The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volumen 5Published for the proprietors, 1836 |
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... observe here , that from Petersburgh to Pekin , there is hardly one mountain to be met with in the route which the caravans might take through independant Tartary , and that from Pe- tersburgh to the north of France , by the road of ...
... observe here , that from Petersburgh to Pekin , there is hardly one mountain to be met with in the route which the caravans might take through independant Tartary , and that from Pe- tersburgh to the north of France , by the road of ...
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... observed , many essays and efforts in preceding ages . The Russians came very late ; but the arts having been introduced amongst them in their full perfection , it has happened that they have made more progress in fifty years , than any ...
... observed , many essays and efforts in preceding ages . The Russians came very late ; but the arts having been introduced amongst them in their full perfection , it has happened that they have made more progress in fifty years , than any ...
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... observed , seventy - two thousand bondmen to till their lands , which is evidently too great a number : there can- not be a stronger proof how difficult it is to eradicate abuses of a long standing . I find , by a list of the revenues ...
... observed , seventy - two thousand bondmen to till their lands , which is evidently too great a number : there can- not be a stronger proof how difficult it is to eradicate abuses of a long standing . I find , by a list of the revenues ...
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... observed , a necessity for electing a monarch ; and this election occasioned fresh wars with Poland and Sweden , who maintained , with force of arms , their pretended rights to the crown of Russia . The right of governing a nation ...
... observed , a necessity for electing a monarch ; and this election occasioned fresh wars with Poland and Sweden , who maintained , with force of arms , their pretended rights to the crown of Russia . The right of governing a nation ...
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... observed by the kings of France from Hugh Capet down to Lewis the Young , and by many other crowned heads . The second son of Alexis was Iwan , or John , who was still worse treated by nature than his brother Theodore , being almost ...
... observed by the kings of France from Hugh Capet down to Lewis the Young , and by many other crowned heads . The second son of Alexis was Iwan , or John , who was still worse treated by nature than his brother Theodore , being almost ...
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Página 17 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home : Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Página 16 - Grace, And calls forth all the Wonders of her Face ; Sees by Degrees a purer Blush arise, And keener Lightnings quicken in her Eyes.
Página 16 - But chiefly Love— to Love an Altar built, Of twelve vast French Romances, neatly gilt. There lay three garters, half a pair of gloves; And all the trophies of his former loves...
Página 19 - On various tempers act by various ways, Make some take physic, others scribble plays; Who cause the proud their visits to delay, And send the godly in a pet to pray. A nymph there is, that all thy power disdains, And thousands more in equal mirth maintains. But oh! if e'er thy gnome could spoil a grace, Or raise a pimple on a beauteous face, Like citron-waters matrons...
Página 16 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if Belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all. This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourish'd two locks which graceful hung behind In equal curls, and well conspired to deck With...
Página 16 - Beaux banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive. This erring mortals levity may call ; Oh blind to truth ! the sylphs contrive it all.
Página 86 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Página 17 - Lock ; Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock. " To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note, We trust th...