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... Say and Seal , when his glafs was almoft run out , informed the Governor of Maffachufers , in July , 1651 ; " must fay , for Mr. Crown , he hath appeared both here , in the " Council , and to the Lord Chamberlain and others , as really ...
... Say and Seal , when his glafs was almoft run out , informed the Governor of Maffachufers , in July , 1651 ; " must fay , for Mr. Crown , he hath appeared both here , in the " Council , and to the Lord Chamberlain and others , as really ...
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... say what are our fentiments of it . In the difpofition and conduct of his poem , Mr. Hayley has fhewn confummate know- ledge of his fubject ; and his language , though not only figura- tive and glowing , but oftentimes daringly ...
... say what are our fentiments of it . In the difpofition and conduct of his poem , Mr. Hayley has fhewn confummate know- ledge of his fubject ; and his language , though not only figura- tive and glowing , but oftentimes daringly ...
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... say , " There " is a woman who might well be the mother of a Gracchus , and " there is another who might produce a Sylla ! " The number of Meffalinas is fmall , that of Lucretias lefs , and of Sempronias you will find fome rather at ...
... say , " There " is a woman who might well be the mother of a Gracchus , and " there is another who might produce a Sylla ! " The number of Meffalinas is fmall , that of Lucretias lefs , and of Sempronias you will find fome rather at ...
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... says , ' it is clearly proved , that air , rarefied by heat , is capable of giving motion to fluids confined in tubes .'- On the contrary , fuch is the nature of that inftrument , and fo far is the fluid contained in it from owing its ...
... says , ' it is clearly proved , that air , rarefied by heat , is capable of giving motion to fluids confined in tubes .'- On the contrary , fuch is the nature of that inftrument , and fo far is the fluid contained in it from owing its ...
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... say the best of them , are very precarious , and in which , indeed , we have ourselves no doubt of his being mistaken . As an attachment to the chronology of Greece feems , in our Author's estimation , to have led to many unneceffary ...
... say the best of them , are very precarious , and in which , indeed , we have ourselves no doubt of his being mistaken . As an attachment to the chronology of Greece feems , in our Author's estimation , to have led to many unneceffary ...
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Page 458 - An Impartial History of the War in America, between Great Britain and her Colonies from its Commencement to the end of the Year 1779...
Page 320 - And he answered and said unto them, "Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh'? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page 209 - Garrick is to be with you early the next week, and Mr. Johnson to try his fate with a tragedy, and to see to get himself employed in some translation, either from the Latin or the French. Johnson is a very good scholar and poet, and I have great hopes will turn out a fine tragedy-writer. If it should any way lie in your way, doubt not but you would be ready to recommend and assist your countryman. "G. WALMSLEY.
Page 252 - Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew ; Nor did I wonder at the...
Page 328 - Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence : and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
Page 358 - Come, come, Gibber, tell me, if there is not something like envy in your character of this young gentleman: the actor who pleases every body, must be a man of merit.
Page 165 - It must strike the most careless traveller, to see whole strings of cars whipt into a ditch by a gentleman's footman, to make way for his carriage; if they are overturned or broken in pieces, no matter, it is taken in patience: were they to complain, they would, perhaps, be horsewhipped.
Page 212 - When news was brought to Richard, that the Duke of Buckingham was taken, Garrick's look and action, when he pronounced the words, — Off with his head ! So much for Buckingham!
Page 281 - The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband : for thou hast had five husbands ; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband : in that saidst thou truly.
Page 209 - He and another neighbour of mine, one Mr. Samuel Johnson, set out this morning for London together. Davy Garrick is to be with you early the next week, and Mr. Johnson to try his fate with a tragedy, and to see to get himself employed in some translation, either from the Latin or the French.