A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volum 4Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... Company of Stationers . He wrote an " Account of the Criminals , " which had for some time a considerable sale ; and published many little pamphlets that accident brought into his hands , of which it would B 2 Edward Cave . 3.
... Company of Stationers . He wrote an " Account of the Criminals , " which had for some time a considerable sale ; and published many little pamphlets that accident brought into his hands , of which it would B 2 Edward Cave . 3.
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... considerable sale . * Cave now began to aspire to popularity , and being a greater lover of poetry than any other art , he some time offered subjects for poems , and proposed prizes for the best performers . The first prize was fifty ...
... considerable sale . * Cave now began to aspire to popularity , and being a greater lover of poetry than any other art , he some time offered subjects for poems , and proposed prizes for the best performers . The first prize was fifty ...
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... considerable progress in classical learning . Virgil and Horace were his favourites among the Roman writers , and he would quote them in conversation with great propriety , and without any appearance of pedantry ; but Euclid ...
... considerable progress in classical learning . Virgil and Horace were his favourites among the Roman writers , and he would quote them in conversation with great propriety , and without any appearance of pedantry ; but Euclid ...
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... considerable ; to which he added such a knowledge of the common law of England , as few clergymen attain to . This it was that gave him that influence in all cases where the church was concerned , as knowing precisely what it had to ...
... considerable ; to which he added such a knowledge of the common law of England , as few clergymen attain to . This it was that gave him that influence in all cases where the church was concerned , as knowing precisely what it had to ...
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... considerable expence . And they have been actually sent to all the islands and colonies of America ; and , by the care of the governors and clergy , it is hoped by this time , that they are all properly distributed among the people of ...
... considerable expence . And they have been actually sent to all the islands and colonies of America ; and , by the care of the governors and clergy , it is hoped by this time , that they are all properly distributed among the people of ...
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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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Passatges populars
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.