The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, المجلد 5Published for the proprietors, 1836 |
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... least populous state in Europe , there may be reckoned forty persons to every square mile , and in Russia not above five . We shall see in the second chapter , whether this minister was mistaken . Marshal Vauban , the greatest of en ...
... least populous state in Europe , there may be reckoned forty persons to every square mile , and in Russia not above five . We shall see in the second chapter , whether this minister was mistaken . Marshal Vauban , the greatest of en ...
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... least traces of commerce revolutions of this nature may easily happen to a barren country seeing they are so soon brought about in the most fruitful provinces . The famous Swedish prisoner , Strahlemberg , who made such advantageous use ...
... least traces of commerce revolutions of this nature may easily happen to a barren country seeing they are so soon brought about in the most fruitful provinces . The famous Swedish prisoner , Strahlemberg , who made such advantageous use ...
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... are the Burates , another people , who have not yet been made Christians . Eastward there are several hordes , whom the Russians have not as yet entirely sub- dued . None of these people have the least knowledge of the 10 10 HISTORY OF.
... are the Burates , another people , who have not yet been made Christians . Eastward there are several hordes , whom the Russians have not as yet entirely sub- dued . None of these people have the least knowledge of the 10 10 HISTORY OF.
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A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature. None of these people have the least knowledge of the calender : they reckon their time by snows , and not by the apparent motion of the sun : as it snows regularly , and for a long time ...
A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature. None of these people have the least knowledge of the calender : they reckon their time by snows , and not by the apparent motion of the sun : as it snows regularly , and for a long time ...
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... least a seventh of all estates ; for their peasants pay a capitation to the sovereign ; and the other taxes of the crown of Russia , in which the clergy have no share , are very considerable . This valuation is very different from that ...
... least a seventh of all estates ; for their peasants pay a capitation to the sovereign ; and the other taxes of the crown of Russia , in which the clergy have no share , are very considerable . This valuation is very different from that ...
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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...