Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Том 76,Частина 1

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A. Dodd and A. Smith, 1806
The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.
 

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Сторінка 396 - No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness; of having taught a succession of writers to bring elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness; and, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having "turned many to righteousness.
Сторінка 364 - Majesty's Treasury, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.
Сторінка 347 - ... this change from the one number to the other, without any thing in the principles of language to account for it, is frequent, in speaking of God, in the Hebrew tongue, but unexampled in the case of any other being.
Сторінка 347 - Intent that the Living may know, that the moft High ruleth in the Kingdom of Men, and giveth it to whomfoever he will, and fetteth up over it the bafeft of Men.
Сторінка 74 - Baron Nelson of the Nile and of Burnham Thorpe, in the County of Norfolk...
Сторінка 300 - He stablishes the strong, restores the weak, Reclaims the wanderer, binds the broken heart, And, armed himself in panoply complete Of heavenly temper, furnishes with arms, Bright as his own, and trains, by every rule Of holy discipline, to glorious war, The sacramental host of God's elect ! Are all such teachers?
Сторінка 261 - Grant among the wounded ; but the heroic spirit of this Officer was not subdued by his misfortune, and he continued to lead his men to glory, as long as an enemy was opposed to his Majesty's 72d regiment.
Сторінка 338 - ... largest. Every ear of wheat is composed of a number of cups placed alternately on each side of the straw ; the lower ones contain, according to circumstances, three or four grains, nearly equal in size, but towards the top of the ear, where the quantity of nutriment is diminished by the more ample...
Сторінка 138 - He was easy of access to all, and entered very freely into discourse, though laconic in his advice and in his answers. He employed four secretaries to write and copy his letters, and these were to be in readiness as soon as he left his room. He called them neither John, Walter, nor William, but his good-for-nothings, to whom he gave his letters, after he had read them, to copy or to do anything else which he might command.
Сторінка 55 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.

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