New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 4Henry Colburn, 1815 |
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... readers . However just the unknown author's sati- rical reflexions on other subjects may be , I fancy that all ... reader the desire of contemplating the scene on the spot , actually tended to deter him from enter- taining the bare ...
... readers . However just the unknown author's sati- rical reflexions on other subjects may be , I fancy that all ... reader the desire of contemplating the scene on the spot , actually tended to deter him from enter- taining the bare ...
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... readers , one to do justice to a deserving individual ( for the recollection of former good deeds should not be effaced by subsequent errors ) who is undoubtedly the father of the Artist's Fund for ge- neral relief , like the Literary ...
... readers , one to do justice to a deserving individual ( for the recollection of former good deeds should not be effaced by subsequent errors ) who is undoubtedly the father of the Artist's Fund for ge- neral relief , like the Literary ...
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... readers if detached , but important facts , on that subject should be recorded in your pages , for the benefit of those whose pursuits and occupations afford them but little op- portunity of gathering information from scattered sources ...
... readers if detached , but important facts , on that subject should be recorded in your pages , for the benefit of those whose pursuits and occupations afford them but little op- portunity of gathering information from scattered sources ...
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... readers who wish to try the experiment , may do so merely by drawing eight lines upon a sheet of ele- phant paper , or even upon a smaller scale by reducing the proportions equal- ly ; and it will then be seen , that the surplus of F ...
... readers who wish to try the experiment , may do so merely by drawing eight lines upon a sheet of ele- phant paper , or even upon a smaller scale by reducing the proportions equal- ly ; and it will then be seen , that the surplus of F ...
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... readers moderation in eat- ing and drinking as a medicinal virtue , against which no one can transgress without subjecting himself to all the per- nicious effects just enumerated . Unob- structed digestion , as we have seen , is an ...
... readers moderation in eat- ing and drinking as a medicinal virtue , against which no one can transgress without subjecting himself to all the per- nicious effects just enumerated . Unob- structed digestion , as we have seen , is an ...
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Page 131 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.
Page 385 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Page 545 - Ministers, for the purpose of consulting upon Their common interests, and for the consideration of the measures which at each of those periods shall be considered the most salutary for the repose and prosperity of Nations, and for the maintenance of the Peace of Europe.
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Page 235 - Yet if perchance remember'd, still disdain you 'em More than you scorn the savages of yore, Who painted their bare limbs, but not with gore. is a most extraordinary character. He dines every morning about nine. He sleeps almost naked ; he affects a perfect indifference to heat and cold ; and quits his chamber, which approaches to suffocation, in order to review his troops, in a thin linen jacket, while the thermometer of Reaumur is at ten degrees below freezing. His manners correspond with his humours....
Page 545 - This State shall be placed under the immediate and exclusive protection of his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, his heirs and successors.
Page 543 - May 1814, as well as of the Additional Articles of that Treaty, signed between Great Britain and France, desiring to render more efficacious the stipulations made thereby, and having determined by two separate Conventions, the line to be pursued on each side for that purpose, the said two Conventions, as annexed to the present Treaty, shall, in order to secure the complete execution of the above-mentioned Articles, have the same force and effect as if the same were inserted, word for word, herein.
Page 319 - Colonel Hammond to wait upon you, who was taken by a mistake whilst we lay before this Garrison, whom God safely delivered to us, to our great joy ; but to his loss of almost all he had, which the Enemy took from him.