The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 5Published for the proprietors, 1836 |
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... present dry land , to have been for a long time covered with water : but how comes it to pass , that the waves , which , according to the supposition , formed the Alps , the Pyrenees , and Mount Taurus , did not likewise form some ...
... present dry land , to have been for a long time covered with water : but how comes it to pass , that the waves , which , according to the supposition , formed the Alps , the Pyrenees , and Mount Taurus , did not likewise form some ...
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... present divided into sixteen large governments , that will one day be subdi- vided , when the northern and eastern countries come to be more inhabited . These sixteen governments , which contain se- veral immense provinces are the ...
... present divided into sixteen large governments , that will one day be subdi- vided , when the northern and eastern countries come to be more inhabited . These sixteen governments , which contain se- veral immense provinces are the ...
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... present thought to be of the Greek church ; but those who wander about the mountains of the north cape , are satisfied with adoring one God under certain rude forms , as has been the ancient custom of all the nations called Nomades , or ...
... present thought to be of the Greek church ; but those who wander about the mountains of the north cape , are satisfied with adoring one God under certain rude forms , as has been the ancient custom of all the nations called Nomades , or ...
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... present history , and who was himself much more capable to have done it , even in the French lan- guage , had not his great modesty determined him to resign the task to me , as will evidently appear from his own letters on this subject ...
... present history , and who was himself much more capable to have done it , even in the French lan- guage , had not his great modesty determined him to resign the task to me , as will evidently appear from his own letters on this subject ...
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... present , to hide from the rapacity of rob- bers , such of their effects as have escaped the fury of the civil wars . The city of Orembourg is become the asylum of the Persians and their riches , and is grown considerable by their ...
... present , to hide from the rapacity of rob- bers , such of their effects as have escaped the fury of the civil wars . The city of Orembourg is become the asylum of the Persians and their riches , and is grown considerable by their ...
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Page 17 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home : Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Page 16 - Grace, And calls forth all the Wonders of her Face ; Sees by Degrees a purer Blush arise, And keener Lightnings quicken in her Eyes.
Page 16 - But chiefly Love— to Love an Altar built, Of twelve vast French Romances, neatly gilt. There lay three garters, half a pair of gloves; And all the trophies of his former loves...
Page 19 - On various tempers act by various ways, Make some take physic, others scribble plays; Who cause the proud their visits to delay, And send the godly in a pet to pray. A nymph there is, that all thy power disdains, And thousands more in equal mirth maintains. But oh! if e'er thy gnome could spoil a grace, Or raise a pimple on a beauteous face, Like citron-waters matrons...
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