The County Magazine, 1. köideB.C. Collins, 1788 |
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... also offer you a reward for fo doing , for which they expect no other return than to be affured that the improvement has , or may prove advantageous to yourselves . Can any pro- pofal be more than this ? Your contribu- tions are only ...
... also offer you a reward for fo doing , for which they expect no other return than to be affured that the improvement has , or may prove advantageous to yourselves . Can any pro- pofal be more than this ? Your contribu- tions are only ...
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... also on fire , but did not burn with fo much rapidity . For fome hours , the attack and defence The light thrown out on all fides by the were fo equally well fupported , as fcarcely flames , enabled the artillery to point the to admit ...
... also on fire , but did not burn with fo much rapidity . For fome hours , the attack and defence The light thrown out on all fides by the were fo equally well fupported , as fcarcely flames , enabled the artillery to point the to admit ...
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... also called butter - cups , and are fup- posed by fome to give the butter its rich yellow tinge at this feafon ; but falfely , as the cows will not touch it , on account of its biting quality . Birds hatch and rear their young prin ...
... also called butter - cups , and are fup- posed by fome to give the butter its rich yellow tinge at this feafon ; but falfely , as the cows will not touch it , on account of its biting quality . Birds hatch and rear their young prin ...
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... also properly called Midfum- mer , though , indeed , the greatest heats are not yet arrived ; and there is more I am far from laying the blame to the inftitution itself ; nor did I ever know a couple who were apt to quarrel , that I ...
... also properly called Midfum- mer , though , indeed , the greatest heats are not yet arrived ; and there is more I am far from laying the blame to the inftitution itself ; nor did I ever know a couple who were apt to quarrel , that I ...
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... also bu- ried in this chapel . On the north fide is another , built by the Hungerford family , which now , as well as the chapel , are gone to decay , but in it are curious paintings worthy obfervation , as being characteristic of the ...
... also bu- ried in this chapel . On the north fide is another , built by the Hungerford family , which now , as well as the chapel , are gone to decay , but in it are curious paintings worthy obfervation , as being characteristic of the ...
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Page 360 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 105 - Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him : a new friend is as new wine ; when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
Page 46 - We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way. We then look back upon our lives with horror, with sorrow, with repentance ; and wish, but too often vainly wish, that we had not forsaken the ways of virtue.
Page 35 - Theirs is yon House that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day; — • There children dwell who know no parents...
Page 246 - Just in the dubious point, where with the pool Is mix'd the trembling stream, or where it boils Around the stone, or from the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly; And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game.
Page 46 - by what chance thou hast been brought hither ; I have been now twenty years an inhabitant of the wilderness, in which I never saw a man before.
Page 46 - He did not, however, forget whither he was travelling, but found a narrow way bordered with flowers...
Page 48 - ... the lion in his rage I meet ! Oft in the dust I view his printed feet ; And fearful oft, when Day's declining light Yields her pale empire to the mourner Night, By hunger...
Page 17 - To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue, And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own.
Page 247 - Thee dispos'd into congenial soils, Stands each attractive plant, and sucks, and swells The juicy tide; a twining mass of tubes. At Thy command the vernal sun awakes The torpid sap, detruded to the root By wintry winds; that now in fluent dance, And lively fermentation, mounting, spreads All this innumerous-coloured scene of things.