The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information ... Containing General Correspondence, Classical Disquisitions, Account of Rare and Curious Books, Memoirs of Distinguished Persons, Original Poetry, Literary and Miscellaneous Information, المجلد 1John Aikin Longmans, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... Corsica . He was born in that island in the year 1726 , and was the second son of Giacinto Paoli , a man of considerable weight and influence in the country , who had frequently taken an active part in the government of its affairs ...
... Corsica . He was born in that island in the year 1726 , and was the second son of Giacinto Paoli , a man of considerable weight and influence in the country , who had frequently taken an active part in the government of its affairs ...
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... Corsica of his genius and promising abilities , at once pointed him out to his countrymen as the most proper object of their choice to the supreme command ; and an ap- plication to this effect was transmitted to his father at Naples ...
... Corsica of his genius and promising abilities , at once pointed him out to his countrymen as the most proper object of their choice to the supreme command ; and an ap- plication to this effect was transmitted to his father at Naples ...
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... Corsica : " A criminal , " said he , " was condemned to die . His nephew came to me with a lady of distinction , that she might solicit his pardon . The nephew's anxiety made him think that the lady did not speak with sufficient force ...
... Corsica : " A criminal , " said he , " was condemned to die . His nephew came to me with a lady of distinction , that she might solicit his pardon . The nephew's anxiety made him think that the lady did not speak with sufficient force ...
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... Corsica . Nothing can well be conceived more mean and unworthy'a great nation , than this grant of aid to the Genoese , to rivet the chains and em- bitter the bondage of the unhappy islanders . * It was stipulated , indeed , that these ...
... Corsica . Nothing can well be conceived more mean and unworthy'a great nation , than this grant of aid to the Genoese , to rivet the chains and em- bitter the bondage of the unhappy islanders . * It was stipulated , indeed , that these ...
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... Corsica , then in the possession of the Genoese , which , after a vigorous assault , was carried by the patriots in the month of May , 1767. * While Paoli and his followers were anxiously waiting the expiration of the term , during ...
... Corsica , then in the possession of the Genoese , which , after a vigorous assault , was carried by the patriots in the month of May , 1767. * While Paoli and his followers were anxiously waiting the expiration of the term , during ...
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الصفحة 146 - Look once more ere we leave this specular mount Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence...
الصفحة 172 - I communicate also a statistical view, procured and forwarded by him, of the Indian nations inhabiting the Territory of Louisiana...
الصفحة 265 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
الصفحة 146 - So far in relation to the upper terminus of the long man; next, with reference to the lower terminus, Gibbon goes on: " And that his pupils, ^Eschines and Demosthenes, contended for the crown of patriotism in the presence of Aristotle, the master of Theophrastus, who taught at Athens with the founders of the Stoic and Epicurean sects.
الصفحة 245 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
الصفحة 459 - To bear the ills they have, Than fly to others that they know not of.
الصفحة 120 - Fables; but he frankly declared to me his mind, "that he did not delight in that learning, because he did not believe they were true"; for which reason I found he had very much turned his studies, for about a twelve-month past, into the lives and adventures of don Bellianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other historians of that age.
الصفحة 65 - Like fears that cross the mind, Like meteors gleaming through the night, Like thunders on the wind. The vision of the tomb is past ; Beyond it who can tell In what mysterious region cast Immortal spirits dwell ? I know not, but I soon shall know When life's sore conflicts cease, When this desponding heart lies low, And I shall rest in peace. For see, on Death's bewildering wave, The rainbow Hope arise, A bridge of glory o'er the grave, That bends beyond the skies.
الصفحة 115 - Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. Our trees rise in cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush.
الصفحة 6 - The excellent lady, the Lady Lizard, in the space of one summer, furnished a gallery with chairs and couches of her own and her daughters' working ; and at the same time heard all Dr.