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... whose manner of life resembles their own . ' As all the furs that are brought from the new difcovered iflands , and which are of confiderable value , are fold to the Chinese , Mr. Coxe was naturally led to make inquiries concerning the ...
... whose manner of life resembles their own . ' As all the furs that are brought from the new difcovered iflands , and which are of confiderable value , are fold to the Chinese , Mr. Coxe was naturally led to make inquiries concerning the ...
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... whose portrait we shall exhibit . Delighted Nature faw , with partial care , The lively vigour of the gay VoLTAIRE ; And fondly gave him , with ANACREON's fire , To throw the hand of Age across the lyre : But mute that vary'd voice ...
... whose portrait we shall exhibit . Delighted Nature faw , with partial care , The lively vigour of the gay VoLTAIRE ; And fondly gave him , with ANACREON's fire , To throw the hand of Age across the lyre : But mute that vary'd voice ...
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... whose heart and vascular system had once been well nigh irrecoverably ftopped , by the gradual flight of his vital fire ; while he was herborifing with Mr. Banks , on the frozen coafts of Terra del Fuego * . We have already faid perhaps ...
... whose heart and vascular system had once been well nigh irrecoverably ftopped , by the gradual flight of his vital fire ; while he was herborifing with Mr. Banks , on the frozen coafts of Terra del Fuego * . We have already faid perhaps ...
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... whose interefts were likely to be affected by them , his Grace happily overcame all oppofition , and obtained , in 1762 , an act of parliament for branching his canal to the tideway in the Merfey . This part of the canal is carried over ...
... whose interefts were likely to be affected by them , his Grace happily overcame all oppofition , and obtained , in 1762 , an act of parliament for branching his canal to the tideway in the Merfey . This part of the canal is carried over ...
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... whose wealth is em- ployed in the diffufion of happiness ! -We were led more im- mediately into this reflection by the account which Mr. Young gives of the Lord Chief Baron Forfter's truly aftonishing im- provements : im- Took the road ...
... whose wealth is em- ployed in the diffufion of happiness ! -We were led more im- mediately into this reflection by the account which Mr. Young gives of the Lord Chief Baron Forfter's truly aftonishing im- provements : im- Took the road ...
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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.