopher persist in maintaining an hypothesis in science , after a long course of patient and critical investigation has evinced it false and inconclusive ...
... common sense must utterly disclaim . We are naturally surprised to observe a philosopher persist in maintaining an hypothesis in science , after a long course of patient and critical investigation has evinced it false and inconclusive ...
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Página 223 - I have set the LORD always before me : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Página 31 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! " The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Página 263 - May 1, 1810, provided that in case either Great Britain or France shall, before the third day of March next, so revoke or modify her edicts, as that they shall cease to violate the neutral commerce of the United States...
Página 296 - Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U — — niversity of Gottingen, — — niversity of Gottingen.
Página 208 - I declare, quoth my uncle Toby, my heart would not let me curse the devil himself with so much bitterness. He is the father of curses, replied Dr. Slop. So am not I, replied my uncle. But he is cursed and damned already, to all eternity, replied Dr.
Página 31 - I'm fatherless and motherless. 'And I to Durham, Sir, belong.' Again, as if the thought would choke Her very heart, her grief grew strong; And all was for her...
Página 290 - How often have the thoughts of thee served to amuse these moments of expectation ! — What a difference, alas ! — Dinner — it is taken away as soon as over, and we regret it not ! — It returns again with the return of appetite. — The beef of to-morrow will succeed to the mutton of to-day, as the mutton of to-day succeeded to the veal of yesterday. — But when once the heart has been occupied by a beloved object, in vain would we attempt to supply the chasm by another.
Página 319 - A fool quite angry is quite innocent : Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in high heroic prose, And ridicules beyond a hundred foes : One from all Grub-street will my fame defend, And, more abusive, calls himself my friend.
Página 360 - The' unconscious bullet to the furnace bear ; — Or gaily tittering, tip the match with fire, Prime the big mortar, bid the shell aspire ; Applaud with tiny hands and laughing eyes, • And watch the bright destruction as it flies. Now the fierce forges gleam with angry glare — The windmill * waves his woven wings in air ; Swells the proud sail, the...
Página 297 - There first for thee my passion grew, Sweet! sweet Matilda Pottingen! Thou wast the daughter of my tu — tor, Law Professor at the U — — niversity of Gottingen — — niversity of Gottingen.