The English Review, Or, An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature, Volum 7J. Murray, 1786 |
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Pàgina 8
... themselves with equal alacrity to literature and phi- lofophy . A fociety is formed among a number of gentlemen of that place and its neighbourhood , which has for its object the union of the mechanical with the liberal arts ; which com ...
... themselves with equal alacrity to literature and phi- lofophy . A fociety is formed among a number of gentlemen of that place and its neighbourhood , which has for its object the union of the mechanical with the liberal arts ; which com ...
Pàgina 8
... themselves , or observed it in others . ' Mr. Polier proceeds to make feveral ingenious remarks on fuch works of art as give exercife to the mind , and come chiefly unde that faculty of the understanding , known by the name of tafte ...
... themselves , or observed it in others . ' Mr. Polier proceeds to make feveral ingenious remarks on fuch works of art as give exercife to the mind , and come chiefly unde that faculty of the understanding , known by the name of tafte ...
Pàgina 9
... themselves the prior right to these characters , upon the pretence , that they point out most accurately the various qualities of the metals ; whereas , to the planets they have no kind of relation . Yet , notwithstanding the ...
... themselves the prior right to these characters , upon the pretence , that they point out most accurately the various qualities of the metals ; whereas , to the planets they have no kind of relation . Yet , notwithstanding the ...
Pàgina 13
... is true , that dull and fuperficial men , who are incapable of abstraction abstraction and generalization , attach themselves to folitary and feparate Memoirs of the Literary and Philofophical Society of Manchefter . 13.
... is true , that dull and fuperficial men , who are incapable of abstraction abstraction and generalization , attach themselves to folitary and feparate Memoirs of the Literary and Philofophical Society of Manchefter . 13.
Pàgina 14
abstraction and generalization , attach themselves to folitary and feparate facts , and exhaust on them what little power of perception and retention they are endowed with . Such facts draw not the attention of genius , and therefore ...
abstraction and generalization , attach themselves to folitary and feparate facts , and exhaust on them what little power of perception and retention they are endowed with . Such facts draw not the attention of genius , and therefore ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 402 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Pàgina 288 - Some glossy-leaved, and shining in the sun, The maple, and the beech of oily nuts Prolific, and the lime at dewy eve Diffusing odours ; nor unnoted pass The sycamore, capricious in attire, Now green, now tawny, and ere autumn yet Have changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright.
Pàgina 253 - Johnson's own notions about eating however were nothing less than delicate : a leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal pie with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef...
Pàgina 288 - Whom call we gay ? That honour has been long The boast of mere pretenders to the name. The innocent are gay — the lark is gay, That dries his feathers, saturate with dew, Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams Of dayspring overshoot his humble nest.
Pàgina 229 - He is a path, if any be misled ; He is a robe, if any naked be ; If any chance to hunger, he is bread ; If any be a bondman, he is free ; If any be but weak, how strong is he ! To dead men life he is, to sick men health, To blind men sight, and to the needy wealth, A pleasure without loss, a treasure without stealth.
Pàgina 402 - And it came to pass, when men began to multiply upon the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair ; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Pàgina 264 - America, by beginning to allay ferments and soften animosities there ; and, above all, for preventing, in the mean time, any sudden and fatal catastrophe at Boston, now suffering under the daily irritation of an army before their eyes...
Pàgina 450 - He was beloved by his people, who looked up to him as to a father, and obeyed his commands with alacrity. The confidence we placed in him was unremitting; our admiration of his great talents unbounded; our esteem for his good qualities affectionate and sincere.
Pàgina 92 - ... whose smoke might be attracted and retained by our earth; or whether it was the vast quantity of smoke, long continuing to issue during the summer from Hecla, in Iceland, and that other volcano which arose out of the sea near that island, which smoke might be spread by various winds over the northern part of the world, is yet uncertain.
Pàgina 87 - ... seems to be attracted from the circumambient air. Now we know that the rain, even in our hottest days, comes from a very cold region.