The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, Volume 5F. and C. Rivington, 1795 |
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... whose sex or whofe education has precluded them from a knowledge of the learned languages . No work whatever can be more cal- culated to gratify this fpirit than a tranflation of Paufanias , properly executed . This author , who to a ...
... whose sex or whofe education has precluded them from a knowledge of the learned languages . No work whatever can be more cal- culated to gratify this fpirit than a tranflation of Paufanias , properly executed . This author , who to a ...
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... whose army was vanquithed by Antigonus . " We are told juft before that Pyrrhus vanquished Antigonus and his mercenary Gauls ; but Mr. T. in oppofition to Paufanias and to himself , chooses to reprefent Antigonus not only as conquering ...
... whose army was vanquithed by Antigonus . " We are told juft before that Pyrrhus vanquished Antigonus and his mercenary Gauls ; but Mr. T. in oppofition to Paufanias and to himself , chooses to reprefent Antigonus not only as conquering ...
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... whose scope of obfervation is not very extenfive , all who have thought little and not profoundly . In this clafs also , a benevolent man may find himself , efpecially if he should happen to be also a man of not much reflection . But ...
... whose scope of obfervation is not very extenfive , all who have thought little and not profoundly . In this clafs also , a benevolent man may find himself , efpecially if he should happen to be also a man of not much reflection . But ...
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... whose destructive influence has been so often and fo feverely felt in America . But from Mr. Marsham's remarks this appears not to be the cafe , and we infert what he fays from the conviction of its importance . " It will certainly be a ...
... whose destructive influence has been so often and fo feverely felt in America . But from Mr. Marsham's remarks this appears not to be the cafe , and we infert what he fays from the conviction of its importance . " It will certainly be a ...
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... whose aim is anarchy and univerfal ruin ? Shall the requifition of loyalty , " and honour , and independence , be lefs forcible than that of " republican tyranny ? If there be thofe in this country , on whom thefe confiderations alone ...
... whose aim is anarchy and univerfal ruin ? Shall the requifition of loyalty , " and honour , and independence , be lefs forcible than that of " republican tyranny ? If there be thofe in this country , on whom thefe confiderations alone ...
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Page 270 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 197 - And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me ; for the earth is filled with violence through them ; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Page 301 - And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 229 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
Page 199 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth ; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 199 - And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
Page 249 - Written in a blank leaf of Dugdale's Monasticon. " Deem not, devoid of elegance, the sage, By Fancy's genuine feelings unbeguil'd, Of painful pedantry the poring child; Who turns of these proud domes the historic page, Now sunk by Time, and Henry's fiercer rage. Think'st thou the warbling Muses never smil'd On his lone hours ? Ingenuous views engage His thoughts, on themes unclassic falsely styl'd, Intent.
Page 303 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden ; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Page 395 - Such a constitution as this would make the mighty leviathan of a shorter duration than the feeblest creatures, and not let it...
Page 629 - I began this first book, I had some thoughts of translating the whole Iliad ; but had the pleasure of being diverted from that design, by finding the work was fallen into a much abler hand. I would not therefore be thought to have any other view in publishing this small specimen of Homer's Iliad, than to bespeak, if possible, the favour of the public to a translation of Homer's Odysseis, wherein I have already made some progress.