The British Palladium: Or, Annual Miscellany of Literature and Science for the Year ..., Volume 4

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D. Steel., 1754 - Almanacs, English

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Page 45 - Thus when a barber and a collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier white, The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And big with vengeance, beats the barber black. In comes the brickdust man with grime o'erspread, And beats the collier and the barber red. Black, red and white in various clouds are tossed, And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.
Page 26 - In any quadrilateral figure, the sum of the squares on the diagonals together with four times the square on the line joining their middle points, is equal to the sum of the squares on all the sides.
Page 43 - True wit is like the brilliant stone Dug from the Indian mine ; Which boasts two various powers in one, To cut as well as shine. Genius, like that, if polish 'd right, With the same gifts abounds ; Appears at once both keen and bright, And sparkles while it wounds.
Page 49 - Those grave fellows are my aversion, who sift every thing with the utmost nicety, and find the malignity of a lie in a piece of humour, pushed a little beyond exact truth. I likewise have a poor opinion of those, who have got a trick of keeping a steady countenance, that cock their hats, and look glum when a pleasant thing is said, and ask,
Page 26 - BD, is equal to the sum of the squares of all the four sides of the parallelogram.
Page 49 - Men of wit and parts should treat one another with benevolence : and I will lay it down as a maxim, that if you seem to have a good opinion of another man's wit, he will allow you to have...
Page 47 - Day of Storm and Rain, that I ever saw before, or since, but because I engaged to Preach for a very Worthy Friend of mine, who lived about twenty Miles off, and this being Saturday, I could not defer it...
Page 45 - POOR, little, pretty, fluttering thing, Muft we no longer live together ? And doft thou prune thy trembling wing, > To take thy flight thou know'ft not whither? Thy...
Page 44 - But if thus blefs'd I may not live, And pity you deny. To me at leaft your Sherlock give, 'Tis I muft learn to die. SONG SONG. WHEN Fanny blooming fair Firft caught my ravifh'd...
Page 26 - It between them in this Manner, viz. A for his Part is to enjoy the whole Annuity for the firft ten Years ; В and his Heirs being to have the intire Reverfion thereof for the remaining го Years.

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