Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Том 34

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Pub. for J. Hinton., 1764
 

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Сторінка 359 - Mary, intituled An Act for the Relief of the Orphans and other Creditors of the City of London...
Сторінка 287 - ... sensation, till it grows up to the use of reason; how its infant faculties began to work, and how they brought forth and ripened all the various notions, opinions, and sentiments, which we find in ourselves when we come to be capable of reflection, this would be a treasure of natural history, which would probably give more light into the human faculties, than all the systems of philosophers about them since the beginning of the world.
Сторінка 285 - Conjectures and theories are the creatures of men, and will always be found very unlike the creatures of God. If we would know the works of God, we must consult themselves with attention and humility, without daring to add any thing of ours to what they declare. A just interpretation of nature is the only sound and orthodox philosophy : whatever we add of our own, is apocryphal, and of no authority.
Сторінка 268 - CHLOE'S near ; Fops may ufe the fame allufion; But the fhepherd is fincere. Hark to yonder milk-maid finging Chearly o'er the brimming pail ; Cowflips all around her fpringing Sweetly paint the golden vale. Never yet did courtly maiden Move fo fprightly, look fo fair ; Never breaft with jewels laden Pour a fong fo void of care. Would indulgent heav'n had granted Me fome rural damfel's part ! All the empire I had wanted Then had been my fhepherd's heart. Then...
Сторінка 202 - But when one recollects the perfect paradifc he had raifed around him, the hofpitality with which he lived, his great indulgence to his fervants, his charities to the indigent, and all done with an eftate not more than three hundred pounds a year, one mould rather be led to wonder that he left any thing behind him, than to blame his want of ceconomy.
Сторінка 46 - Was building caftles in the air, Goodly to look upon, and fair, But, on a bad foundation laid, Doom'd at return of Morn to fade. Pale STUDY, by the taper's light, Wearing away the watch of night, Sat reading, but, with o'ercharg'd head, Remember'd nothing that he read. Starving 'midft plenty, with a face Which might the Court of Famine grace, Ragged, I44 THE DUELLIST.
Сторінка 206 - ' 'Tis Strephon, on the mountain's brow, Has won my right good will; To him I gave my plighted vow, With him I'll climb the hill.
Сторінка 201 - HOBART (according to order) reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe...
Сторінка 287 - The labyrinth may be too intricate, and the thread too fine, to be traced through all its windings; but, if we stop where we can trace it no farther, and secure the ground we have gained, there is no harm done; a quicker eye may in time trace it farther.
Сторінка 328 - The wit, the hero, the philosopher, whom their tempers or their fortunes have hindered from intimate relations, die, without any other effect than that of adding a new topic to the conversation of the day.

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