Somerset House Gazette and Literary Museum, Or, Weekly Miscellany of Fine Arts, Antiquities, and Literary Chit Chat

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Page 400 - Between two worlds life hovers like a star Twixt night and morn upon the horizon's verge. How little do we know that which we are ! How less what we may be! The eternal surge Of time and tide rolls on and bears afar Our bubbles. As the old burst, new emerge, Lashed from the foam of ages; while the graves Of empires heave but like some passing waves.
Page 140 - Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
Page 103 - ... a Custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the Nose, harmful to the Brain, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the black stinking Fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian Smoke of the Pit that is bottomless.
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Page 18 - When any place of special obscurity is doubted of, letters to be directed by authority, to send to any learned man in the land for his judgment of such a place." 12. " Letters to be sent from every bishop to the rest of his clergy admonishing them of this translation in hand, and to move and charge as many, as being skilful in the tongues, and having taken pains in that kind, to send his particular observations to the company either at Westminster, Cambridge or Oxford, according as it was directed...
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