The Critical Review, Or, Annals of LiteratureTobias Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1803 - English literature |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 82
Page 6
... occasion . I do not mean to compromise the matter with those who advise the use of the bark at the commencement , or in an early period of the disease , for the purpose of preventing mortification ; I only wish to recommend a cautious ...
... occasion . I do not mean to compromise the matter with those who advise the use of the bark at the commencement , or in an early period of the disease , for the purpose of preventing mortification ; I only wish to recommend a cautious ...
Page 17
... occasion to suppose the source of their complaints was affectation , and not real affliction . His charity was exemplary and singular . He received many objects into his own house ; and bore all the discomfort which their peevishness ...
... occasion to suppose the source of their complaints was affectation , and not real affliction . His charity was exemplary and singular . He received many objects into his own house ; and bore all the discomfort which their peevishness ...
Page 31
... occasion to practise in the plague , the propriety of being acquainted with a disease , which has de- manded so much attention , and bears so strong an analogy to com- plaints which every day fall under their care , is too apparent to ...
... occasion to practise in the plague , the propriety of being acquainted with a disease , which has de- manded so much attention , and bears so strong an analogy to com- plaints which every day fall under their care , is too apparent to ...
Page 34
... occasion . We witnessed once an epidemic peripneumony , where , about the fourth day , diarrhoea , which checked the expectoration , and sunk the strength , usually came on . No astringent , but opium , was powerful enough to stop it ...
... occasion . We witnessed once an epidemic peripneumony , where , about the fourth day , diarrhoea , which checked the expectoration , and sunk the strength , usually came on . No astringent , but opium , was powerful enough to stop it ...
Page 50
... occasion for the entire action of it . The hero's expressions of regard for her are energetic , indeed , but brief in the extreme ; and are summed up in half a dozen werds . -So , Book I. 1. 167 . -Εγω δ ' ολιγον τε φίλον το Ερχομ ...
... occasion for the entire action of it . The hero's expressions of regard for her are energetic , indeed , but brief in the extreme ; and are summed up in half a dozen werds . -So , Book I. 1. 167 . -Εγω δ ' ολιγον τε φίλον το Ερχομ ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acid admit æra æther ancient animal appears arguments army attention barytes British carbonic acid cause character circumstances colour commerce common conduct consequence considerable considered contains Cronus degree disease earth effect Egypt employed English equally examined fact former France French glucine Great-Britain heat hypothesis inflammation interesting John Playfair king labour language latter Lehi less lord lord Bute lord Chatham lord Cornwallis manner marine marine architecture means Memoir ment merit metals nation nature Neptunian theories neral never notice object observations occasion opinion original oxyd paper particularly passage peculiar perhaps period person phænomena possessed present principles probably produced remarks render respect Russia scarcely scrofulous seems ships singular sion spect spirit strata style substance sufficient supposed thou tion translation truth vedas volume whole writer yttria
Popular passages
Page 363 - And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Page 257 - Eske's fair streams that run, O'er airy steep, through copsewood deep, Impervious to the sun ; There the rapt poet's step may rove And yield the muse the day, There Beauty led by timid Love May shun the tell-tale ray, — From that fair dome where suit is paid By blast of bugle free, To Auchendinny's hazel glade And haunted Woodhouselee.
Page 364 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 432 - ... pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
Page 252 - Brownie does not drudge from the hope of recompense. On the contrary, so delicate is his attachment that the offer of reward, but particularly of food, infallibly occasions his disappearance for ever.
Page 268 - Whatever merit these Discourses may have, must be imputed in a great measure to the education which I may be said to have had under Dr. Johnson. I do not mean to say, though it certainly would be to the credit of these Discourses if I could say it with truth, that he contributed even a single sentiment to them; but he qualified my mind to think justly.
Page 153 - Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou Moon in the valley of Ajalon.
Page 257 - O'er airy steep, through copsewood deep, Impervious to the sun. There the rapt poet's step may rove, And yield the muse the day ; There Beauty, led by timid Love, May shun the tell-tale ray; From that fair dome, where suit is paid By blast of bugle free, To Auchendinny's hazel glade, And haunted Woodhouselee. Who knows not Melville's beechy grove, And Roslin's rocky glen, Dalkeith, which all the virtues love, And classic Hawthornden?
Page 296 - ... this mass of dust which was advancing from the southwest, but we had hardly entered the river when it began to swell all at once as if it would overflow its channel, the waves passed over our heads, and we felt the bottom heave up under our feet : our clothes were conveyed away along with the shore itself, which seemed to be carried off by the whirlwind which had now reached us. We were compelled to leave the water, and our wet and naked bodies being beat upon by a storm of...
Page 432 - He made an administration, so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified Mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white...