The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 9H.D. Symonds, 1800 |
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... Readers , have been unwearied ; though at the fame time we well know , that to imagine that every article will pleafe every Reader , would be a molt unreasonable fuppofition . We can only , therefore , add , that we shall not relax our ...
... Readers , have been unwearied ; though at the fame time we well know , that to imagine that every article will pleafe every Reader , would be a molt unreasonable fuppofition . We can only , therefore , add , that we shall not relax our ...
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... readers with the Memoirs of Howe , Duncan , Nelfon , Warren , and others of the fame defcription , whose names make a figure on the roll of fame . We now add BRIDPORT to the lift - he is worthy of the acceffion . LORD BRIDPORT is the ...
... readers with the Memoirs of Howe , Duncan , Nelfon , Warren , and others of the fame defcription , whose names make a figure on the roll of fame . We now add BRIDPORT to the lift - he is worthy of the acceffion . LORD BRIDPORT is the ...
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... reader with a sketch of the feveral actions in which this brave officer has diftin- guished himself . But thefe conflicts with the enemy ftand inscribed on the page of history , and there will be contemplated with admiration . No effort ...
... reader with a sketch of the feveral actions in which this brave officer has diftin- guished himself . But thefe conflicts with the enemy ftand inscribed on the page of history , and there will be contemplated with admiration . No effort ...
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... reader who perufes it in the original , must be charmed with its spirit and variety . At first we were at a lofs for an appropriate felec- tion , by which a fair judgment might be formed of the work . But recollecting the commencement ...
... reader who perufes it in the original , must be charmed with its spirit and variety . At first we were at a lofs for an appropriate felec- tion , by which a fair judgment might be formed of the work . But recollecting the commencement ...
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... reader muft easily imagine , there was hope in the future profpect of the elder , which , ( in fpite of all their ad- monitions ) was not to be found in the younger . Mary was a plant on which they much depended , nor was their ...
... reader muft easily imagine , there was hope in the future profpect of the elder , which , ( in fpite of all their ad- monitions ) was not to be found in the younger . Mary was a plant on which they much depended , nor was their ...
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Página 365 - Mammon led them on, Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven ; for even in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.
Página 365 - Ransacked the Centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth For treasures better hid.
Página 11 - Had form'd the whole, and made the parts agree, That no unequal portions might be found, He moulded earth into a spacious round: Then with a breath, he gave the winds to blow; And bade the congregated waters flow.
Página 353 - States, to which the youths of fortune and talents from all parts thereof might be sent for the completion of their education in all the branches of polite literature ; in arts and sciences, in acquiring knowledge in the principles of politics and good government...
Página 415 - Excepting the streets and avenues and a small part of the ground adjoining the public buildings, the whole place is covered with trees. To be under the necessity of going through a deep wood for one or two miles, perhaps, in order to see a next-door neighbor, and in the same city, is a curious and, I believe, a novel circumstance.
Página 351 - Item. — Whereas by a law of the Commonwealth of Virginia, enacted in the year 1785, the Legislature thereof was pleased, as an evidence of its approbation of the services I had rendered the public during the Revolution, and partly, I believe, in consideration of my having suggested the vast advantages which the community would derive from the extension of its inland navigation under legislative...
Página 352 - ... to see the youth of these United States sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education, often before their minds were formed or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of the happiness of their own, contracting too frequently not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican government and to the true and genuine liberties of mankind, •which thereafter are rarely overcome.
Página 349 - IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. I, GEORGE WASHINGTON, of Mount Vernon, a citizen of the United States, and lately President of the same, do make, ordain, and declare this instrument, which is written with my own hand, and every page thereof subscribed with my name,« to be my last WILL and TESTAMENT, revoking all others.
Página 350 - ... the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor; it not being in my power, under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held, to manumit them.
Página 18 - Aug. 1579, founded this Charity for Six poor Travellers, who not being ROGUES, or PROCTORS, May receive gratis for one Night, Lodging, Entertainment, and Four-pence each.