The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volumen 3Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson Munroe and Francis, 1806 Vols. 3-4 include appendix: "The Political cabinet." |
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... relates that this emperour sent copyists to Alexandria to transcribe a great number of books , which he wanted for his ... relate , that the num- ber of volumes burnt by Cæsar amounted to four hundred thou- sand ; and as it appears that ...
... relates that this emperour sent copyists to Alexandria to transcribe a great number of books , which he wanted for his ... relate , that the num- ber of volumes burnt by Cæsar amounted to four hundred thou- sand ; and as it appears that ...
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... relate the riches and glories of the place . ' . ... Fortune has , indeed , but rendered justice to so much excellence , in setting it so high to publick view ; or rather Provi- dence has done justice to itself , in placing the most ...
... relate the riches and glories of the place . ' . ... Fortune has , indeed , but rendered justice to so much excellence , in setting it so high to publick view ; or rather Provi- dence has done justice to itself , in placing the most ...
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... relate to nine lunar and four solar eclip- ses , one transit of Venus , and two transits of Mercury . Two of the ... relates . When viewing the sub- sequent eclipses , namely three of the moon and two of the sun , he was at Cambridge ...
... relate to nine lunar and four solar eclip- ses , one transit of Venus , and two transits of Mercury . Two of the ... relates . When viewing the sub- sequent eclipses , namely three of the moon and two of the sun , he was at Cambridge ...
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... relate any of the circumstances which attended the destruction of the library ; but what confidence can be placed in ... relates in minute detail the life of Omar and the taking of Alexandria . Is it to be conceived , is it credible ...
... relate any of the circumstances which attended the destruction of the library ; but what confidence can be placed in ... relates in minute detail the life of Omar and the taking of Alexandria . Is it to be conceived , is it credible ...
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... relate . That so much labour has been employed , and so little achiev- ed , will be a circumstance of hu- miliation to the vanity of under- taking ; and the calculating portion of mankind , after an intimacy with society , will rather ...
... relate . That so much labour has been employed , and so little achiev- ed , will be a circumstance of hu- miliation to the vanity of under- taking ; and the calculating portion of mankind , after an intimacy with society , will rather ...
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Página 448 - ... the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield them relief; what would become of man himself, whom these things now do all serve...
Página 518 - That day of wrath, .that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day ? When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll ; When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead ! Oh ! on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay, Be THOU the trembling sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away ! HUSH'D is the harp — the Minstrel...
Página 554 - It implied' an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.
Página 515 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Página 515 - In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot: Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank, in...
Página 189 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight. Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Página 447 - ... should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself...
Página 518 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well...
Página 278 - And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
Página 335 - In the mean time we did not forget our duty, and though we had a better comedy going, in which Johnson was chief actor, we betook ourselves in good time to our separate and allotted posts, and waited the awful drawing up of the curtain. As our Station...