The Retrospective Review, Bind 14Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1826 |
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... fact ; and to White's Natural History of Selborne , by parity of reasoning , we feel inclined to assign the merit of that increas- ing attachment to the study of natural history which , since his day , has been making such rapid strides ...
... fact ; and to White's Natural History of Selborne , by parity of reasoning , we feel inclined to assign the merit of that increas- ing attachment to the study of natural history which , since his day , has been making such rapid strides ...
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... fact a legacy of 60 per annum , left by his friend Willoughby , being his chief support for the remaining forty years of his life , ) it ought to be recorded , to the eternal honour of this virtuous and exemplary Christian , that he ...
... fact a legacy of 60 per annum , left by his friend Willoughby , being his chief support for the remaining forty years of his life , ) it ought to be recorded , to the eternal honour of this virtuous and exemplary Christian , that he ...
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... fact , at least to its extent , his remark being , that " they sometimes weigh four- teen or fifteen pounds , but with us seldom exceed that weight . " Having thus commenced with fish , as the top dish of our entertainment , we shall ...
... fact , at least to its extent , his remark being , that " they sometimes weigh four- teen or fifteen pounds , but with us seldom exceed that weight . " Having thus commenced with fish , as the top dish of our entertainment , we shall ...
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... fact , before they venture to publish it to the world under the sanction of their own hand and seal . " Tis commonly reported with us , of the heron and bittour , ( bittern , ) that they have but one wide gut ; and , therefore , they ...
... fact , before they venture to publish it to the world under the sanction of their own hand and seal . " Tis commonly reported with us , of the heron and bittour , ( bittern , ) that they have but one wide gut ; and , therefore , they ...
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... fact , we have , ourselves , a very vivid recollection of an ample supply of animals , to all external appearance " fine lively tur- tles , " collected as part of the piscatory fasting stores for the use of a large convent in Andalusia ...
... fact , we have , ourselves , a very vivid recollection of an ample supply of animals , to all external appearance " fine lively tur- tles , " collected as part of the piscatory fasting stores for the use of a large convent in Andalusia ...
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Side 316 - O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point...
Side 105 - Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Side 296 - Latin — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to their own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse, than else they would have expressed them.
Side 288 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare, for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Side 304 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Side 215 - Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
Side 297 - ... philosophers and other gravest writers, as Cicero, Plutarch, and others, frequently cite out of tragic poets, both to adorn and illustrate their discourse. The apostle Paul himself thought it not unworthy to insert a verse of Euripides into the text of Holy Scripture, 1 Cor. xv. 33; and Pareeus commenting on the Revelation, divides the whole book as a tragedy, into acts distinguished each by a chorus of heavenly harpings and song between.
Side 297 - Tragedy, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems : therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terrour, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Side 168 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death In the high places of the field.
Side 283 - Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Second Edition Revised and Augmented by the same Author. London, Printed by S. Simmons next door to the Golden Lion in Aldersgate-street, 1674.