A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volum 4Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... University , and recommended him as a servitor to some of his scholars of high rank . But prosperity , which depends upon the caprice of others , is of short duration . Cave's su- periority in literature exalted him to an invidious ...
... University , and recommended him as a servitor to some of his scholars of high rank . But prosperity , which depends upon the caprice of others , is of short duration . Cave's su- periority in literature exalted him to an invidious ...
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... universities . But when the time came , no name was seen among his writers that had been ever seen before ; the universities and several private men rejected the province of assigning the prize . At all this Mr. Cave wondered for awhile ...
... universities . But when the time came , no name was seen among his writers that had been ever seen before ; the universities and several private men rejected the province of assigning the prize . At all this Mr. Cave wondered for awhile ...
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... university . At Cam- bridge therefore he made his first appearance in a very ex- traordinary character , and was perhaps the only person that ever first entered an university , not to receive , but com- municate , knowledge . He was not ...
... university . At Cam- bridge therefore he made his first appearance in a very ex- traordinary character , and was perhaps the only person that ever first entered an university , not to receive , but com- municate , knowledge . He was not ...
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... university , made application to the Duke of Somerset , then Chancellor , who , together with Sir Isaac Newton , and some other persons of eminence , waited on Queen Anne , to intercede for a mandate for a master's degree , which her ...
... university , made application to the Duke of Somerset , then Chancellor , who , together with Sir Isaac Newton , and some other persons of eminence , waited on Queen Anne , to intercede for a mandate for a master's degree , which her ...
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... university . I observed the shelves were of his own making , being pieces of deal boxes , which , pro- bably , he sent his books and clothes down in upon these occasions . There were , some years ago , two or three hundred books in it ...
... university . I observed the shelves were of his own making , being pieces of deal boxes , which , pro- bably , he sent his books and clothes down in upon these occasions . There were , some years ago , two or three hundred books in it ...
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volum 4 John Walker Visualització completa - 1811 |
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Pàgina 386 - 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 383 - 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 306 - An Account of an attempt to ascertain the Longitude at Sea, by an exact Theory of the Variation of the Magnetical Needle...
Pàgina 622 - 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!
Pàgina 91 - Britain was a plentiful and perpetual emporium of learned authors ; and men went thither as a market. This drew to the place a mighty trade ; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable conversation. And the booksellers themselves were knowing and conversible men, with whom, for the sake of bookish knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse.
Pàgina 118 - Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
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 478 - Lord's Conduct as a Divine Instructor, and on the Excellence of his moral Character,
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.