The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Bind 11J. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1798 |
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Side 84
... thofe ages of credulity and fable ; although , in our more enlightened times , they rather difguft than edify in that anti- quated form . It is therefore necef- fary , if we would perufe the life of this great and holy man with patience ...
... thofe ages of credulity and fable ; although , in our more enlightened times , they rather difguft than edify in that anti- quated form . It is therefore necef- fary , if we would perufe the life of this great and holy man with patience ...
Side 89
... thofe to whom the fecret had been divulged , and their preffing inftances that he would continue to write , a- wakened his paffion for poetry , which he had flattered himself was wholly fubdued . He now began to feel , that by the ...
... thofe to whom the fecret had been divulged , and their preffing inftances that he would continue to write , a- wakened his paffion for poetry , which he had flattered himself was wholly fubdued . He now began to feel , that by the ...
Side 96
... thofe on the east from Batavia , Am- boyna holds the front rank , and the neighbouring iflands , with a part of Ceram , are under its government . The whole of the company's fervants here are fuppofed to be about eight or nine hundred ...
... thofe on the east from Batavia , Am- boyna holds the front rank , and the neighbouring iflands , with a part of Ceram , are under its government . The whole of the company's fervants here are fuppofed to be about eight or nine hundred ...
Side 110
... thofe claffes , though healthy , active , and as if quite at home , readily o- beying a few emaciated Europeans ; fuch is the confequence of dominion once acquired ; the prevalence of the mind over mere bodily exertions , and the effect ...
... thofe claffes , though healthy , active , and as if quite at home , readily o- beying a few emaciated Europeans ; fuch is the confequence of dominion once acquired ; the prevalence of the mind over mere bodily exertions , and the effect ...
Side 114
... thofe erroneous ftratagems by not pro- claiming to all the world the arrange ment that was in view , it did not pro- cted from my not having taken a pricile and defined line ; ftill lefs did it arife from any notion of ad- vantage in ...
... thofe erroneous ftratagems by not pro- claiming to all the world the arrange ment that was in view , it did not pro- cted from my not having taken a pricile and defined line ; ftill lefs did it arife from any notion of ad- vantage in ...
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Side 379 - All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head, Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips, Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes, I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience...
Side 313 - PITT moved the order of the day, for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe to confider of Ways and Means for railing a fupply granted to His Majefty.
Side 427 - I took as much delight in reading as you do ; it would be the means of alleviating many tedious hours in my present retirement. But, to my misfortune, I derive no pleasure from such pursuits.
Side 126 - His drawings almost rest on this quality alone for their value ; but possessing it in an eminent degree — and as no drawing can have any merit where it is wanting — his works, therefore, in this branch of the art, approach nearer to perfection than his paintings.
Side 445 - A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual — they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not his deficience. By any acute observer who had looked on the transactions of the medical world for half a century a very curious book might be written on the "Fortune of Physicians.
Side 294 - Wade's boy hearing of his son's illness, answered with indifference, ' that he could do nothing for him," and left him to his fate. The other, when the accounts reached him, hurried down, and watching for a favourable moment, crawled on all-fours along the weather gunwale to his son, who was in the mizen rigging.
Side 383 - When at last I was forced from my Sheelah to part, She said, (while the sorrow was big at her heart,) Oh ! remember your Sheelah when far, far away : And be kind, my dear Pat, to our poor dog Tray.
Side 412 - ... she made it so invariable a rule never to refuse a desire of the King, that every morning at Richmond she walked several miles with him ; and more than once, when she had the gout in her foot, she dipped her whole leg in cold water to be ready to attend him. The pain, her bulk, and the exercise, threw her into such fits of perspiration as vented the gout; but those exertions hastened the crisis of her distemper.
Side 443 - The portico is at once elegant and august ; and if the steps arising from the street to the front could have been made regular, and on a line from end to end, it would have given it a very considerable grace : but, as the situation of the ground would not allow it, this is to be esteemed a misfortune rather than a fault.
Side 334 - This impatience to reach Osnaburg induced the attendants not to stop at Ippenburen, but to hasten on in hopes of arriving at that city before he died. But it was too late. The exact time and place of his death cannot be ascertained ; but it is most probable that he expired either...