The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 80A. Constable, 1844 |
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... late to see Garrick , but time enough for the house - warming fête at Chesterfield house , where the Duke of Hamilton loses a thousand pounds at faro , because he chooses to ogle Elizabeth Gunning instead of attend- ing to his cards . 6 ...
... late to see Garrick , but time enough for the house - warming fête at Chesterfield house , where the Duke of Hamilton loses a thousand pounds at faro , because he chooses to ogle Elizabeth Gunning instead of attend- ing to his cards . 6 ...
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... late Mr Wilberforce's Diary throws some doubt on the accuracy of this statement : The first time I was at Brookes's , scarcely knowing any one , I joined , from mere shyness , at the faro - table , where George Selwyn kept bank . A ...
... late Mr Wilberforce's Diary throws some doubt on the accuracy of this statement : The first time I was at Brookes's , scarcely knowing any one , I joined , from mere shyness , at the faro - table , where George Selwyn kept bank . A ...
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... late as 1769 , Lord Carlisle thus amusingly alludes to the sentiments of the former- I am very sorry to hear Mr Wood's family were splashed by the sea . People who never travel know very little what dangers we run . I dare say most of ...
... late as 1769 , Lord Carlisle thus amusingly alludes to the sentiments of the former- I am very sorry to hear Mr Wood's family were splashed by the sea . People who never travel know very little what dangers we run . I dare say most of ...
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... late Theodore Hook , were men who had one and all distinguished themselves in following the paths of litera- ture , while more than one of them had rendered himself eminent in the senate . Thus , the character which each maintained for ...
... late Theodore Hook , were men who had one and all distinguished themselves in following the paths of litera- ture , while more than one of them had rendered himself eminent in the senate . Thus , the character which each maintained for ...
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... late Duke of Queensberry , who lived in the most intimate friendship with him , told me that Selwyn was present at a public dinner with the Mayor and Corporation of Gloucester , in the year 1758 , when the intelligence arrived of our ...
... late Duke of Queensberry , who lived in the most intimate friendship with him , told me that Selwyn was present at a public dinner with the Mayor and Corporation of Gloucester , in the year 1758 , when the intelligence arrived of our ...
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Seite 274 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Seite 323 - The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper, is faith.
Seite 20 - Blair's Chronological and Historical Tables, from the Creation to the Present Time : With Additions and Corrections from the most authentic Writers ; including the Computation of St. Paul, as connecting the Period from the Exode to the Temple.
Seite 468 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Seite 15 - When we got to Temple Bar he stopped me, pointed to the heads upon it, and slily whispered me, ' Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur ISTIS.
Seite 19 - LAING.— THE CHRONICLE OF THE KINGS OF NORWAY, From the Earliest Period of the History of the Northern Sea Kings to the Middle of the Twelfth Century, commonly called The Heimskringla. Translated from the Icelandic of Snorro Sturleson, with Notes, and a Preliminary Discourse, by SAMUEL LAINO, Author of " Notes of a Traveller,
Seite 313 - When I mention religion, I mean the Christian religion ; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion ; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
Seite 149 - A GLACIER is AN IMPERFECT FLUID, OR A VISCOUS BODY. WHICH IS URGED DOWN SLOPES OF A CERTAIN INCLINATION BY THE MUTUAL PRESSURE OF ITS PARTS.
Seite 135 - The Glacier's cold and restless mass Moves onward day by day ; But I am he who bids it pass, Or with its ice delay.