The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 32Philological Society of London, 1797 - English literature |
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... should have received more inftruction . I have feldom feen fo much wit in fo small a compafs as there is in your piece : as to the prudence of publifhing it , I have nothing at all to fay ; I have never given advice to an author on that ...
... should have received more inftruction . I have feldom feen fo much wit in fo small a compafs as there is in your piece : as to the prudence of publifhing it , I have nothing at all to fay ; I have never given advice to an author on that ...
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... should fay more in this letter from Hamburgh , if he were not the printer and publisher of it ; a city where the late Emprefs of Ruffia was in part educated , and where Guf- tavus Vafa spent part of his retirement : which , with its ...
... should fay more in this letter from Hamburgh , if he were not the printer and publisher of it ; a city where the late Emprefs of Ruffia was in part educated , and where Guf- tavus Vafa spent part of his retirement : which , with its ...
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... Should not our hearts burn within us at the bleffed found ? That word carries in it all our hope and joy . We shall foon bury all our other hope and joy , never to rife again . And shall beings that have no end , prize any thing that ...
... Should not our hearts burn within us at the bleffed found ? That word carries in it all our hope and joy . We shall foon bury all our other hope and joy , never to rife again . And shall beings that have no end , prize any thing that ...
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... should never have confented to it . But as the thing has paffed with fo much credit to me , the whole honour and merit of it is yours . What I mentioned in a former , relative to an act of Parliament , had no reference to any fuch act ...
... should never have confented to it . But as the thing has paffed with fo much credit to me , the whole honour and merit of it is yours . What I mentioned in a former , relative to an act of Parliament , had no reference to any fuch act ...
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... should be no bigger than a fugar loaf . When that happy period arrives , all those who have the good of their country at heart may , with Monfieur de Non , exclaim : “ Every thing , ” within which circle he must certainly comprehend fol ...
... should be no bigger than a fugar loaf . When that happy period arrives , all those who have the good of their country at heart may , with Monfieur de Non , exclaim : “ Every thing , ” within which circle he must certainly comprehend fol ...
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Page 96 - I remember, Sir, with a melancholy pleasure, the situation of the honourable gentleman who made the motion for the repeal ; in that crisis, when the whole trading interest of this empire, crammed into your lobbies, with a trembling and anxious expectation, waited, almost to a winter's return of light, their fate from your resolutions.
Page 53 - A naval power, next to the militia, is the natural defence of the United States.
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Page 96 - When, at length you had determined in their favour, and your doors, thrown open, showed them the figure of their deliverer in the well-earned triumph of his important victory, from the whole of that grave multitude there arose an involuntary burst of gratitude and transport.