A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volum 4John Walker Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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Pàgina 13
... ancient authors , both Greek and Latin , the philosophers , poets , and orators ; from whence he acquired that correct and ele- gant stile , which appears in all his compositions . His know- lege in divinity was obtained from the study ...
... ancient authors , both Greek and Latin , the philosophers , poets , and orators ; from whence he acquired that correct and ele- gant stile , which appears in all his compositions . His know- lege in divinity was obtained from the study ...
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... ancient family in Lincolnshire ; born in the year 1687 ; admitted of Bennet College , Cambridge , in 1703 ; he took the degree M. B. in 1709 , and practised pre A 201 re physic at Boston , in Lincolnshire 14 Dr. Stukeley . Some Account ...
... ancient family in Lincolnshire ; born in the year 1687 ; admitted of Bennet College , Cambridge , in 1703 ; he took the degree M. B. in 1709 , and practised pre A 201 re physic at Boston , in Lincolnshire 14 Dr. Stukeley . Some Account ...
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... ancient learning , and excellent observations . He closed the last scene of his life with completing a long and laborious work on ancient British coins , in parti- cular of Cunobelin , on which he felicitated himself to have from them ...
... ancient learning , and excellent observations . He closed the last scene of his life with completing a long and laborious work on ancient British coins , in parti- cular of Cunobelin , on which he felicitated himself to have from them ...
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... ancient people , from their own know- ledge , or unquestionable tradition . Some are alive , who were his school fellows ; several are but lately dead , from whom , I apprehend , a larger information might have been expected . But I ...
... ancient people , from their own know- ledge , or unquestionable tradition . Some are alive , who were his school fellows ; several are but lately dead , from whom , I apprehend , a larger information might have been expected . But I ...
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... ancient and wealthy family in our neighbourhood , of the same stem as the Welbies of Gedney , to whom I am related . " Sir Isaac Newton was born at Wolsthorp , a hamlet of Colsterworth , six miles south of Grantham , in the great road ...
... ancient and wealthy family in our neighbourhood , of the same stem as the Welbies of Gedney , to whom I am related . " Sir Isaac Newton was born at Wolsthorp , a hamlet of Colsterworth , six miles south of Grantham , in the great road ...
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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.