The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year ..., Volume 11

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G. Robinson, Pater-noster-Row, 1791 - English poetry

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Page 38 - Deal not foolishly:" and to the wicked, "Lift not up the horn: "Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
Page 42 - Cayenne pepper, and fossil salt; they then wrap it up in the teff bread like a cartridge. In the meantime the man, having put up his knife, with each hand resting upon his neighbour's knee, his body stooping, his head low and forward, and mouth open, very like an idiot...
Page 64 - Perfians, with refpecl to outward behaviour, are certainly the Parifians of the Eaft. Whilft a rude and infolent demeanour peculiarly marks the character of the Turkifh nation towards foreigners and Chriftians, the behaviour of the Perfians would, on the contrary, do honour to the moft civilized nations: they are kind, courteous, civil and obliging to all ftrangers, without being guided by...
Page 42 - The greater the man would seem to be, the larger piece he takes in his mouth; and the more noise 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.
Page iv - England is not a mere monarchy, as some, for lack of consideration, think, nor a mere oligarchy, nor democracy, but a rule mixed of all these, wherein each one of these have, or should have, like authority. The image whereof, and not the image, but the thing indeed, is to be seen in the parliament house, wherein you shall find these three estates : the king or queen, which representeth the monarchy; the noblemen, which be the aristocracy ; and the burgesses and knights, the democracy.
Page 159 - To thofe who wear the nobleft regal bays : That mighty Main, which on its confcious tide, Their boundlefs commerce pours on every clime, Their dauntlefs banner bears fublime ; Which wafts their pomp of war and fpreads their thunder wide Í • . . .1 •... i ODE ODE to SUPERSTÍTIOILfFrom the SPECULATOR, Vol.
Page 121 - ... and the confequence feems to be, either that the water will freeze, and, by expanding, burft the containing body, be it ever fo thick and...
Page 43 - ... time, while with each hand he puts their portion into their mouths. He then falls to drinking out of a large handsome horn; the ladies eat till they are satisfied, and then all drink together...
Page iv - ... all that ever the people of Rome might do either in centuriatis comitiis or tributis, the same may be done by the parliament of England, which representeth and hath the power of the whole realm both the head and the body.
Page 151 - Handing narrow at the roundboiie, to give fafety to the dam, and activity to her produce ; and, perhaps, for various other reafons. " The udder large when full, but loofe and thin when empty, that it may contain the greater quantity of milk ; with large " dug veins" to fill it ; and with long elaftic teats, for the greater eafe in drawing it off.

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