The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Band 67Tobias Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1789 Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue." |
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Seite 32 - The adroitness it showed in shearing off the wings of the flies, which were always rejected, was worthy of observation, and pleased me much. Insects seemed to be most acceptable, though it did not refuse raw flesh when offered; so that the notion that bats go down...
Seite 346 - A bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without : No tool had he that wrought, no knife to cut, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join ; his little beak was all, And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand, With every implement and means of art, And twenty years...
Seite 202 - As to Jortin, whether I look back to his verse, to his prose, to his critical, or to his theological works, there are few authors to whom I am so much indebted for rational entertainment, or for solid instruction.
Seite 27 - Mounte f or any other whatsoever in the army, on account of the great danger that may thereby happen to the whole army, which God forbid...
Seite 349 - And by his side a naked swerd hanging : And up he rideth to the highe bord. In all the halle ne was ther spoke a word, For mervaille of this knight ; him to behold Ful besily they waiten yong and old.
Seite 395 - ... wherein the extremes approach nearer to each other, than the middle does to either. I may add that an unbounded respect for the Fathers was, till the commencement of the sixteenth century, the prevalent sentiment in Christendom. Since that time, their authority has declined apace, and is, at present, in many places, totally annihilated. I own that, in my opinion, they of former generations were in one extreme, and we of the present are in another.
Seite 431 - The motive for this is, that there may be no family connexion nor combinations ; no associations that might prove injurious to the king's unlimited power. Hence each individual is detached and unconnected, and having no relative for whom he is interested, is solicitous only for his own safety, which he consults by the most abject submission. Paternal affection, and filial love, therefore, can scarcely be said to exist. Mothers, instead of cherishing, endeavour to suppress those attachments for their...
Seite 51 - I, represents the attitude in which a boy should always place himself when he begins to speak. He should rest the whole weight of his body on the right leg; the other; just touching the ground, at the distance at which it would naturally fall, if lifted up to show that the body does not bear upon it.
Seite 411 - ... the two governments it regards. Do you not know that they have suffered more in the war than all the provinces of your empire together; that many of their inhabitants have...
Seite 81 - The blood which passes from the lungs to the heart by the pulmonary vein contains more absolute heat than that which passes from the heart to the lungs by the pulmonary artery.