The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 101Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1831 - English essays |
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... death is mentioned , as above , in Gent . Mag . vol . XLVII . p . 95 , where she is called Maria . If your correspondent would be so obliging as to mention his authority for this lady being the daughter of Col. Comerford instead of Col ...
... death is mentioned , as above , in Gent . Mag . vol . XLVII . p . 95 , where she is called Maria . If your correspondent would be so obliging as to mention his authority for this lady being the daughter of Col. Comerford instead of Col ...
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... Napoleon was attempted by what was styled the Infernal Machine . Armand was condemned to death ( but did not suffer ) ; Jules to two years imprisonment.§ Yours , & c . G. M. 10 particularly distinguished . He had been educated in the.
... Napoleon was attempted by what was styled the Infernal Machine . Armand was condemned to death ( but did not suffer ) ; Jules to two years imprisonment.§ Yours , & c . G. M. 10 particularly distinguished . He had been educated in the.
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... death . Gilbert , Abbot of Westminster , another subscribing witness , was also of a Norman family , which had produced several great men ; among the rest , his grandfather and uncle , who were The Vale of Hurley , containing the town ...
... death . Gilbert , Abbot of Westminster , another subscribing witness , was also of a Norman family , which had produced several great men ; among the rest , his grandfather and uncle , who were The Vale of Hurley , containing the town ...
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... death in 1745 ; and dying without issue , bequeathed it to her relative , Joseph Wilcocks , Esq . , son of the Bishop , who on succeeding to it in 1771 , and not being able to let the house to a tenant , came to inhabit it himself , and ...
... death in 1745 ; and dying without issue , bequeathed it to her relative , Joseph Wilcocks , Esq . , son of the Bishop , who on succeeding to it in 1771 , and not being able to let the house to a tenant , came to inhabit it himself , and ...
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... death to God and man ; that is , half to the poor , and other pious uses , and half to his heirs and kindred . ” " His bounty , " says Fuller , " mindeth me of the words of Zaccheus to our Sa- viour : Behold , Lord , the half of my ...
... death to God and man ; that is , half to the poor , and other pious uses , and half to his heirs and kindred . ” " His bounty , " says Fuller , " mindeth me of the words of Zaccheus to our Sa- viour : Behold , Lord , the half of my ...
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Page 30 - Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Page 27 - O, speak again, bright angel ! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Page 5 - Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of .the things of the temple ? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar ? Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel.
Page 6 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by the law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen: All this I promise to do.
Page 419 - And when He had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest Thou the high priest so...
Page 27 - O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name! Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
Page 27 - Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her...
Page 51 - A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison ; her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments ; her person is angelic and her conversation heavenly ; she is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight.
Page 66 - I am the more confirmed in this by having lately gone over some of our classics, particularly Pope, whom I tried in this way, — I took Moore's poems and my own and some others, and went over them side by side with Pope's, and I was really astonished (I ought not to have been so) and mortified at the ineffable distance in point of sense, harmony, effect, and even Imagination, passion, and Invention, between the little Queen Anne's man, and us of the Lower Empire. Depend upon it, it is all Horace...
Page 229 - And the men arose, and went away : and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.