The Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, المجلد 2 |
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They respected , however , her sex ; and she was just fifteen years old when , still a virgin , innocent , and bashful , she was sold to Kien - Hang , the emperor of Ava , the Light of the Lights who illuminate the East .
They respected , however , her sex ; and she was just fifteen years old when , still a virgin , innocent , and bashful , she was sold to Kien - Hang , the emperor of Ava , the Light of the Lights who illuminate the East .
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4 4 expatiate upon the merits of this illustrious traveller , or enter into details respecting a performance , upon which all impartial and intelligent men never had but one opinion . Suffice it to state , that the daring , ardent ...
4 4 expatiate upon the merits of this illustrious traveller , or enter into details respecting a performance , upon which all impartial and intelligent men never had but one opinion . Suffice it to state , that the daring , ardent ...
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It is not that I think the circumstance , even if true , of much importance , as the merits of Bruce rest upon grounds too stable to be shaken by what is now a mere speculative opinion respecting the claim of one of two branches of a ...
It is not that I think the circumstance , even if true , of much importance , as the merits of Bruce rest upon grounds too stable to be shaken by what is now a mere speculative opinion respecting the claim of one of two branches of a ...
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The Ptolemy who entered Ethiopia with an army , and who , of all men , could procure the most authentic information respecting the Sacred River , sought these sources , not in Lybia , nor even in Nubia , but somewhere near the Red Sea ...
The Ptolemy who entered Ethiopia with an army , and who , of all men , could procure the most authentic information respecting the Sacred River , sought these sources , not in Lybia , nor even in Nubia , but somewhere near the Red Sea ...
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It is only upon this or some such grounds , that any thing like truth can be extracted from the accounts of Ptolemy respecting Meroe , or of the rivers Astaberas and Astapus that bound it . it is perfectly evident that the Mareb , which ...
It is only upon this or some such grounds , that any thing like truth can be extracted from the accounts of Ptolemy respecting Meroe , or of the rivers Astaberas and Astapus that bound it . it is perfectly evident that the Mareb , which ...
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الصفحة 155 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
الصفحة 25 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
الصفحة 43 - To be the true Church militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery, And prove their doctrine orthodox, By apostolic blows and knocks; Call fire, and sword, and desolation, A godly, thorough reformation. Which always must be carried on, And still be doing, never done; As if religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended...
الصفحة 66 - ... around him : he thought only of his subject : his genius warmed and kindled as he went on. He darted fire into his audience. Torrents of impetuous and irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and conviction.
الصفحة 99 - Every body knows that ants come out of their holes in the day-time, and expose to the sun the corn which they keep under ground in the night : those who have seen ant-hillocks, have easily perceived those small heaps of corn about their nests. What surprised me at first was, that my ants never brought out their corn, but in the night when the moon did shine...
الصفحة 39 - They both complimented me, in the highest terms, on my essay, which, they said, was a book they always kept by them; and the king said he had one copy of it at Kew, and another in town, and immediately went and took it down from a shelf. I found it was the second edition. 'I never stole a book but one,' said his Majesty, ' and that was yours (speaking to me) ; I stole it from the queen, to give it to Lord Hertford to read.
الصفحة 98 - ... and from the walls, which, together with the earth formerly imbibed with water, made a kind of a dry and barren soil. That place lying to the south, and out of the...
الصفحة 58 - Essay, which they said was a book they always kept by them : and the King said he had one copy of it at Kew, and another in town, and immediately went and took it down from a shelf. I found it was the second edition. ' I never stole a book but once,' said his Majesty, ' and that was yours,' (speaking to me) : ' I stole it from the Queen, to give it to Lord Hertford to read.
الصفحة 61 - Pilkington having inquired of her where she gained this prodigious knowledge, she modestly replied, that when she could spare time from her needlework, to which she was closely kept by her mother, she had received some little instruction from the minister of the parish.
الصفحة 99 - I did not know it by experience, is, that those ants knew, some days after, that they had nothing to fear, and began to lay out their corn in the sun. However, I perceived...