The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 9H.D. Symonds, 1800 |
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... rivers makes . " Some part , in earth are fwallow'd up , the most In ample oceans difembogu'd , are loft . He fhades the woods , the vallies he restrains With rocky mountains , and extends the plains . And as five zones th ' æthereal ...
... rivers makes . " Some part , in earth are fwallow'd up , the most In ample oceans difembogu'd , are loft . He fhades the woods , the vallies he restrains With rocky mountains , and extends the plains . And as five zones th ' æthereal ...
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... river of any fize , an obfervation applicable to most of the English towns . Here is a canal , by means of which it is supplied with coals from a confiderable diftance . 19th September . The weather is ftill exceffively warm , and the ...
... river of any fize , an obfervation applicable to most of the English towns . Here is a canal , by means of which it is supplied with coals from a confiderable diftance . 19th September . The weather is ftill exceffively warm , and the ...
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... river , and fo it is , but it is inferior to most of the Scotch rivers . It has barely half fo much water as the Tay at Perth , and the tide comes only to Gainsborough , which is twenty miles be- low Nottingham ; but the river is ...
... river , and fo it is , but it is inferior to most of the Scotch rivers . It has barely half fo much water as the Tay at Perth , and the tide comes only to Gainsborough , which is twenty miles be- low Nottingham ; but the river is ...
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... rivers bind , White defcend'the winter fnows . On the founding plain I rove , While conflicting ftorms engage ; Bleft with her whom moft I love , What to me the boift'rous rage ? Blow , ye furious tempefts blow ! Love's foft paffion ...
... rivers bind , White defcend'the winter fnows . On the founding plain I rove , While conflicting ftorms engage ; Bleft with her whom moft I love , What to me the boift'rous rage ? Blow , ye furious tempefts blow ! Love's foft paffion ...
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... river was the only domeftic bufinefs which he regularly pursued . In 1779 we visited him and tried the following experiment . He was attended to the river by a perfon who emptied his buckets repeatedly after Peter had repeatedly filled ...
... river was the only domeftic bufinefs which he regularly pursued . In 1779 we visited him and tried the following experiment . He was attended to the river by a perfon who emptied his buckets repeatedly after Peter had repeatedly filled ...
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Passagens conhecidas
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.