The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register, Том 11

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R. Phillips, 1801
 

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Сторінка 315 - Or wak'd to extafy the living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the fpoils of Time did ne'er unroll ; Chill Penury reprefs'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the foul.
Сторінка 209 - The ingenious and learned Dr. John Clephane has given an excellent account of this very ancient preparation in the firft vol; of the Medical Obfervations and Inquiries. It is mentioned, he obferves; with very little variation from the above receipt, by Galen in the fecond century; by...
Сторінка 445 - May, the new premier brought in a bill, " to remove all doubts relative to the eligibility of persons in holy orders to sit in the commons* house of parliament.
Сторінка 327 - Sometimes also in the merely civil government, there be more than one soul ; as when the power of levying money, which is the nutritive faculty, has depended on a general assembly ; the power of conduct and command, which is the motive faculty, on one man ; and the power of making laws, which is the rational faculty, on the accidental consent, not only of those two, but also of a third...
Сторінка 337 - multipliers" seem to have been very busy deceiving people at the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries...
Сторінка 306 - ... and we never regard it. The eccentric intuitions of genius too often yield the soul to the wild effervescence of desires, always unbounded, and sometimes equally dangerous to the repose of others as fatal to its own. No wonder then if virtue herself be sometimes lost in the blaze of kindling animation, or that the calm monitions of reason are not invariably found sufficient to fetter an imagination, which scorns the narrow limits and restrictions that would chain it to the level of ordinary minds.
Сторінка 143 - I thank you, good brother," replied Case; " let me have all the fools, and you are heartily welcome to the rest of the prastice.
Сторінка 444 - One of these states^ (added he,) that if any clergyman attempted to cast out devils unlawfully, such person should be deposed. Now for example, Mr. Speaker, if I had attempted to cast the devil out of this House, I must have been deposed, and of course been deemed eligible. But in this case my only crime is my innocence — my only guilt, that of not having scandalized my order. I feel myself, Sir, exactly in the situation of the girl who applied for reception into the Magdalen.
Сторінка 78 - As a further proof of the efteem in which the India Company held Sir George Staunton, they appointed his fon, who accompanied him in the...
Сторінка 23 - Fair is this tree, and how beautiful and ravishing its look ! ' And the holy angel Raphael, who was with me, answered and said to me, ' This is the tree of wisdom of which thy forefathers, thy hoary first parent, and thy aged first mother ate, and found the knowledge of wisdom, and their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and were driven out of the garden.

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