Gentleman's Magazine: And Historical Chronicle, Band 76,Teil 1

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F. Jefferies, 1806
 

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Seite 396 - No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness; and, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having "turned many to righteousness.
Seite 364 - Majesty's Treasury, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.
Seite 347 - ... this change from the one number to the other, without any thing in the principles of language to account for it, is frequent, in speaking of God, in the Hebrew tongue, but unexampled in the case of any other being.
Seite 347 - Intent that the Living may know, that the moft High ruleth in the Kingdom of Men, and giveth it to whomfoever he will, and fetteth up over it the bafeft of Men.
Seite 74 - Baron Nelson of the Nile and of Burnham Thorpe, in the County of Norfolk...
Seite 300 - He stablishes the strong, restores the weak, Reclaims the wanderer, binds the broken heart, And, armed himself in panoply complete Of heavenly temper, furnishes with arms, Bright as his own, and trains, by every rule Of holy discipline, to glorious war, The sacramental host of God's elect ! Are all such teachers?
Seite 261 - Grant among the wounded ; but the heroic spirit of this Officer was not subdued by his misfortune, and he continued to lead his men to glory, as long as an enemy was opposed to his Majesty's 72d regiment.
Seite 338 - ... largest. Every ear of wheat is composed of a number of cups placed alternately on each side of the straw ; the lower ones contain, according to circumstances, three or four grains, nearly equal in size, but towards the top of the ear, where the quantity of nutriment is diminished by the more ample...
Seite 138 - He was easy of access to all, and entered very freely into discourse, though laconic in his advice and in his answers. He employed four secretaries to write and copy his letters, and these were to be in readiness as soon as he left his room. He called them neither John, Walter, nor William, but his good-for-nothings, to whom he gave his letters, after he had read them, to copy or to do anything else which he might command.
Seite 55 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.

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