The Scots Magazine, Volume 44Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1782 - English literature |
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... force , to his fucceffor , were objects which tended powerfully to difpofe him to the prefervation , fo far as it could be pro- perly and wifely done , of the public tranquillity . But no motives , however cogent , could juftify to him ...
... force , to his fucceffor , were objects which tended powerfully to difpofe him to the prefervation , fo far as it could be pro- perly and wifely done , of the public tranquillity . But no motives , however cogent , could juftify to him ...
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... force of that ar ticle , by their natural inclination to the Porte ; otherwise they would have confi . dered their conceflion in a still worfe light . To have thrown that whole coun- try , fituated as it is , with its own and the ...
... force of that ar ticle , by their natural inclination to the Porte ; otherwise they would have confi . dered their conceflion in a still worfe light . To have thrown that whole coun- try , fituated as it is , with its own and the ...
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... force home to the Earl of Sandwich ; because that minifter had advised his Sovereign to the naval measures that had been pursued , and was , confequently , refponible for them . It was no excufe in him to fay , that he had received his ...
... force home to the Earl of Sandwich ; because that minifter had advised his Sovereign to the naval measures that had been pursued , and was , confequently , refponible for them . It was no excufe in him to fay , that he had received his ...
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... force was fuperior to the enemy ; but what was his difappoint ment , what must have been his indigna- tion , at finding the enemy at fea with twenty - feven fail of the line ? The Firft Lord of the Admiralty had acted uni- formly as if ...
... force was fuperior to the enemy ; but what was his difappoint ment , what must have been his indigna- tion , at finding the enemy at fea with twenty - feven fail of the line ? The Firft Lord of the Admiralty had acted uni- formly as if ...
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... force during ing up for fresh inftructions ; and upon the prefent war , but more particularly the admiralty's returning in answer , that during the year 1781. " the combined fleet was not at sea , and that he had been deceived ; and ...
... force during ing up for fresh inftructions ; and upon the prefent war , but more particularly the admiralty's returning in answer , that during the year 1781. " the combined fleet was not at sea , and that he had been deceived ; and ...
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Page 252 - The cloister facing the south is covered with vines, and would have been proper for an orange-house, and the other for myrtles or other more common greens, and had, I doubt not, been cast for that purpose, if this piece of gardening had been then in as much vogue as it is now.
Page 63 - His descriptions of extended scenes and general effects bring before us the whole magnificence of Nature, whether pleasing or dreadful. The gaiety of Spring, the splendour of Summer, the tranquillity of Autumn, and the horror of Winter take in their turns possession of the mind.
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Page 173 - Some dry the black'ning clusters in the sun. Others to tread the liquid harvest join, The groaning presses foam with floods of wine. Here are the vines in early flow'r descry'd, Here grapes discolour'd on the sunny side, And there in Autumn's richest purple dy'd. ' Beds of all various herbs, for ever green, In beauteous order terminate the scene.
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