London Review of English and Foreign Literature, Volume 2Cox and Bigg, 1776 - Bibliography |
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... Common and Statute Laws of the Realm ibid . Confiderations upon the different Modes of finding Recruits for the ibid . army An Addrefs to the Public on a Cafe of unlawful Imprisonment Memoirs of the Life of John Glover 554 ibid ...
... Common and Statute Laws of the Realm ibid . Confiderations upon the different Modes of finding Recruits for the ibid . army An Addrefs to the Public on a Cafe of unlawful Imprisonment Memoirs of the Life of John Glover 554 ibid ...
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... common in this country ! and therefore there is not really fo much in dispute between us as may be at firft imagined . " It is not worth while to contend with him whether a few indi- viduals might not perhaps try the experiment , nor ...
... common in this country ! and therefore there is not really fo much in dispute between us as may be at firft imagined . " It is not worth while to contend with him whether a few indi- viduals might not perhaps try the experiment , nor ...
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... common both to them and the barbarians ; and with them the expofing of infants , the combats of men with wild beasts , and of men with men in the gladiatorial fcenes , were fpectacles of delight and feftivity . It has been thought ...
... common both to them and the barbarians ; and with them the expofing of infants , the combats of men with wild beasts , and of men with men in the gladiatorial fcenes , were fpectacles of delight and feftivity . It has been thought ...
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... common paftime and amufement , without any moral , political , or religious intention ; and as it is now followed and practised amongst us . " " We will now enquire how matters were conducted at Rome ; where , as the Romans were prone ...
... common paftime and amufement , without any moral , political , or religious intention ; and as it is now followed and practised amongst us . " " We will now enquire how matters were conducted at Rome ; where , as the Romans were prone ...
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... common error , of which I have too much reason to be apprehenfive , viz . that of mistaking a fondness of my fubject for a knowledge of it , I again promife to ftand corrected , and to fpare at least the Public , if not myfelf , any ...
... common error , of which I have too much reason to be apprehenfive , viz . that of mistaking a fondness of my fubject for a knowledge of it , I again promife to ftand corrected , and to fpare at least the Public , if not myfelf , any ...
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Page 259 - My birth-day was ominous to my poor father, who was, the day after our arrival, with many other brave officers broke, and sent adrift into the wide world with a wife and two children...
Page 260 - ... which it pleased God to give him full measure. He was, in his temper, somewhat rapid and hasty, but of a kindly sweet disposition, void of all design ; and so innocent in his own intentions that he suspected no one ; so that you might, have cheated him ten times in a day, if nine had not been sufficient for your purpose.
Page 74 - Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigour of his authority in his centre is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Page 309 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christopher's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 153 - The rocks are high, bold, and grotesque; and the valley is divided by a river, along the banks of which are extended meadows and pastures of a perpetual verdure.
Page 263 - If my enemies knew, that by this rage of abuse, and ill-will, they were effectually serving the interests both of myself, and works, they would be more quiet — but it has been the fate of my betters, who have found, that the way to fame, is like the way to Heaven — through much tribulation...
Page 484 - The misery of gaols is not half their evil ; they are filled with every corruption which poverty and wickedness can generate between them; with all the shameless and profligate enormities that can be produced by the impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair. In a prison the awe of the...
Page 516 - Portugal into the moft abject vaflalage ever experienced by a conquered nation. While the grandees of Portugal were blind to the ruin which impended over them, Camoens beheld it with a pungency of grief which haftened his exit. In one of his letters he has thefe remarkable words, " Em Jim accaberey a vida, e verram todos que fny afeicoada a minho patria, &c.
Page 425 - Thy father made our yoke grievous : now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.
Page 260 - It was in this parish, during our stay, that I had that wonderful escape in falling through a mill-race whilst the mill was going, and of being taken up unhurt : the story is incredible, but known for truth in all that part of Ireland, where hundreds of the common people flocked to see me.