The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 44Tobias Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1777 - English literature Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue." |
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... fubject by fir Matthew Hale , ought to have attracted his particular attention . He should have known , that this ... fubjects ; a certain proof that many Englishmen held lands of him by knight - fervice ; yet he con tends , that all the ...
... fubject by fir Matthew Hale , ought to have attracted his particular attention . He should have known , that this ... fubjects ; a certain proof that many Englishmen held lands of him by knight - fervice ; yet he con tends , that all the ...
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... fubject in hand being fufficient to introduce them . In general , the latter are more proper for public fpeakers , and the former for writers . The want of clofe connexion , fmall improprieties , or even inconfiftencies , pafs unnoticed ...
... fubject in hand being fufficient to introduce them . In general , the latter are more proper for public fpeakers , and the former for writers . The want of clofe connexion , fmall improprieties , or even inconfiftencies , pafs unnoticed ...
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... fubject , may have the fame power to excite thofe fenfations with which we would with the compofition might be read . Whatever thefe fenfations be , they will be the fame with thofe with which the compofition was written ; it being ...
... fubject , may have the fame power to excite thofe fenfations with which we would with the compofition might be read . Whatever thefe fenfations be , they will be the fame with thofe with which the compofition was written ; it being ...
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... fubject not yet brought to an exact determination , notwithstanding the endeavours of our immortal Newton . Mr. Glenie feems to have bestowed fome time and labour on this fubject , though the result is not " bere published , but ...
... fubject not yet brought to an exact determination , notwithstanding the endeavours of our immortal Newton . Mr. Glenie feems to have bestowed fome time and labour on this fubject , though the result is not " bere published , but ...
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... fubject with the best artillery in the world . The latter part of the book contains the new method of de- riving the ... fubjects . Not that it was neceffary in this cafe however to be of the deepest or most acute kind ; for having ...
... fubject with the best artillery in the world . The latter part of the book contains the new method of de- riving the ... fubjects . Not that it was neceffary in this cafe however to be of the deepest or most acute kind ; for having ...
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Page 37 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 57 - The tenure by which the great body of the people held their property, was very different. In every district a certain quantity of land was measured out in proportion to the number of families. This was cultivated by the joint labour of the whole ; its produce was deposited in a common storehouse, and divided among them according to their respective exigencies.
Page 455 - So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
Page 60 - ... the wrath of their gods, and the Mexicans never approached their altars without sprinkling them with blood drawn from their own bodies. But, of all offerings, human sacrifices were deemed the most acceptable. This religious belief mingling with the implacable spirit of vengeance, and adding new force to it, every captive taken in war was brought to the temple, was devoted as a victim to the deity, and sacrificed with rites no less solemn than cruel.
Page 309 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.
Page 56 - Pizarro, at the head of his chosen band, advanced directly towards the inca; and though his nobles crowded around him with officious zeal, and fell in numbers at his feet, while they vied one with another in sacrificing their own lives, that they might cover the sacred person of their sovereign, the Spaniards soon penetrated to the royal seat; and Pizarro...
Page 210 - At the last of those towns were several of our ship's crew, and my servant. I had sufficient evidence of their being treated with such barbarity, that many hundreds had perished ; and that thirty-six were buried...
Page 154 - February, 1704, and educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Soon after his return to...
Page 374 - Foote corporally, and have made him feel that your wooden leg which he mimicked had an avenging arm to protect it; but you scorned so inglorious a victory, and called justice and the laws of your country to punish the criminal, and to avenge your cause. You triumphed ; and I heartily join my weak voice to the loud acclamations of the good citizens of Dublin upon this occasion.
Page 60 - They presented to him choice specimens of those works of ingenuity which his light had guided the hand of man in forming. But the Incas never stained his altars with human blood, nor could they conceive that their beneficent father the Sun would be delighted with such horrid victims fj£J.