The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan, Volume 81790 Containing scientific abstracts of important and interesting works, published in English; a general account of such as are of less consequence, with short characters; notices, or reviews of valuable foreign books; criticisms on new pieces of music and works of art; and the literary intelligence of Europe, &c. |
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... because many particulars below the dignity of this title are introduced : we fhall fimply fay that it is The Court of Lewis XIV . The Regency . It is not the monarch in his army , in his councils , in his administration , it is Lewis ...
... because many particulars below the dignity of this title are introduced : we fhall fimply fay that it is The Court of Lewis XIV . The Regency . It is not the monarch in his army , in his councils , in his administration , it is Lewis ...
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... because a croud difturbed the chace . He thought it very ridiculous in any one , to go without liking it , and he was never difpleased with thofe who did not attend . At the chace , and indeed every where elfe , he would not permit the ...
... because a croud difturbed the chace . He thought it very ridiculous in any one , to go without liking it , and he was never difpleased with thofe who did not attend . At the chace , and indeed every where elfe , he would not permit the ...
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any fnuff boxes , because he could not endure fnuff , or fuffer those who ufed it to approach him . In his youth he had been very fond of perfumes , but a liking for orange - flower - water was the only one that remained . All that ...
any fnuff boxes , because he could not endure fnuff , or fuffer those who ufed it to approach him . In his youth he had been very fond of perfumes , but a liking for orange - flower - water was the only one that remained . All that ...
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... because its appearance does not vary with its relative pofition to the fun , as fuch a fhadow muft do . Dr. Herfchel hefitates concerning the fur- mife of a divifion of the ring in this place , as well as from fome fpeculative reafons ...
... because its appearance does not vary with its relative pofition to the fun , as fuch a fhadow muft do . Dr. Herfchel hefitates concerning the fur- mife of a divifion of the ring in this place , as well as from fome fpeculative reafons ...
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... because the charcoa ! would combine with dephlogisticated air after its feparation from light inflammable air , and we should not have fuch a defect of fixed air . 6. That the refidues , after inflaming the decompofed air , are ...
... because the charcoa ! would combine with dephlogisticated air after its feparation from light inflammable air , and we should not have fuch a defect of fixed air . 6. That the refidues , after inflaming the decompofed air , are ...
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Page 196 - For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward ; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him...
Page 386 - I scarce could turn to fall upon the ground, with my head to the northward, when I felt the heat of its current plainly upon my face. We all lay flat on the ground, as if dead, till Idris told us it was blown over. The meteor, or purple haze, which I saw, was indeed passed, but the light air that still blew was of heat to threaten suffocation.
Page 296 - ... it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes.
Page 55 - ... he makes in chewing it, the more polite he is thought to be. They have, indeed, a proverb that says, 'Beggars and thieves only eat small pieces, or without making a noise.
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Page 504 - Second and since his decease pretended to be and took upon himself the stile and title of King of England by the name of James the Third or of Scotland by the name of James the Eighth or the stile and title of King of Great Britain hath any right or title whatsoever to the crown of this realm...
Page 265 - I am thy father's spirit ; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night ; And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.
Page 76 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; And many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Page 318 - While the funeral is attended by a numerous unconcerned company, who are discoursing to' one another about the news of the day, or the ordinary affairs of life, let our thoughts rather follow to the house of mourning, and represent to themselves what is passing there. 6. There we should see a disconsolate...
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