The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer, Volume 8James Anderson Mundell and Son, Parliament Stairs, 1792 - Books, Reviews |
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... interest , by which they are incited to lord it over mankind . But when pretended philosophers , them- selves , attempt to sap the foundation of acknowledged truths , when they degrade philosophy as much as they are able , it is ...
... interest , by which they are incited to lord it over mankind . But when pretended philosophers , them- selves , attempt to sap the foundation of acknowledged truths , when they degrade philosophy as much as they are able , it is ...
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... interest of ten thousand crowns , which I have earned , for your life . Don't make any difficulties , the principal will return to my family . " M. Bouvant recovered . Some time after- wards the Abbé related this trait to the duchefs of ...
... interest of ten thousand crowns , which I have earned , for your life . Don't make any difficulties , the principal will return to my family . " M. Bouvant recovered . Some time after- wards the Abbé related this trait to the duchefs of ...
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... interest- ing tour . I am , Sir , . Yours , K PISCATOR . My memorandums begin June 27th , 1787. The duke of Argill , lord Breadalbane , the honourable Mr Campbell his lordship's brother , Sir Adam Fergu- son , Mr Brown , and Mr Dempster ...
... interest- ing tour . I am , Sir , . Yours , K PISCATOR . My memorandums begin June 27th , 1787. The duke of Argill , lord Breadalbane , the honourable Mr Campbell his lordship's brother , Sir Adam Fergu- son , Mr Brown , and Mr Dempster ...
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... interest , rather by what he has to tell , than by any adventitious co- louring . But though he does not seem ambitious to decorate his narration with beauty and sublimity of diction , we feel no want of it ; we meet with nothing harsh ...
... interest , rather by what he has to tell , than by any adventitious co- louring . But though he does not seem ambitious to decorate his narration with beauty and sublimity of diction , we feel no want of it ; we meet with nothing harsh ...
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... interest us in their actions . Philip on the one hand , with his generals , all actuated by the same dark spirit of des- potism , and driven on to the most barbarous deeds , are naturally objects of abhorrence . But when con- ' trasted ...
... interest us in their actions . Philip on the one hand , with his generals , all actuated by the same dark spirit of des- potism , and driven on to the most barbarous deeds , are naturally objects of abhorrence . But when con- ' trasted ...
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Page 259 - In the loose rhymes of every poetaster ; Could I be more than any man that lives, Great, fair, rich, wise, all in superlatives ; Yet I more freely would these gifts resign, , Than ever fortune would have made them mine, And hold one minute of this holy leisure Beyond the riches of this empty pleasure.
Page 258 - I would be great, but that the sun doth still Level his rays against the rising hill: I would be high, but see the proudest oak Most subject to the rending thunder-stroke: I would be rich, but see men too unkind, Dig in the bowels of the richest mind: I would be wise, but that I often see The fox suspected, whilst the ass goes free...
Page 259 - Now the wing'd people of the sky shall sing My cheerful anthems to the gladsome spring : A prayer-book, now, shall be my looking-glass, In which I will adore sweet virtue's face. Here dwell no hateful looks, no...
Page 143 - I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being, who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect...
Page 75 - English chronicler who lived at the end of the thirteenth and beginning of the fourteenth century, was a canon-regular of the order of St. Austin at Bridlington in Yorkshire. He translated from the Latin into French verse Herbert Bosenham's (or Boscam's) ' Life of Thomas a Becket,' and compiled, likewise in French verse, a 'Chronicle of England...
Page 259 - I'll be rather. Would the world now adopt me for her heir, Would beauty's queen entitle me " the fair," Fame speak me fortune's minion, could I vie Angels...
Page 19 - Benares, and in other places, wear very thin plates of gold, called ticas, slightly fixed, by way of ornament, between their eye-brows ; and, when they pass through the streets, it is not uncommon for the youthful libertines, who amuse themselves with training...
Page 167 - Indies, belonging to a private company, whose existence had been deemed prejudicial to the commonwealth. What then were the fruits which Britain reaped from this long and desperate war ? A dreadful expense of blood and treasure '', disgrace upon disgrace, an additional load of grievous impositions, and the national debt accumulated to the enormous sum of eighty millions sterling.
Page 224 - I resolve," says Bishop Beveridge, " never to speak of a man's virtues before his face, nor of his faults behind his back.
Page 296 - Sir, I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit, as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.