The European Magazine, and London Review, المجلد 18

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Philological Society of London, 1790
 

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الصفحة 18 - ... with. He offered to speak, but was commanded to be gone without a word. In the outer room, James Maxwell required him, as prisoner, to deliver his sword. When he had got it, he cries with a loud voice, for his man to carry my lord lieutenant's sword.
الصفحة 338 - ... make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their...
الصفحة 18 - This done, he makes through a number of people towards his coach, all gazing, no man capping to him, before whom, that morning, the greatest of England would have stood discovered, all crying, 'what is the matter ?' He said. ' A small matter, I warrant you.
الصفحة 171 - And the Lord God said, it is not good for man to be alone; I will make him an help meet, for him...
الصفحة 195 - Their colour is invariably white, muzzle black ; the whole of the inside of the ear, and about one-third of the outside from the tip, downwards, red : horns white, with black tips, very fine, and bent upwards ; ^some of the bulls have a thin upright mane, about an inch and a half, or two inches long...
الصفحة 99 - William for them) affords us but few materials to work with. Plants, ground, and water, are her only productions; and, though both the forms and arrangements of these may be varied to an incredible degree, yet have they but few striking varieties, the rest being of the nature of " changes rung upon bells," which, though in reality different, still produce the same uniform kind of jingling ; the variation being too minute to be easily perceived...
الصفحة 128 - In the year 1766, this printer, called to the bar of the house of commons, underwent that famous interrogatory, which placed the name of Franklin as high in politics, as it was before in natural philosophy. From that time he defended the cause of America with a firmness and moderation becoming a great man, pointing out to...
الصفحة 391 - ... between me and the court of Spain, have happily been brought to an amicable termination. — I have ordered copies of the declarations exchanged between my...
الصفحة 196 - The mode of killing them was, perhaps, the only modern remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting. On notice being given that a wild Bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted, and armed with guns, &c.
الصفحة 317 - President of the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men.

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