A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Band 2John Walker Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... signifies a strumpet . Dr. Swift says , So Mævius , when he drained his skull , To celebrate some suburb trull ; His ... signified a servant , and of villain , a sort of slave , is generally known . Pedant anciently meant a schoolmaster ...
... signifies a strumpet . Dr. Swift says , So Mævius , when he drained his skull , To celebrate some suburb trull ; His ... signified a servant , and of villain , a sort of slave , is generally known . Pedant anciently meant a schoolmaster ...
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... signified a physician : And straightway sent with careful diligence , To fetch a leech , the which had great insight ... signified a mistress of a family , who was a lady , and it is used still in the English law , to signify a lady ...
... signified a physician : And straightway sent with careful diligence , To fetch a leech , the which had great insight ... signified a mistress of a family , who was a lady , and it is used still in the English law , to signify a lady ...
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... signified a bitch ; and so it does at this day in the Hyrca- nian tongue , according to Tanaq . Faber , in his commentary upon Justin , Lib . i . We have a similar example , and much better known , in the Roman History ; the two ...
... signified a bitch ; and so it does at this day in the Hyrca- nian tongue , according to Tanaq . Faber , in his commentary upon Justin , Lib . i . We have a similar example , and much better known , in the Roman History ; the two ...
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... signify the word of God , many , perhaps , would be glad to know . We have it from the Romans , who , from the similitude sub- sisting between spinning and weaving , and the art of com- posing , both in verse and prose , applied to the ...
... signify the word of God , many , perhaps , would be glad to know . We have it from the Romans , who , from the similitude sub- sisting between spinning and weaving , and the art of com- posing , both in verse and prose , applied to the ...
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... signify any exposition or larger commentary . From hence are derived our English expressions , to put a gloss upon a ... signifies to sing to , or with , the lyre , and from thence come psalmus , and psaltria . When Horace , Lib . IV ...
... signify any exposition or larger commentary . From hence are derived our English expressions , to put a gloss upon a ... signifies to sing to , or with , the lyre , and from thence come psalmus , and psaltria . When Horace , Lib . IV ...
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Seite 138 - And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
Seite 320 - I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; — And take...
Seite 302 - Under the opening eye-lids of the morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn...
Seite 248 - Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether, though it were but for a while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself ; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular...
Seite 75 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Seite 321 - Glittering in golden coats, like images ; As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer ; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
Seite 93 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Seite 293 - On the other side; which, when the arch-felon saw, Due entrance he disdain'd ; and, in contempt, At one slight bound high overleap'd all bound Of hill or highest wall, and sheer within Lights on his feet. As when a prowling wolf, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey, Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve, In hurdled cotes amid the field secure, Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold...
Seite 206 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Seite 363 - Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next, and next all human race...