New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 4Henry Colburn, 1815 |
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... English beggar , died at the age of 150 years . But I may spare myself the trouble of enumerating any more instances , by referring the reader to Sir John Sinclair's work on Health and Longevity , where they will be found adduced by ...
... English beggar , died at the age of 150 years . But I may spare myself the trouble of enumerating any more instances , by referring the reader to Sir John Sinclair's work on Health and Longevity , where they will be found adduced by ...
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... English , of that decent respect which is discovered in the preserving of those last remembrances of mortality , the tombs of their ancestors . Most nations that I have read of exhibit a devoted attention to these duties , the Chinese ...
... English , of that decent respect which is discovered in the preserving of those last remembrances of mortality , the tombs of their ancestors . Most nations that I have read of exhibit a devoted attention to these duties , the Chinese ...
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... English ode , has been adjudged to Mr. Smirke , scholar of St. John's Col- lege : subject , " Wallace . " In a convocation held on the 14th July , a grace passed the Senate to grant three hundred guineas from the univer- sity chest , in ...
... English ode , has been adjudged to Mr. Smirke , scholar of St. John's Col- lege : subject , " Wallace . " In a convocation held on the 14th July , a grace passed the Senate to grant three hundred guineas from the univer- sity chest , in ...
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... English Philology , in a A Tour in Istria and Carniola , & c . & c . in spring 1814 , by an English Mer- chant , is nearly ready for publication . Mr. E. V. UTTERSON is preparing for publication Select Pieces of Early Po- pular Poetry ...
... English Philology , in a A Tour in Istria and Carniola , & c . & c . in spring 1814 , by an English Mer- chant , is nearly ready for publication . Mr. E. V. UTTERSON is preparing for publication Select Pieces of Early Po- pular Poetry ...
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... English and German . It forms a quarto volume . The great utility of which this work is likely to prove to per- sons engaged in commerce , will be evi- dent , when it is stated that it contains , in a concise form , every information ne ...
... English and German . It forms a quarto volume . The great utility of which this work is likely to prove to per- sons engaged in commerce , will be evi- dent , when it is stated that it contains , in a concise form , every information ne ...
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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.
Page 543 - The High Contracting Powers, sincerely desiring to give effect to the measures on which they deliberated at the Congress of Vienna, relative to the complete and universal abolition of the Slave Trade, and having, each in their respective Dominions, prohibited without restriction their Colonies and Subjects from taking any part whatever in this Traffic...
Page 63 - ... posted on a height behind the village, was repulsed by the enemy's cavalry in repeated attacks. Our infantry posted behind Ligny, though forced to retreat, did not suffer itself to be discouraged, either by being surprised by the enemy in the darkness, a circumstance which exaggerates in the mind of man the dangers to which he finds himself exposed, or by the idea of seeing itself surrounded on all sides. Formed in masses, it coolly repulsed all the attacks of the cavalry, and retreated in good...
Page 353 - Minutes of the Evidence taken before the Committee appointed by the House of Commons to Inquire into the State of Mendicity and Vagrancy in the Metropolis and its Neighbourhood.
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.