A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volum 4John Walker Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... afterwards raised to the office of clerk of the franks , in which he acted with great spirit and firmness ; and often stopped franks which were given by members of parliament to their friends ; because he thought such exten- sion of a ...
... afterwards raised to the office of clerk of the franks , in which he acted with great spirit and firmness ; and often stopped franks which were given by members of parliament to their friends ; because he thought such exten- sion of a ...
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... afterwards taught arithmetic by his father , and was soon able to make very long calculations by the strength of his memory , and to invent new rules for the solution of arithmetical problems , with greater readiness and facility . With ...
... afterwards taught arithmetic by his father , and was soon able to make very long calculations by the strength of his memory , and to invent new rules for the solution of arithmetical problems , with greater readiness and facility . With ...
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... afterwards to ac- cept the charge of this diocese wherein we live , because his business would be at home and about him , and would require no long journies , for which he found himself very unfit . And certain it is , that for the ...
... afterwards to ac- cept the charge of this diocese wherein we live , because his business would be at home and about him , and would require no long journies , for which he found himself very unfit . And certain it is , that for the ...
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... afterwards took orders , and was curate , I believe , of St. Bride's , Fleet - street . He then got to be domestic chaplain to Dr. Bradford , Bishop of Chichester , and married his niece , a very sensible and worthy lady . From that ...
... afterwards took orders , and was curate , I believe , of St. Bride's , Fleet - street . He then got to be domestic chaplain to Dr. Bradford , Bishop of Chichester , and married his niece , a very sensible and worthy lady . From that ...
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John Walker. afterwards succeed , though Mr. Pitt encouraged it very powerfully . The subscribers were great losers . He strongly solicited the act against gin . He was an excellent preacher , and always ready to exert his talent that ...
John Walker. afterwards succeed , though Mr. Pitt encouraged it very powerfully . The subscribers were great losers . He strongly solicited the act against gin . He was an excellent preacher , and always ready to exert his talent that ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 344 - To failings mild, but zealous for desert; The clearest head, and the sincerest heart. This humble praise, lamented Shade! receive, This praise at least a grateful Muse may give: The Muse whose early voice you taught to sing...
Pàgina 381 - Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country.
Pàgina 384 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Pàgina 354 - A Companion to the Guide, and a Guide to the Companion; being a complete Supplement to all the Accounts of Oxford hitherto published.
Pàgina 32 - Divi Britannici, being a Remark upon the Lives of all the Kings of this Isle, from the year of the world 2855, unto the year of grace 1660, fol.
Pàgina 304 - An Account of an attempt to ascertain the Longitude at Sea, by an exact Theory of the Variation of the Magnetical Needle...
Pàgina 165 - If such a correspondence will be agreeable to you, be pleased to inform me in two posts, •what the conditions are on which you shall expect it. Your late ofFer|" gives me no reason to distrust your generosity. If you engage in any literary projects besides this paper, I have other designs to impart, if I could be secure from having others reap the advantage of what I should hint.
Pàgina 165 - As you appear no less sensible than your readers of the defects of your poetical article, you will not be displeased, if, in order to the improvement of it, I communicate to you the sentiments of a person, who will undertake, on reasonable terms, sometimes to fill a column.
Pàgina 476 - An historical View of the English Biblical Translations : the Expediency of revising by Authority our present Translation : and the Means of executing such a Revision.
Pàgina 385 - Reynolds, who was the intimate and beloved friend of that great man ; the friend whom he declared to be " the most invulnerable man he knew ; whom, if he should quarrel with him, he should find the most difficulty how to abuse.