THE MONTHLY REVIEW OR LITERARY JOURNAL VOL. XII\1755 |
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... experience , the pofitive affertions of the feveral writers upon the subject , cannot but have found , that , more or less , they are all chargeable with great defects , and fome with faults of a groffer kind , amounting to no lefs ...
... experience , the pofitive affertions of the feveral writers upon the subject , cannot but have found , that , more or less , they are all chargeable with great defects , and fome with faults of a groffer kind , amounting to no lefs ...
Page 58
... experience . The cafe feems to lie thus : agriculture and rural economy is a more than delightful study ; it is a bewitching one to men whose genius turns that way ; it was the first that man gave into after the lofs of Paradifaical ...
... experience . The cafe feems to lie thus : agriculture and rural economy is a more than delightful study ; it is a bewitching one to men whose genius turns that way ; it was the first that man gave into after the lofs of Paradifaical ...
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... experience , it is demon- ftrable by common reafon ; yet was it ( 19. ) never practifed , and will even now be ofther ridiculed than ( 20. ) imitated , • till it becomes as common as the pade or dung - fork . ' The author closes this ...
... experience , it is demon- ftrable by common reafon ; yet was it ( 19. ) never practifed , and will even now be ofther ridiculed than ( 20. ) imitated , • till it becomes as common as the pade or dung - fork . ' The author closes this ...
Page 87
... experience of latter times , have informed us , that the French have ever been trou- blesome neighbours , wherever they were feated . - It is therefore to be hoped , that the British nation will be fo far from continu- ing idle ...
... experience of latter times , have informed us , that the French have ever been trou- blesome neighbours , wherever they were feated . - It is therefore to be hoped , that the British nation will be fo far from continu- ing idle ...
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... experience therefore fhews how impolitic it is to defert infant colonies , whose establishment has been un- dertaken on well - grounded motives , for the fake of a few thousand pounds beyond what might be expected , when they are likely ...
... experience therefore fhews how impolitic it is to defert infant colonies , whose establishment has been un- dertaken on well - grounded motives , for the fake of a few thousand pounds beyond what might be expected , when they are likely ...
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Page 320 - Our language* for almost a century, has, by the concurrence of many causes, been gradually departing from its original Teutonick character, and deviating towards a Gallick structure and phraseology, from which it ought to be our endeavour to recal it...
Page 420 - Lord of lords ; who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto ; whom no man hath seen, nor can see : to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
Page 178 - ... and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves ; of such undoubted integrity as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others ; of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind as to have a great deal to lose in case of their being detected in any falsehood ; and at the same time, attesting facts performed in such a public manner and in so celebrated a part of the world, as to render the detection unavoidable : all which circumstances are requisite to...
Page 40 - For I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times the things that are not yet done, Saying, My counsel shall stand, And I will do all my pleasure...
Page 254 - They call me nothing but Jonathan ; and I said, I believed they would leave me Jonathan as they found me, and that I never knew a ministry do anything for those whom they make companions of their pleasures; and I believe you will find it so; but I care not.
Page 227 - Of a feeble temper more than of a frugal judgment ; exposed to our ridicule from his vanity, but exempt from our hatred by his freedom from pride and arrogance. And, upon the whole, it may be pronounced of his character, that all his qualities were sullied with weakness, and embellished by humanity.
Page 212 - I say, they will receive a terrible blow this parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them. This counsel is not to be contemned, because it may do you good, and can do you no harm : for the danger is past, as soon as you have burned the letter. And I hope God will give you the grace to make good use of it, unto whose holy protection I commend you*.
Page 313 - When the radical idea branches out into parallel ramifications, how can a consecutive series be formed of senses in their nature collateral...
Page 310 - If we would copy nature, it may be useful to take this idea along with us, that pastoral is an image of what they call the golden age. So that we are not to describe our shepherds as shepherds at this day really are, but as they may be conceived then to have been ; when the best of men followed the employment.
Page 313 - Words are seldom exactly synonimous; a new term was not introduced, but because the former was thought inadequate: names, therefore, have often many ideas, but few ideas have many names.