The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography, Analytical Abstracts of New Publications, Volume 6Published and sold by Moses Thomas, 1815 |
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... persons living to testify , assured him that when he commanded a trading vessel at Mozam- bique , Mombaza , and Melinda , he frequently saw these animals , from six to twelve feet long ; the head and face resembling the human , except ...
... persons living to testify , assured him that when he commanded a trading vessel at Mozam- bique , Mombaza , and Melinda , he frequently saw these animals , from six to twelve feet long ; the head and face resembling the human , except ...
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... persons would now be disposed to deny its ex- istence . A more interesting fact in natural history was observed by Mr. Forbes during this voyage ; the long blue filaments of the Medusa , or Portuguese man of war , blister whatever they ...
... persons would now be disposed to deny its ex- istence . A more interesting fact in natural history was observed by Mr. Forbes during this voyage ; the long blue filaments of the Medusa , or Portuguese man of war , blister whatever they ...
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... person , might leave the spot till they had all gone through the rice ordeal : no one but Harrabby discovered any ... person who prepares the balls may read the intelligible marks of guilt in the guilty person , and act accordingly . Mr ...
... person , might leave the spot till they had all gone through the rice ordeal : no one but Harrabby discovered any ... person who prepares the balls may read the intelligible marks of guilt in the guilty person , and act accordingly . Mr ...
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... person to pass through ; they enlarged it , and sent down . two men by a ladder . After descending several feet , they came to another floor , composed in like manner of bricks and chunam , and here also was a similar aperture . This ...
... person to pass through ; they enlarged it , and sent down . two men by a ladder . After descending several feet , they came to another floor , composed in like manner of bricks and chunam , and here also was a similar aperture . This ...
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... persons , and as many monkeys , who , be ing perfectly unmolested , seemed to have full possession of the roofs and upper parts of the houses . On his first arrival , while the durbar was repairing , he resided in a house , the back ...
... persons , and as many monkeys , who , be ing perfectly unmolested , seemed to have full possession of the roofs and upper parts of the houses . On his first arrival , while the durbar was repairing , he resided in a house , the back ...
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Page 126 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Page 275 - Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life.
Page 100 - The various articles of the Romish creed disappeared like a dream; and after a full conviction, on Christmas Day 1754, I received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne. It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets and mysteries which are adopted by the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.
Page 110 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Page 287 - O'er that high festival. A thousand cups of gold, In Judah deem'd divine — Jehovah's vessels hold The godless heathen's wine. In that same hour and hall, The fingers of a hand Came forth against the wall, And wrote as if on sand : The fingers of a man ; — A solitary hand Along the letters ran, And traced them like a wand.
Page 49 - That landscape ; and of pure, now purer air Meets his approach, and to the heart inspires Vernal delight and joy, able to drive All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils.
Page 275 - Such was the Boy — but for the growing Youth What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light...
Page 147 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe, and walk again: The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise.
Page 286 - And the voice of my mourning is o'er, And the mountains behold me no more: If the hand that I love lay me low, There cannot be pain in the blow!
Page 277 - I passed, did to my heart convey So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing shews of Being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream, that could not live Where meditation was. I turned away And walked along my road in happiness.