A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 2John Walker Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... perhaps the force of Suetonius's assertion may be taken off , if we consider that a numerous , grave , and regular body , like the Roman senate , could not possibly carry on the variety of business with dispatch or convenience , unless ...
... perhaps the force of Suetonius's assertion may be taken off , if we consider that a numerous , grave , and regular body , like the Roman senate , could not possibly carry on the variety of business with dispatch or convenience , unless ...
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... perhaps find the same con- ciseness , clearness , and simplicity , in the Acta Diurna , which so eminently distinguish the inscriptions upon the medals and public monuments of the ancients . I must own , how- ever , to be impartial ...
... perhaps find the same con- ciseness , clearness , and simplicity , in the Acta Diurna , which so eminently distinguish the inscriptions upon the medals and public monuments of the ancients . I must own , how- ever , to be impartial ...
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... perhaps , there are very few who have not sometimes valued as new discoveries , made by themselves , those observations which have long since been published , and of which the world therefore will refuse them the praise ; nor can that ...
... perhaps , there are very few who have not sometimes valued as new discoveries , made by themselves , those observations which have long since been published , and of which the world therefore will refuse them the praise ; nor can that ...
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... customs , and prescriptions , are here to be found . The several states of Italy have in this treasury , their particular historians , whose accounts are , perhaps , generally On the Catalogue of the Harleian Library . 11.
... customs , and prescriptions , are here to be found . The several states of Italy have in this treasury , their particular historians , whose accounts are , perhaps , generally On the Catalogue of the Harleian Library . 11.
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John Walker. particular historians , whose accounts are , perhaps , generally more exact , by being less extensive , and more interesting , by being more particular . Nor has less regard been paid to the different nations of the Germanic ...
John Walker. particular historians , whose accounts are , perhaps , generally more exact , by being less extensive , and more interesting , by being more particular . Nor has less regard been paid to the different nations of the Germanic ...
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Page 136 - And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
Page 318 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness : so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies ; and hear poor rogues Talk of...
Page 495 - As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come 'into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Page 136 - And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus : and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven. And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me ? And he said, Who art thou, Lord ? And the LORD said, I am JESUS whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Page 185 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Page 246 - Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether, though it were but for a while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself ; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular...
Page 76 - And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen, that he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place. And they gave forth. their lots ; and the lot fell upon Matthias ; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
Page 204 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Page 301 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.
Page 358 - They looking back, all th' eastern side beheld Of paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces throng'd, and fiery arms : Some natural tears they dropt ; but wip'd them soon. The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.