The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Band 9H.D. Symonds, 1800 |
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... to be vifible , if it were not hid from our eye by the convexity of the water . In this cafe the tops of hills or cliffs , fteeples , towers , & c . & c . first appear to our our view , next , the building , and , THE MONTHLY VISITOR . 45.
... to be vifible , if it were not hid from our eye by the convexity of the water . In this cafe the tops of hills or cliffs , fteeples , towers , & c . & c . first appear to our our view , next , the building , and , THE MONTHLY VISITOR . 45.
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our view , next , the building , and , at last of all , the fhore , which can proceed from nothing elfe but the roundness of the earth , whereby the lower objects are longer hid from the fight than those which are higher . 2. The higher ...
our view , next , the building , and , at last of all , the fhore , which can proceed from nothing elfe but the roundness of the earth , whereby the lower objects are longer hid from the fight than those which are higher . 2. The higher ...
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... building . A neat front prefents to a street , but that is a front merely . The apartments of the prifon are behind , and they confift of various fmall buildings , where the prifoners are locked up at night ; but there are open areas ...
... building . A neat front prefents to a street , but that is a front merely . The apartments of the prifon are behind , and they confift of various fmall buildings , where the prifoners are locked up at night ; but there are open areas ...
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... build- ing , probably two hundred feet in front . It belongs to the Duke of Newcastle , and was an- tiently built by one of his ancestors , an equestrian statue of whom decorates the front , along with a great variety of other figures ...
... build- ing , probably two hundred feet in front . It belongs to the Duke of Newcastle , and was an- tiently built by one of his ancestors , an equestrian statue of whom decorates the front , along with a great variety of other figures ...
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... building , or fet of buildings on the plan of Howard , and , as ufual in the county towns of England , contains com- fortable and even elegant accommodation for the pri- foners . The Trent paffes about a mile from town . It is ...
... building , or fet of buildings on the plan of Howard , and , as ufual in the county towns of England , contains com- fortable and even elegant accommodation for the pri- foners . The Trent paffes about a mile from town . It is ...
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Seite 365 - Mammon led them on, Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven ; for even in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.
Seite 365 - Ransacked the Centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures better hid.
Seite 11 - Had form'd the whole, and made the parts agree, That no unequal portions might be found, He moulded earth into a spacious round: Then with a breath, he gave the winds to blow; And bade the congregated waters flow.
Seite 353 - States, to which the youths of fortune and talents from all parts thereof might be sent for the completion of their education in all the branches of polite literature ; in arts and sciences, in acquiring knowledge in the principles of politics and good government...
Seite 415 - Excepting the streets and avenues and a small part of the ground adjoining the public buildings, the whole place is covered with trees. To be under the necessity of going through a deep wood for one or two miles, perhaps, in order to see a next-door neighbor, and in the same city, is a curious and, I believe, a novel circumstance.
Seite 351 - Item. — Whereas by a law of the Commonwealth of Virginia, enacted in the year 1785, the Legislature thereof was pleased, as an evidence of its approbation of the services I had rendered the public during the Revolution, and partly, I believe, in consideration of my having suggested the vast advantages which the community would derive from the extension of its inland navigation under legislative...
Seite 352 - ... to see the youth of these United States sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education, often before their minds were formed or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of the happiness of their own, contracting too frequently not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican government and to the true and genuine liberties of mankind, •which thereafter are rarely overcome.
Seite 349 - IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. I, GEORGE WASHINGTON, of Mount Vernon, a citizen of the United States, and lately President of the same, do make, ordain, and declare this instrument, which is written with my own hand, and every page thereof subscribed with my name,« to be my last WILL and TESTAMENT, revoking all others.
Seite 350 - ... the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor; it not being in my power, under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held, to manumit them.
Seite 18 - Aug. 1579, founded this Charity for Six poor Travellers, who not being ROGUES, or PROCTORS, May receive gratis for one Night, Lodging, Entertainment, and Four-pence each.