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... objects , which would add millions to the national income , and would increase the comfort of every indi- vidual in ... object , and who would take a just pride in accomplishing some of the greatest benefits that could be conferred on ...
... objects , which would add millions to the national income , and would increase the comfort of every indi- vidual in ... object , and who would take a just pride in accomplishing some of the greatest benefits that could be conferred on ...
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... object Until at length , the abolition itself was carried triumphantly through both houses of parliament , and received the sanction of the crown by commission on Wednesday , March 25 , 1807 , the last act of the then ministry . Mr ...
... object Until at length , the abolition itself was carried triumphantly through both houses of parliament , and received the sanction of the crown by commission on Wednesday , March 25 , 1807 , the last act of the then ministry . Mr ...
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... object of his book ? — To imitate the inimitable , and to equal the unequalled . His " Public Characters " are Mrs. F * ske , M - ll - ner and Dr - ss- m - ker , whose renown is circulated with infinite complacency among the votaries of ...
... object of his book ? — To imitate the inimitable , and to equal the unequalled . His " Public Characters " are Mrs. F * ske , M - ll - ner and Dr - ss- m - ker , whose renown is circulated with infinite complacency among the votaries of ...
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... object ; but her English is proof against all objections : we bave wearied ourselves in attempting to discover the smallest blemishes of senti- ment , construction , or diction , in the fol- lowing paragraphs : and after our keenest ...
... object ; but her English is proof against all objections : we bave wearied ourselves in attempting to discover the smallest blemishes of senti- ment , construction , or diction , in the fol- lowing paragraphs : and after our keenest ...
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... object that determined me in publishing this work , was the more generally to promote English country dancing , as I am proud to say it will afford the more enlight- ened countries of Europe an opportunity of judging of the most ...
... object that determined me in publishing this work , was the more generally to promote English country dancing , as I am proud to say it will afford the more enlight- ened countries of Europe an opportunity of judging of the most ...
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Page 783 - Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ...
Page 567 - Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Page 321 - ... where the sheep were feeding at large, in short, the view of the streams and rivers, convinced us that there was not a single useless or idle word in the above-mentioned description, but that it was a most exact and lively representation of nature. Thus will this fine passage, which has always been admired for its elegance, receive an additional beauty from its exactness. After we had walked, with a kind of poetical enthusiasm, over this enchanted ground, we returned to the village.
Page 541 - That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster...
Page 1001 - Corunna for a time had rendered indispensable to assume, the native and undaunted valour of British troops was never more conspicuous, and must have exceeded what even your own experience of that invaluable quality, so inherent in them, may have taught you to expect.
Page 243 - Asiatic society, on die history, civil and natural, the antiquities, arts, sciences, philosophy, and literature of Asia, and on the origin and families of nations, he has discussed the subjects which he professed to explain, with a perspicuity which delights and instructs, and in a style which never ceases to please, where his arguments may not always convince. In these disquisitions he has more particularly displayed his profound Oriental learning in illustrating...
Page 945 - It has demonstrated to foreign nations the moderation and firmness which govern our councils, and to our citizens the necessity of uniting in support of the laws and the rights of their country, and has thus long frustrated those usurpations and spoliations which, if resisted, involved war, if submitted to, sacrificed a vital principle of our national independence.
Page 991 - Cressy's laurell'd field, And gaze with fix'd delight: Again for Britain's wrongs they feel, Again they snatch the gleamy steel, And wish th
Page 259 - I think I can clearly say that before these present troubles broke out, the English did not possess one foot of land in this colony but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors.
Page 235 - ... an apple suspended by a string, with the mouth alone, and the same by an apple in a tub of water ; each throwing a nut into the fire ; and those that burn bright betoken prosperity to the owners through the following year, but those that burn black and crackle denote misfortune. On the following morning the stones are searched for in the fire, and if any be missing, they betide ill to those who threw them in.