The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, المجلد 21R. Griffiths, 1759 |
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... ment , & c . II . A COMMON PLACE BOOK , with an Index planned by the celebrated Mr. LocKE ; very useful for methodically registering any Hints and Obfervations relative to Trade or Literature , which may occur to Mind , or be met with ...
... ment , & c . II . A COMMON PLACE BOOK , with an Index planned by the celebrated Mr. LocKE ; very useful for methodically registering any Hints and Obfervations relative to Trade or Literature , which may occur to Mind , or be met with ...
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... ment , and acutenefs of understanding , that are feldom to be met with ; and what ought particularly to be mentioned , there is the ftricteft regard preferved , throughout , to the principles of religion , fo that the ferious reader ...
... ment , and acutenefs of understanding , that are feldom to be met with ; and what ought particularly to be mentioned , there is the ftricteft regard preferved , throughout , to the principles of religion , fo that the ferious reader ...
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... ment to order and govern fancy , rather than excess of fancy , his productions being flow and upon deliberation , yet then abounding with great wit and fancy , and will live accord- ingly ; and furely as he did exceedingly exalt the ...
... ment to order and govern fancy , rather than excess of fancy , his productions being flow and upon deliberation , yet then abounding with great wit and fancy , and will live accord- ingly ; and furely as he did exceedingly exalt the ...
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... ment . Their eagerness anticipates conclufions , and a long chain of reasoning only diftracts their attention , and bewilders their ideas . But the way of dialogue , favours the impetuofity of these volatile ftudents . The frequent ...
... ment . Their eagerness anticipates conclufions , and a long chain of reasoning only diftracts their attention , and bewilders their ideas . But the way of dialogue , favours the impetuofity of these volatile ftudents . The frequent ...
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... ment of man ? How comes it to pass , that this stillness of • a country landscape , this uninftructing , though agreeable enough fcene of fields and waters , fhould have greater beau- ties in your eye , than flourishing peopled towns ...
... ment of man ? How comes it to pass , that this stillness of • a country landscape , this uninftructing , though agreeable enough fcene of fields and waters , fhould have greater beau- ties in your eye , than flourishing peopled towns ...
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الصفحة 205 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
الصفحة 25 - ... his humanity, courtesy and affability was such, that he would have been thought to have been bred in the best courts, but that his good nature, charity and delight in doing good, and in communicating all he knew, exceeded that breeding.
الصفحة 301 - From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...
الصفحة 205 - Of mimic'd statesmen and their merry king. No wit to flatter left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends.
الصفحة 541 - All the dexterity is in the good cookery and management of them...
الصفحة 25 - His style in all his writings seems harsh and sometimes obscure, which is not wholly to be imputed to the abstruse subjects of which he commonly treated, out of the paths trod by other men, but to a little undervaluing the beauty of a...
الصفحة 203 - He laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
الصفحة 547 - IMAGINE to yourself a little squat, uncourtly figure of a Doctor Slop, of about four feet and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a sesquipedality of belly, which might have done honour to a Serjeant in the horse-guards.
الصفحة 112 - ... double of that by the water ; for the image of the object, though not at all refracted, was yet as much infected with prifmatic colours, as if it had been feen through n glafs wedge only, whofe refracting angle was near thirty degrees.
الصفحة 188 - Twas from the bottle King deriv'd his wit, Drank till he could not talk, and then he writ. Let no coiPd ferjeant touch the facred juice, But leave it to the bards for better ufe : Let the grave judges too the glafs forbear, Who never fing and dance but once a year. This truth once known, our poets take the hint...