The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on Subjects of Literature, Science, and Morals; Biographical and Historical Sketches; Critical Remarks on Language; with Occasional Reviews ..., Volume 2W. Hilliard., 1806 |
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Pagina 10
... tion . His writings are certainly of much importance in es- tablishing the topography of the Holy Land . Next to him is Eusebius , in a tract " De locis Hebraicis . " The work is extremely valuable , because written by a native of ...
... tion . His writings are certainly of much importance in es- tablishing the topography of the Holy Land . Next to him is Eusebius , in a tract " De locis Hebraicis . " The work is extremely valuable , because written by a native of ...
Pagina 44
... tion , and dying , as every body thought , a martyr in the " cause , to which I had devoted myself ; let him imagine , I say , my feelings upon hearing the confused noise of the prayers of a multitude of people , who were passing by in ...
... tion , and dying , as every body thought , a martyr in the " cause , to which I had devoted myself ; let him imagine , I say , my feelings upon hearing the confused noise of the prayers of a multitude of people , who were passing by in ...
Pagina 46
... tion , never before unfolded to the view of the world ; he must have felt that enthusiasm , which has been emphatical ly called the inspiration of poetry . And would not a writ er of this description express his own vivid conceptions in ...
... tion , never before unfolded to the view of the world ; he must have felt that enthusiasm , which has been emphatical ly called the inspiration of poetry . And would not a writ er of this description express his own vivid conceptions in ...
Pagina 48
... tion to different objects . Those , who have been esteemed the most learned grammarians , are those , who have with the most care investigated the foundations of ancient languages ; and Horne Tooke in particular has thought it expedient ...
... tion to different objects . Those , who have been esteemed the most learned grammarians , are those , who have with the most care investigated the foundations of ancient languages ; and Horne Tooke in particular has thought it expedient ...
Pagina 49
... tion of the ancients . And , although the idiom of our lan- guage would not permit that imitation to the extent , to which they strove to carry it ; yet , whatever excellence their style possessed , it is evident from what source it was ...
... tion of the ancients . And , although the idiom of our lan- guage would not permit that imitation to the extent , to which they strove to carry it ; yet , whatever excellence their style possessed , it is evident from what source it was ...
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Pagina 89 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Pagina 9 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Pagina 89 - WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? WHAT constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride, Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No, — men, high-minded men...
Pagina 241 - English : and have endeavoured to make him speak that kind of English which he would have spoken had he lived in England, and had written to this age.
Pagina 91 - This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety. Glad then, as miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour...
Pagina 76 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Pagina 9 - And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Pagina 90 - O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend discretion like a vapor sinks ; And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks.
Pagina 8 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Pagina 91 - Nature, it seemed, ashamed of her mistake, Would throw their land away at duck and drake, Therefore necessity, that first made kings, Something like government among them brings. For, as with...