The Monthly review. New and improved ser, 77. köide1787 |
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... contains much useful , we may add , interefting matter , compiled with feeming industry , and in many parts with care . IN A. B. ART . III . Sacred Biography : or the Hiftory of the Patriarchs : being a Courfe of Lectures , delivered at ...
... contains much useful , we may add , interefting matter , compiled with feeming industry , and in many parts with care . IN A. B. ART . III . Sacred Biography : or the Hiftory of the Patriarchs : being a Courfe of Lectures , delivered at ...
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... contains many pertinent and useful remarks , at the fame time that there are obfervations to which ftrong objections may be made , and which the writer would find it difficult , if not im- poffible to fupport , were he brought to the ...
... contains many pertinent and useful remarks , at the fame time that there are obfervations to which ftrong objections may be made , and which the writer would find it difficult , if not im- poffible to fupport , were he brought to the ...
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... be men- tioned . On the other hand , juftice requires us to declare , that though we think this work , as an elementary treatife , extremely de- E 4 ficient , ficient , it nevertheless contains many excellent rules and ob ( 55 )
... be men- tioned . On the other hand , juftice requires us to declare , that though we think this work , as an elementary treatife , extremely de- E 4 ficient , ficient , it nevertheless contains many excellent rules and ob ( 55 )
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ficient , it nevertheless contains many excellent rules and ob fervations , worthy the attention of thofe officers , who wish to have more than the mere practical knowledge of their profef- fion , and which may be perufed with benefit ...
ficient , it nevertheless contains many excellent rules and ob fervations , worthy the attention of thofe officers , who wish to have more than the mere practical knowledge of their profef- fion , and which may be perufed with benefit ...
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... contains . But though the pro- duction of happiness is the effence of virtue , it is by no means the end . The great end is the probation of mankind , or the giving them an opportunity of exalting or degrading themselves in another ...
... contains . But though the pro- duction of happiness is the effence of virtue , it is by no means the end . The great end is the probation of mankind , or the giving them an opportunity of exalting or degrading themselves in another ...
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Page 192 - tis all a dream; To love and joy thy thoughts confine, Nor hope to pierce the sacred gloom. Beauty has such resistless power, That even the chaste Egyptian dame...
Page 228 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Page 416 - Oh ! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale...
Page 167 - I put my hat upon my head And walk'd into the strand ; And there I met another man, Whose hat was in his hand.
Page 191 - Sweet maid, if thou wouldst charm my sight, And bid these arms thy neck infold ; That rosy cheek, that lily hand Would give thy poet more delight Than all Bocara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcund.
Page 440 - ... thereunto, borrowed even from the praises which are proper to virtue itself. As of a most notorious thief, and wicked outlaw...
Page 440 - ... seldom use to choose unto themselves the doings of good men for the arguments of their poems, but whomsoever they find to be most licentious of life, most bold and lawless in his doings, most dangerous and desperate in all parts of disobedience and rebellious disposition; him they set up and glorify in their rithmes, him they praise to the people, and to young men make an example to follow.
Page 441 - ... that the day was his night, and the night his day; that he loved not to be long wooing of wenches to yield to him, but where he came he took by force the...
Page 211 - Verse varied with pauses and accents, in modern languages, — they are all equally removed from nature, and equally a violation of common speech. When this artificial mode has been established as the vehicle of sentiment, there is another principle in the human mind, to which the work must be referred, which still renders it more artificial, carries it still further from common nature, and deviates only to render it more perfect. That...
Page 441 - ... to their lovers; that his music was not the harp nor lays of love, but the cries of people and clashing of armour; and finally, that he died not bewailed of many, but made many wail when he died, that dearly bought his death.