The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, المجلد 5Published for the proprietors, 1836 |
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... French leagues . The limits of this country were so little known in the last century , that , in 1689 , when it was re- ported , that the Chinese and the Russians were at war , and that in order to terminate their differ- ences , the ...
... French leagues . The limits of this country were so little known in the last century , that , in 1689 , when it was re- ported , that the Chinese and the Russians were at war , and that in order to terminate their differ- ences , the ...
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... French language , for in English we make no such distinctions in the name of these people , but always call them Russians . try , and a body of religious crusaders , called port glaives , or sword - bearers , who were afterwards ...
... French language , for in English we make no such distinctions in the name of these people , but always call them Russians . try , and a body of religious crusaders , called port glaives , or sword - bearers , who were afterwards ...
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... French lan- guage , had not his great modesty determined him to resign the task to me , as will evidently appear from his own letters on this subject , which I have deposited in the public library of Geneva . SMOLENSKO . Westward of the ...
... French lan- guage , had not his great modesty determined him to resign the task to me , as will evidently appear from his own letters on this subject , which I have deposited in the public library of Geneva . SMOLENSKO . Westward of the ...
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... French leagues ; and from southern Tartary , which serves as its boundary to the Fro- zen Sea , about four hundred , which is the least breadth of the Russian empire . This country produces the richest furs ; and this occasioned the ...
... French leagues ; and from southern Tartary , which serves as its boundary to the Fro- zen Sea , about four hundred , which is the least breadth of the Russian empire . This country produces the richest furs ; and this occasioned the ...
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... French livres , exclu- sive of tributes in kind . The moderate sum was at that time sufficient to maintain three hundred and thirty - nine thousand five hundred , as well sea as land forces : but both the revenues and troops are ...
... French livres , exclu- sive of tributes in kind . The moderate sum was at that time sufficient to maintain three hundred and thirty - nine thousand five hundred , as well sea as land forces : but both the revenues and troops are ...
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الصفحة 17 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home : Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
الصفحة 16 - Grace, And calls forth all the Wonders of her Face ; Sees by Degrees a purer Blush arise, And keener Lightnings quicken in her Eyes.
الصفحة 16 - But chiefly Love— to Love an Altar built, Of twelve vast French Romances, neatly gilt. There lay three garters, half a pair of gloves; And all the trophies of his former loves...
الصفحة 19 - On various tempers act by various ways, Make some take physic, others scribble plays; Who cause the proud their visits to delay, And send the godly in a pet to pray. A nymph there is, that all thy power disdains, And thousands more in equal mirth maintains. But oh! if e'er thy gnome could spoil a grace, Or raise a pimple on a beauteous face, Like citron-waters matrons...
الصفحة 16 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if Belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all. This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourish'd two locks which graceful hung behind In equal curls, and well conspired to deck With...
الصفحة 16 - Beaux banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive. This erring mortals levity may call ; Oh blind to truth ! the sylphs contrive it all.
الصفحة 86 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
الصفحة 17 - Lock ; Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock. " To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note, We trust th...