Memoirs of Literature: Containing a Large Account of Many Valuable Books, Letters and Dissertations Upon Several Subjects, Miscellaneous Observations, Etc, Volume 4

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Page 422 - When architects have done their part, The matter may betray their art : Time, if we use ill-chosen stone, Soon brings a well-built palace down. Poets, that lasting marble seek, Must carve in Latin or in Greek : We write in sand : our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows.
Page 131 - Jud. lib. 5, cap. 4. And I have reason to believe it, because when I was there, I perceived in many places a smell of honey and wax, as strong as if one had been in an apiary. Why then might not this country very well maintain the vast number of its inhabitants, being in every part so productive...
Page 151 - Lucian relates concerning this river, viz. that this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour ; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains out of which this stream rises.
Page 130 - For it is obvious for any one to observe, that these rocks and hills must have been anciently covered with earth, and cultivated, and made to contribute to the maintenance of the inhabitants, no less than if the country had been all plain; nay, perhaps much more, forasmuch as such a mountainous and uneven surface affords a larger space of ground for cultivation than this country would amount to, if it were all reduced to a perfect level.
Page 284 - Se de févérité : Le prélat, par la brigue aux honneurs parvenu, Ne fut plus qu'abufer d'un ample revenu ; Et pour toute vertu fit , au dos d'un carrofle , A côté d'une mitre armorier fa crofle.
Page 305 - Item, et non content de cela, pour mieux divulguer et espancher sondit venin et hérésie, depuis peu de temps en ça il a fait imprimer un autre livre à cachette dans Vienne en Dauphiné, rempli...
Page 51 - I shall find in it admirable things, and such as have been hitherto unheard of. He offers to come hither, if I like it : but I will not engage my word ; for if he comes, and if any regard be had to my authority, I will not allow him to escape with his life.
Page 306 - ... mettant peine icelle infecter de sa poison, a volontairement confessé et reconnu avoir escrit lettre à un des ministres de cette cité, dans laquelle entre autres plusieurs horribles et enormes blasphemes contre nostre sainte religion evangelique, il dit nostre évangile être sans foi et sans Dieu, et que pour un Dieu nous avons un C — re à tr — s t-tes (1).
Page 313 - ... sentence, which we give in writing, we condemn thee, Michael Servetus, to be bound and carried to the place called Champel, and there to be fastened to a post and burnt alive with thy books, both written with thy own hand, and printed, till thy body be reduced to ashes; and thus thou shalt end thy days, to give an example to others, who would do the like.
Page 130 - ... mountains, their manner was to gather up the stones, and place them in several lines along the sides of the hills in form of a wall. By such borders they supported the mould from tumbling or being washed down, and formed many beds of excellent soil, rising gradually one above another, from the bottom to the top of the mountains. Of this form of culture you see evident footsteps wherever you go in all the mountains of Palestine.

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