The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volumen 3Tobias Smollett R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row, 1791 |
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... called to the adminiftration of the finances , are not very im- postant . The ruin of public credit was the bafis of his exalt- ation : the character of M. Necker , his anticipation of the reve nue , by which additional taxes were ...
... called to the adminiftration of the finances , are not very im- postant . The ruin of public credit was the bafis of his exalt- ation : the character of M. Necker , his anticipation of the reve nue , by which additional taxes were ...
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... called the ftag , was pursued by about a dozen others who compofed the pack . The purfued and the purfuers leaped into the great canal , fcrambled out again , and ran about to all parts , while the air refounded with the acclamations of ...
... called the ftag , was pursued by about a dozen others who compofed the pack . The purfued and the purfuers leaped into the great canal , fcrambled out again , and ran about to all parts , while the air refounded with the acclamations of ...
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... called , in the Weft , oak - cubs , from their being fo common on the oak , though they feed on almost every leaf . If the wea- ther during their larva ftate is very cold , or more certainly if it is wet , the number of thefe offenfive ...
... called , in the Weft , oak - cubs , from their being fo common on the oak , though they feed on almost every leaf . If the wea- ther during their larva ftate is very cold , or more certainly if it is wet , the number of thefe offenfive ...
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... called Meles , held in the highest veneration , as by its fide Homer is faid to have written his principal works . The Temple of Ephefus and its deftruction are fufficiently known ; and we may add , that its incendiary has fucceeded in ...
... called Meles , held in the highest veneration , as by its fide Homer is faid to have written his principal works . The Temple of Ephefus and its deftruction are fufficiently known ; and we may add , that its incendiary has fucceeded in ...
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... called the throne of Jupiter ; and near it this infcription , in ancient cha- racters : This is the tomb of Zan . • As it was believed that the god revealed himself in the facred cavern , to those who repaired there to confult him , men ...
... called the throne of Jupiter ; and near it this infcription , in ancient cha- racters : This is the tomb of Zan . • As it was believed that the god revealed himself in the facred cavern , to those who repaired there to confult him , men ...
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Página 258 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed until I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página 257 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the...
Página 258 - ... it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Página 265 - But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system. Pound St Paul's church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is, to be sure, good for nothing: but, put all these atoms together, and you have St Paul's church.
Página 258 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary and cannot impart it; till I am known and do not want it.
Página 257 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Página 266 - When I was running about this town a very poor fellow, I was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty; but I was, at the same time, very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people labouring• to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be ; and yet they all wish to be in his place.
Página 217 - For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ring-leader of the sect of the Nazarenes...
Página 258 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation. My Lord, your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant,
Página 122 - This suggested to him the idea of examining more fully than he had done in the introductory book to his History of America, into the knowledge which the Ancients had of that country, and of considering what is certain, what is obscure, and what is fabulous in the accounts of it which they have handed down to us.