Philological Inquiries: In Three Parts, Volume 3C. Nourse, 1781 - English essays |
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... fince , in Compofitions as clumfy , as the common Dialect of the mere Vulgar . THE fame Love of Elegance , which made them attend to their STILE , made them S 4 P. III . them attend even to the PLACES , INQUIRIES . 263.
... fince , in Compofitions as clumfy , as the common Dialect of the mere Vulgar . THE fame Love of Elegance , which made them attend to their STILE , made them S 4 P. III . them attend even to the PLACES , INQUIRIES . 263.
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... fince . THE City from this time has been oc- cafionally vifited , and Defcriptions of it published by different Travellers . WHEELER was there along with SPON in the time of our Charles the Second , and both of them have published ...
... fince . THE City from this time has been oc- cafionally vifited , and Defcriptions of it published by different Travellers . WHEELER was there along with SPON in the time of our Charles the Second , and both of them have published ...
Page 371
... - MENTS and MANNERS . Ir the account of thefe laft be faithful , it cannot fail being inftructive , fince we view thro ' these the interiour of human Na- B b 2 ture . P. III . ture . ' Tis by these we INQUIRIES . 371 -- ...
... - MENTS and MANNERS . Ir the account of thefe laft be faithful , it cannot fail being inftructive , fince we view thro ' these the interiour of human Na- B b 2 ture . P. III . ture . ' Tis by these we INQUIRIES . 371 -- ...
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... fince , as they have feldom more to boast , than the fashion- able Polish . FOR the LITERARY QUALIFICATIONS of our Hiftorian himself , we perceive fome- thing of his Education in what we have already quoted from him . He is more ...
... fince , as they have feldom more to boast , than the fashion- able Polish . FOR the LITERARY QUALIFICATIONS of our Hiftorian himself , we perceive fome- thing of his Education in what we have already quoted from him . He is more ...
Page 448
... fince the War began ; while " we , ' tis evident , enjoy all the produce " of our Countries to the full . Lastly , " as to the CROSS , that in truth is your " Scandal , and a great dishonour to the · Deity ; which , however , it does ...
... fince the War began ; while " we , ' tis evident , enjoy all the produce " of our Countries to the full . Lastly , " as to the CROSS , that in truth is your " Scandal , and a great dishonour to the · Deity ; which , however , it does ...
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Page 532 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new ? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Page 464 - How can they say that nature Has nothing made in vain ; Why then, beneath the water, Should hideous rocks remain ? No eyes the rocks discover That lurk beneath the deep, To wreck the wandering lover, And leave the maid to weep.
Page 487 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Page 267 - Athens only celebrated for the refidence of philofophers, and the inftitution of youth: men of rank and fortune found pleafure in a retreat, which contributed fo much to their liberal enjoyment. The friend and correfpondent of Cicero, T.
Page 530 - One absurdity in this author (a wretched philosopher, though a great wit) is well worth remarking: in order to render the nature of man odious...
Page 249 - ... the admiration of every beholder. It was then that Polygnotus and Myro painted ; that Sophocles and Euripides wrote ; and not long after, that they faw the divine Socrates.
Page 528 - In our time it may be spoken more truly than of old, that virtue is gone ; the church is under foot ; the clergy is in error ; the devil reigneth,
Page 256 - Zeno taught in a portico or colonnade, distinguished fromoiherbuildingsofth.it sort (of which the Athenians had many) by the name of the Variegated Portico, the walls being decorated with various paintings of Polygnotus and Myro, two capital masters of that transcendent period.
Page 246 - upon this ordered them to be dispersed through the "baths of Alexandria, and to be there burnt in making "the baths warm. After this manner, in the space of "six months, they were all consumed.
Page 274 - Its fortune after this was various ; and it •was sometimes under the Venetians, sometimes under the Catalonians, till Mahomet the Great made himself master of Constantinople. This -fatal catastrophe (which happened near two thousand years after the time of...