The London Magazine, Bind 8Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1827 |
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Side 17
... probably he cannot look two second - rate person , though weapon for his coarse hands ; his satire was ways at once.-ED. " horse - play , " as Dryden terms it ; the lap- stone and hammer of his early years were his favourite weapons to ...
... probably he cannot look two second - rate person , though weapon for his coarse hands ; his satire was ways at once.-ED. " horse - play , " as Dryden terms it ; the lap- stone and hammer of his early years were his favourite weapons to ...
Side 38
... probably lay it down with considerable disappointment . The plot is but the slender thread on which the author strings his pearls - his characters . De Vere is not a drama , it is rather a gallery of sculpture in which we see a number ...
... probably lay it down with considerable disappointment . The plot is but the slender thread on which the author strings his pearls - his characters . De Vere is not a drama , it is rather a gallery of sculpture in which we see a number ...
Side 52
... probably founded in a mistake . Mr. Morris , of Isleworth , says , that he has often seen them sit in a formal manner on the combs when the brood is hatching . But Dr. Bevan suspects that Mr. Morris mistook sleeping for brooding , and ...
... probably founded in a mistake . Mr. Morris , of Isleworth , says , that he has often seen them sit in a formal manner on the combs when the brood is hatching . But Dr. Bevan suspects that Mr. Morris mistook sleeping for brooding , and ...
Side 53
... probably she should be subject to any failure in her first attempt to fly , or lest she should immediately proceed to destroy the other queen nymphs not yet hatched ; for such is the instinctive enmity against her rivals in power , that ...
... probably she should be subject to any failure in her first attempt to fly , or lest she should immediately proceed to destroy the other queen nymphs not yet hatched ; for such is the instinctive enmity against her rivals in power , that ...
Side 55
... probably , yet , setting the period as low as possible , her eggs will exceed the number produced by any other known animal in creation . The impregnation of the eggs is a difficult and disputed point . Several hypotheses have been ...
... probably , yet , setting the period as low as possible , her eggs will exceed the number produced by any other known animal in creation . The impregnation of the eggs is a difficult and disputed point . Several hypotheses have been ...
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Side 302 - It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Side 356 - One man says, he has a thing made on purpose to tell him what is right and what is wrong; and that it is called a 'moral sense:' and then he goes to work at his ease, and says, such a thing is right, and such a thing is wrong - why? 'Because my moral sense tells me it is.
Side 284 - The glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and good King William — not forgetting Oliver Cromwell, who assisted in redeeming us from Popery, slavery, arbitrary power, brass money and wooden shoes.
Side 282 - No one dared venture within the line of devastation. The hogs had been penned up in due time, the picking up of the dead and wounded being left for the next morning's employment. The pigeons were constantly coming, and it was past midnight before I perceived a decrease in the number of those that arrived.
Side 91 - The profits of a sugar plantation in any of our West Indian colonies, are generally much greater than those of any other cultivation that is known either in Europe or America...
Side 517 - That where any person hath or shall have any child or children under the age of one and twenty years, and not married at the time of his death, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the father of such child or children, whether born at the time of the decease of the father, or at that time in ventre sa mere...
Side 272 - European or American to acquire a living oriental language, root and branch, and make it his own, is quite a different thing from his acquiring a cognate language of the West, or any of the dead languages, as they are studied in the schools. One circumstance may serve to illustrate this. I once had occasion to devote about two months to the study of the French.
Side 413 - that, for the purpose of providing against the further decline and final extinction of the Indian tribes adjoining the frontier settlements of the United States, and for introducing among them the habits and arts of civilization...