London Review of English and Foreign Literature, Volume 3Cox and Bigg, 1776 - Bibliography |
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... lives have been facrificed in the fatal experiments of its practical ufe , without our being able to obtain a fyftematical criterion of its mechanical force , or a physical analysis of its compofition . Not that we mean to de- preciate ...
... lives have been facrificed in the fatal experiments of its practical ufe , without our being able to obtain a fyftematical criterion of its mechanical force , or a physical analysis of its compofition . Not that we mean to de- preciate ...
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... live in a different climate : But those who think fo may be told , that in a medical fenfe , the people of different countries , are no otherwise to be diftinguished from each other , than fo far as they may be of more firm or feeble ...
... live in a different climate : But those who think fo may be told , that in a medical fenfe , the people of different countries , are no otherwise to be diftinguished from each other , than fo far as they may be of more firm or feeble ...
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... lives it occafioned . 66 Notwithstanding the damages fuftained by individual perfons on fuch occafions , the want of fuch tempefts for many years together , is probably a great misfortune to us ; because the air does not receive fo ...
... lives it occafioned . 66 Notwithstanding the damages fuftained by individual perfons on fuch occafions , the want of fuch tempefts for many years together , is probably a great misfortune to us ; because the air does not receive fo ...
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... live in more temperate climates . Yet by all I could learn , the rains must have been greater as well as more frequent , fifty or fixty years ago ; for an old gentleman , who was Provincial Secretary in the year 1735 affured me , that ...
... live in more temperate climates . Yet by all I could learn , the rains must have been greater as well as more frequent , fifty or fixty years ago ; for an old gentleman , who was Provincial Secretary in the year 1735 affured me , that ...
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... live oaks of near two feet diameter , the wood of which is known to be almost as ponderous and hard as lignum vita ; fo that fome of these trees , must have weighed , perhaps more than two tuns . Yet heavy as they were , no ren : ains ...
... live oaks of near two feet diameter , the wood of which is known to be almost as ponderous and hard as lignum vita ; fo that fome of these trees , must have weighed , perhaps more than two tuns . Yet heavy as they were , no ren : ains ...
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Page 411 - IN beauty, or wit, No mortal as yet To question your empire has dared; But men of discerning Have thought that in learning, To yield to a lady was hard.
Page 176 - THE annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
Page 122 - ... they are desirous of arming their disciples against the fear of death, they inculcate, as an obvious, though melancholy position, that the fatal stroke of our dissolution releases us from the calamities of life, and that those can no longer suffer who no longer exist.
Page 125 - Grotius. a man of genius and learning, who preserved his moderation amidst the fury of contending sects, and who composed the annals of his own age and country at a time when the invention of printing had facilitated the means of intelligence and increased the danger of detection.
Page 508 - Nor is this more incompatible with the precepts, than with the object of this religion, which is the attainment of the kingdom of heaven ; for valour is not that sort of violence by which that kingdom is to be taken, nor are the turbulent spirits of heroes and conquerors admissible into those regions of peace, subordination, and tranquillity.
Page 347 - ... wears the same garter and motto as those of the noble Order of St George in England. Upon the whole, he has a melancholy, mortified appearance.
Page 179 - ... the brickmaker, the bricklayer, the workmen who attend the furnace, the millwright, the forger, the smith, must all of them join their different arts in order to produce them.
Page 184 - First, by affording a great and ready market for the rude produce of the country, they gave encouragement to its cultivation and further improvement. This benefit was not even confined to the countries in which they were situated, but extended more or less to all those with which they had any dealings.
Page 184 - The one is not afraid to lay out at once a large capital upon the improvement of his land when he has a probable prospect of raising the value of it in proportion to the expense.
Page 270 - ... number of pieces; but the real wealth or poverty of the country, they allow, would depend altogether upon the abundance or scarcity of those consumable goods.