The English Review, Or, An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature, Band 9J. Murray, 1787 |
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... merit contained in this fimple fact . Let it be repeated that Conde was intrepid , Turenne prudent , Eugene adroit , Catinat difinterefted ; it is not thus that Washington will be cha racterized . It will be faid of him , 66 at the end ...
... merit contained in this fimple fact . Let it be repeated that Conde was intrepid , Turenne prudent , Eugene adroit , Catinat difinterefted ; it is not thus that Washington will be cha racterized . It will be faid of him , 66 at the end ...
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... thefe patriots and fages . Among the multitude of notes which are added by the tranflator , there is one which conveys a remarkable truth . The • The loyalifts , no doubt , no more merit 4 Chaftellux's Travels in North - America .
... thefe patriots and fages . Among the multitude of notes which are added by the tranflator , there is one which conveys a remarkable truth . The • The loyalifts , no doubt , no more merit 4 Chaftellux's Travels in North - America .
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• The loyalifts , no doubt , no more merit indifcrimate cenfure than any other body of men ; the tranflator , who thinks he understands the true principles of liberty , for which he has ever been a zealous and unfhaken advocate , admits ...
• The loyalifts , no doubt , no more merit indifcrimate cenfure than any other body of men ; the tranflator , who thinks he understands the true principles of liberty , for which he has ever been a zealous and unfhaken advocate , admits ...
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... merit to belong to it . In a word , one must have education ; I will fay further , one must have lived with a certain number of mankind to know how to live well in one's own family . To abridge the queftion , Shall I content myself with ...
... merit to belong to it . In a word , one must have education ; I will fay further , one must have lived with a certain number of mankind to know how to live well in one's own family . To abridge the queftion , Shall I content myself with ...
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... merit attention and inquiry . I have sometimes " met with little practical treatifes called Ten Minutes Ad- " vice : I mean to give two hours advice - to that perfon " who may be in danger from infidels ; and if I shall satisfy " him ...
... merit attention and inquiry . I have sometimes " met with little practical treatifes called Ten Minutes Ad- " vice : I mean to give two hours advice - to that perfon " who may be in danger from infidels ; and if I shall satisfy " him ...
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Seite 272 - I retired, and stayed in the outer room to take him home. Upon his coming out, I asked him the result of his conversation: — 'His lordship...
Seite 99 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er! Such fate to suffering worth is giv'n, Who long with wants and woes has striv'n, By human pride or cunning driv'n To mis'ry's brink, Till wrench'd of ev'ry stay but Heav'n, He, ruin'd, sink!
Seite 96 - With future hope I oft would gaze Fond, on thy little early ways, Thy rudely caroll'd chiming phrase, In uncouth rhymes; Fir'd at the simple, artless lays Of other times. 'I saw thee seek the sounding shore, Delighted with the dashing roar; Or when the North his fleecy store Drove thro' the sky, I saw grim Nature's visage hoar Struck thy young eye.
Seite 9 - Brave without temerity, laborious without ambition, generous without prodigality, noble without pride, virtuous without severity ; he seems always to have confined himself within those limits, where the virtues, by clothing themselves in more lively, but more changeable and doubtful colours, may be mistaken for faults.
Seite 229 - Wherefore, if that ye could be content with that good and my poor person, I would be the merriest maiden on ground...
Seite 130 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Seite 9 - His stature is noble and lofty ; he is well made, and exactly proportioned, his physiognomy mild and agreeable, but such as to render it impossible to speak particularly of any of his features, so that in quitting him, you have only the recollection of a fine face. He has neither a grave nor a familiar air; his brow is sometimes marked with thought, but never with inquietude ; in inspiring respect, he inspires confidence, and his smile is always the smile of benevolence.