Studies of Nature, Volume 4J. Mawman, 1809 |
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... age , our friends measure their consideration of us only by that which their own enemies entertain respecting us , and that they court us just in proportion as we can be useful , or render ourselves formidable , to them . I have every ...
... age , our friends measure their consideration of us only by that which their own enemies entertain respecting us , and that they court us just in proportion as we can be useful , or render ourselves formidable , to them . I have every ...
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... ages remote , they have bestowed on them a sufficient air of probability , to induce a Reader possessed of indulgence , to receive as realities recitals which he has no longer the pow- er of supporting by facts . This was by no means ...
... ages remote , they have bestowed on them a sufficient air of probability , to induce a Reader possessed of indulgence , to receive as realities recitals which he has no longer the pow- er of supporting by facts . This was by no means ...
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... ages pre- sent , winged it's way toward the ages of Antiquity , and alighted first of all among the Nations of Arcadia . This happy portion of Greece presented to me climates and situations similar to those which are dispersed over the ...
... ages pre- sent , winged it's way toward the ages of Antiquity , and alighted first of all among the Nations of Arcadia . This happy portion of Greece presented to me climates and situations similar to those which are dispersed over the ...
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... religious institutions vary in every country with the lapse of ages , and are peculiar to it : but the Laws of Nature are of all periods of time , and interest all Nations , 1 Hence it has come to pass that the Poets C 3 FRAGMENT . 21.
... religious institutions vary in every country with the lapse of ages , and are peculiar to it : but the Laws of Nature are of all periods of time , and interest all Nations , 1 Hence it has come to pass that the Poets C 3 FRAGMENT . 21.
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... age of * To your lov'd mountains , and your verdant plains , Repeat , Arcadians , these my love lorn - strains ; In magic numbers you alone excel . Lull'd to soft rest my lifeless limbs shall dwell , Should your sweet notes immortalize ...
... age of * To your lov'd mountains , and your verdant plains , Repeat , Arcadians , these my love lorn - strains ; In magic numbers you alone excel . Lull'd to soft rest my lifeless limbs shall dwell , Should your sweet notes immortalize ...
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ÆNEID ages ambition ancient Arcadians arms Bardus behold body bosom Bramins Carnut Cephas Ceres cities citizens Clergy Colonies commerce corps Doctor Druids Earth Egypt Empire employed Eneas enemies Europe eyes father favour felicity forests formed fortune France frequently fruits Gauls Globe glory Greeks hand happiness heart Heaven Hercules honour human India Indian inhabitants interest island Jagrenat Jupiter King Kingdom labours Lacedemon land language laws liberty likewise Louis XVI Lutetia mankind manner means Memnon ment miserable Monarchy mother National Assembly Nature never night Nobility Omfi Pandects Paria Paris perceived Persia persons plants Plutarch possess present Priam Priests Prince produced reason religion religious render replied repose respect river Roman Rome shores slavery slaves subsistence thee thing thou tion Tirteus trees truth Virgil virtue whole wish word wretched young
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Page 459 - So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
Page 459 - Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
Page 454 - Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
Page 459 - Else, when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
Page 459 - What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also : I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Page 22 - Amor, nec gramina rivis, nec cytiso saturantur apes, nec fronde capellae.' 30 tristis at ille ' tamen cantabitis, Arcades,' inquit, ' montibus haec vestris : soli cantare periti Arcades, o mihi turn quam molliter ossa quiescant, vestra meos olim si fistula dicat amores ! atque utinam ex vobis unus vestrique fuissem aut custos gregis aut maturae vinitor uvae...
Page 51 - AH black with smoke, a rocky island stood, The dark Vulcanian land, the region of the god. Here the grim Cyclops ply, in vaults profound, The huge /Eolian forge that thunders round.
Page 60 - Hunc tibi praeterea, spes et solatia nostri, Pallanta adjungam . Sub te tolerare magistro Militiam et grave Martis opus, tua cernere facta, Assuescat, primis et te miretur ab annis.
Page 52 - Tres imbris torti radios, tres nubis aquosae Addiderant ; rutili tres ignis et alitis austri : Fulgores nunc terrificos, sonitumque, metumque Miscebant operi, flammisque sequacibus iras.
Page 53 - Capacious of the whole Rutulian war, Some, orb in orb, the blazing buckler frame ; Some with huge bellows rouze the roaring flame : Some in the ftream the hiffing metals drown'd ; 605 ' From vault to vault the thund'ring ftrokes rebound, And the deep caves rebellow to the found.