Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle, 130. köide1821 |
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... France , by the treachery of her Ruler , Joseph Buonaparte usurped the Sovereignty of the Realm . The Trade and Commerce of Great Britain with the Continent , at this period , were almost annihilated , owing to the odious decrees of ...
... France , by the treachery of her Ruler , Joseph Buonaparte usurped the Sovereignty of the Realm . The Trade and Commerce of Great Britain with the Continent , at this period , were almost annihilated , owing to the odious decrees of ...
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iv PREFACE . The Attila of France , and the Scourge of Europe , was in the plenitude of his power . At this alarming crisis , 1811 , his present most gracious Majesty was appointed Regent of the United Kingdom . The National hopes ...
iv PREFACE . The Attila of France , and the Scourge of Europe , was in the plenitude of his power . At this alarming crisis , 1811 , his present most gracious Majesty was appointed Regent of the United Kingdom . The National hopes ...
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... France , & c.49 Correspondence of Linnæus , by Sir J.E.Smith 53 Owen's History of the Bible Society ........ 56 Godwin's Inquiry , in answer to Mr. Malthus 57 Agatha , a Tragedy , by E. A. Burnaby ....... 59 Dictionarium Ionicum Græco ...
... France , & c.49 Correspondence of Linnæus , by Sir J.E.Smith 53 Owen's History of the Bible Society ........ 56 Godwin's Inquiry , in answer to Mr. Malthus 57 Agatha , a Tragedy , by E. A. Burnaby ....... 59 Dictionarium Ionicum Græco ...
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... France is here conspi- cuous , and the comparison with Eng- lish good sense is striking . The bat- tles of Marlborough are tapestried at Blenheim , but these were fought with equal arms . Our Indian combats are not deemed worthy of ...
... France is here conspi- cuous , and the comparison with Eng- lish good sense is striking . The bat- tles of Marlborough are tapestried at Blenheim , but these were fought with equal arms . Our Indian combats are not deemed worthy of ...
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... France had given orders to his Ambassador to purchase them , which having come to the ears of Cromwell , he sent Gen. Skippon to bid for them , lest they should be conveyed out of the coun- try . When the lot was proposed , long silence ...
... France had given orders to his Ambassador to purchase them , which having come to the ears of Cromwell , he sent Gen. Skippon to bid for them , lest they should be conveyed out of the coun- try . When the lot was proposed , long silence ...
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Page 400 - Pilate, saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
Page 39 - Would he had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this but for their ignorance who chose that circumstance to commend their friend by wherein he most faulted ; and to justify mine own candour, for I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any.
Page 400 - And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
Page 210 - O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me.
Page 72 - MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. WHEREAS, there was this day read at the Board, a Report from a Committee of the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, dated the 7th of last month, in the words following, viz.
Page 400 - Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; he riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself. After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
Page 40 - ... as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power, would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter : as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him,
Page 340 - There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both. The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
Page 531 - is Tonson. You will take care not to depart before he goes away : for I have not completed the sheet which I promised him ; and if you leave me unprotected, I must suffer all the rudeness to which his resentment can prompt his tongue.
Page 108 - I shrewdly suspect that those non est tanti gentlefolks only depreciate the natural and unaffected pleasure which men like me receive from sights of splendour and sounds of harmony, either because they would seem wiser than their simple neighbours, at the expense of being less happy ; or because the mere pleasure of the sight and sound is connected with associations of a deeper kind, to which they are unwilling to yield themselves. " Leaving these gentlemen to enjoy their own wisdom, I still more...