The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 60Tobias Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1785 Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue." |
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... because in musical difcuffions , it is always oppofed to high . ' What he means by faying that tune is nothing elfe but time , ' exceeds our comprehenfion . Tune is a found of a given pitch , and time the duration of it : in this way it ...
... because in musical difcuffions , it is always oppofed to high . ' What he means by faying that tune is nothing elfe but time , ' exceeds our comprehenfion . Tune is a found of a given pitch , and time the duration of it : in this way it ...
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... because there is nothing new in it . We think the fame of his fpeculations in the third chapter . · In the Hiftory of Mufic , Mr. Bruce is frequently mention- ed . As this gentleman has not yet communicated his discoveries : to the ...
... because there is nothing new in it . We think the fame of his fpeculations in the third chapter . · In the Hiftory of Mufic , Mr. Bruce is frequently mention- ed . As this gentleman has not yet communicated his discoveries : to the ...
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... because the better our inftruments were , the more clearly we perceived the bodies of which fome of the nebula were compofed . This powerful telescope has feparated many of these clusters into their component ftars ; and the milky- way ...
... because the better our inftruments were , the more clearly we perceived the bodies of which fome of the nebula were compofed . This powerful telescope has feparated many of these clusters into their component ftars ; and the milky- way ...
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... because it is less connected with the reasoning of the rest . " I know few fubjects which have been more misunderstood : than the law which ' authorifes the imprisonment of infolvent debtors . It has been reprefented as a gratuitous ...
... because it is less connected with the reasoning of the rest . " I know few fubjects which have been more misunderstood : than the law which ' authorifes the imprisonment of infolvent debtors . It has been reprefented as a gratuitous ...
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... because we are provoked by our loss , and feek to relieve the pain we feel , by that which we inflict , is repugnant not only to humanity , but to juftice ; for it is to pervert a pro- vifion of law , defigned for a different and a ...
... because we are provoked by our loss , and feek to relieve the pain we feel , by that which we inflict , is repugnant not only to humanity , but to juftice ; for it is to pervert a pro- vifion of law , defigned for a different and a ...
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Página 114 - God came from Teman, And the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, And the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness was as the light; He had horns coming out of his hand : And there was the hiding of his power.
Página 244 - Brush'd by the wind. So sportive is the light Shot through the boughs, it dances as they dance, Shadow and sunshine intermingling quick...
Página 334 - Dr. Samuel Johnson's character, religious, moral, political, and literary ; nay, his figure and manner are, I believe, more generally known than those of almost any man; yet it may not be superfluous here to attempt a sketch of him.
Página 334 - In him were united a most logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing: for he could reason close or wide, as he saw best for the moment. Exulting in his intellectual...
Página 135 - The canker blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly, When summer's breath their masked buds discloses; But for their virtue only is their show They live unwooed, and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made...
Página 248 - The cheerful haunts of man ; to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task.
Página 246 - To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue, And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own.
Página 246 - With odours, and as profligate as sweet ; Who sell their laurel for a myrtle wreath, And love when they should fight; when such as these Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause...
Página 245 - Whom call we gay ? That honour has been long The boast of mere pretenders to the name. The innocent are gay — the lark is gay, That dries his feathers, saturate with dew, Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams Of dayspring overshoot his humble nest.
Página 17 - are arranged into strata, and run on to a great length ; and some of them I have been able to pursue, and to guess pretty well at their form and direction. It is probable enough that they may surround the whole starry sphere of the heavens, not unlike the Milky Way, which undoubtedly is nothing but a stratum of fixed stars.