The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 27Philological Society of London, 1795 - English literature |
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Page 67
... present , and probably ever will remain , unknown . The explosion took , place a few minutes before twelve o'clock , when providentially the overfeet and two boys had just left the works , and one of them was ringing the bell for dinner ...
... present , and probably ever will remain , unknown . The explosion took , place a few minutes before twelve o'clock , when providentially the overfeet and two boys had just left the works , and one of them was ringing the bell for dinner ...
Page 71
... present Internal and External Condition of France , Gisborne's Enquiry into the Duties of Man [ concluded ] , Table Talk ; or , Character , Anecdotes , & c . of Allen Lord Bathurst , Sir William Dunkin's Epitaph on the late Sir William ...
... present Internal and External Condition of France , Gisborne's Enquiry into the Duties of Man [ concluded ] , Table Talk ; or , Character , Anecdotes , & c . of Allen Lord Bathurst , Sir William Dunkin's Epitaph on the late Sir William ...
Page 105
... present state of things , Attornies of credit would not undertake the office on these terms ; knowing that if their private business went for a year into the hands of their competitors , much of it would never return to themselves . And ...
... present state of things , Attornies of credit would not undertake the office on these terms ; knowing that if their private business went for a year into the hands of their competitors , much of it would never return to themselves . And ...
Page 115
... present internal Government of France . Mr. Fox faid , that previous to the difcuffion of that part of the Loan which was intended as a fubfidy for the Emperor , he deemed it neceffary to move , that an account be given in of the fums ...
... present internal Government of France . Mr. Fox faid , that previous to the difcuffion of that part of the Loan which was intended as a fubfidy for the Emperor , he deemed it neceffary to move , that an account be given in of the fums ...
Page 117
... present in British pay . He moved alfo , that there be laid before the Houfe , a ftatement of all the foreign troops in British pay , who in the courfe of the laft campaign have been wounded , killed , miffing , or taken prifoners . He ...
... present in British pay . He moved alfo , that there be laid before the Houfe , a ftatement of all the foreign troops in British pay , who in the courfe of the laft campaign have been wounded , killed , miffing , or taken prifoners . He ...
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Page 313 - I had a letter from him a few days ago, wherein he tells me that my name was much oftener in the manuscript, but that the censor of books at Paris obliged him to strike it out.
Page 85 - I had now gained the point I aimed at : and saw, that his reason taught him (though he could not so express it) that what begins to be must have a cause, and that what is formed with regularity must have an intelligent cause. I therefore told him the name of the Great Being who made him and all the world ; concerning whose adorable nature I gave him such information as I thought he could in some measure comprehend. The lesson affected him greatly, and he never forgot either it, or the circumstance...
Page 113 - If this state of his country had been foretold to him, •would it not require all the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm, to make him believe it ? Fortunate man, he has lived to see it ! Fortunate indeed, if he lives to see nothing that shall vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day...
Page 85 - I carelessly, on coming to the place, I see it is so ; but there is nothing in this worth notice ; it is mere chance : and I went away. He followed me, and, taking hold of my coat, said, with some earnestness, It could not be mere chance ; for that somebody must have contrived matters so as to produce it.
Page 305 - I faw them {landing at the entrance of the fquare in front of the palace, each with his cap off, his hands being placed together elevated, and held even with his face. They remained upwards of half an hour in this attitude, their eyes fixed upon the apartment of the LAMA, and anxiety very vifibly depifted in their countenances.
Page 234 - Devonshire, on the Eve of the Epiphany, the farmer attended by his workmen, with a large pitcher of cyder, goes to the orchard, and there, encircling one of the best bearing trees, they drink the following toast three several times :
Page 30 - Her dancing was not hinder'd by the gout. Her poverty was glad; her heart content; Nor knew she what the spleen or vapours meant.
Page 225 - ... in India, confirmed what his fagacity had anticipated, that without principles to refer to, in a language familiar to the judges of the courts, adjudications...
Page 85 - Yes, said he, with firmness, I think so. Look at yourself, I replied, and consider your hands and fingers, your legs and feet, and other limbs; are they not regular in their appearance, and useful to you? He said, they were. Came you then hither, said I, by chance? No, he answered, that cannot be; something must have made me.
Page 377 - Lost, in which there is a nobleness both of contrivance and execution, that, though he affected to write in blank verse, without rhyme, and made many new and rough words...