The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 27Tobias Smollett R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row, 1799 |
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Pagina 4
... continued noife of hammers , the activity of thofe arms which give impulfion to fo many machines ; -every thing here prefents a spec- tacle as new as interesting . Under the feds where the finished articles are depofited , we faw ...
... continued noife of hammers , the activity of thofe arms which give impulfion to fo many machines ; -every thing here prefents a spec- tacle as new as interesting . Under the feds where the finished articles are depofited , we faw ...
Pagina 24
... continued entire , pro- vided its coating be immediate . M. Humboldt more particularly confiders the circumstances in which fresh animal matter will excite galvanism , and ascer- tains the greatest distance , at which he has been able ...
... continued entire , pro- vided its coating be immediate . M. Humboldt more particularly confiders the circumstances in which fresh animal matter will excite galvanism , and ascer- tains the greatest distance , at which he has been able ...
Pagina 40
... continued . fibres . ' From these experiments , the internal structure of the optic nerve appears to be made up in the following manner : At its origin from the brain it confifts of thirty or forty fafci- culi or bundles of extremely ...
... continued . fibres . ' From these experiments , the internal structure of the optic nerve appears to be made up in the following manner : At its origin from the brain it confifts of thirty or forty fafci- culi or bundles of extremely ...
Pagina 41
... continued ; " and yet this would be neceffary , if we were to take another ftep in the inquiry . Mr. Home may indeed mean , that no pulpy matter is interpofed ; but , if this be his meaning , the expreffion is incorrect . II . The ...
... continued ; " and yet this would be neceffary , if we were to take another ftep in the inquiry . Mr. Home may indeed mean , that no pulpy matter is interpofed ; but , if this be his meaning , the expreffion is incorrect . II . The ...
Pagina 42
... continued across , at the part where the two fkulls joined , fo that each brain was invefted , in the ufual way , by its own proper coverings ; but the dura mater , which covered the cerebrum of the upper brain , adhered firmly to the ...
... continued across , at the part where the two fkulls joined , fo that each brain was invefted , in the ufual way , by its own proper coverings ; but the dura mater , which covered the cerebrum of the upper brain , adhered firmly to the ...
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Pagina 160 - Tyrants! in vain ye trace the wizard ring; In vain ye limit Mind's unwearied spring : What! can ye lull the winged winds asleep, Arrest the rolling world, or chain the deep? No!
Pagina 159 - He comes ! dread Brama shakes the sunless sky With murmuring wrath, and thunders from on high! Heaven's fiery horse, beneath his warrior form, Paws the light clouds, and gallops on the storm! Wide waves his flickering sword, his bright arms glow Like summer suns, and light the world below! Earth, and her trembling isles in Ocean's bed Are shook, and Nature rocks beneath his tread.
Pagina 158 - Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus with delight we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus from afar each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been, And every form that Fancy can repair From dark oblivion glows divinely there.
Pagina 94 - So that to send an uneducated child into the world is injurious to the rest of mankind ; it is little better than to turn out a mad dog, or a wild beast into the streets.
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