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The British Essayists: The Adventurer - Page xviii
by Alexander Chalmers - 1802
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 524 pages
...after the publication of his Voyages, notice was given by the infamous editors of a certain magazine, that " All the amorous passages and descriptions in...Collection of Voyages should: be selected, and illustrated by & suitable plate," a threat which was immediately after carried into execution; and thus was the...
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Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1810 - 532 pages
...his .Voyages, notice was given by the infamous editors of n certain magazine, that " All the amormit passages and descriptions in Dr. Hawk th's Collection of Voyages should be selected, and illustrated by a suitable plate," a threat which was immediately after carried into execution; and thus was the...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 528 pages
...his Voyages, notice was given by the infamous editors of a certain magazine, that " All the amormn passages and descriptions in Dr. Hawk th's Collection of Voyages should be selected, and illustrated by a. suitable ptate," a threat which was immediately after carried into execution; and. thus was the...
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ..., Volume 17

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 544 pages
...efficacy of prayer, of which he was not, however, insensible when he wrote No. 28 of the Adventurer. An innumerable host of enemies now appeared in the...(should be) selected and illustrated with a suitable plute." And this, in defiance of public decency, was actually done, and he whose fame had been raised...
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The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 17

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 540 pages
...efficacy of prayer, of which he was not, however, insensible when he wrote No. 28 of the Adventurer. An innumerable host of enemies now appeared in the...detestable depravity that the human mind can invent. That such a reception given to a work of which he thought he might be proud, and from which he drew...
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

Biography - 1814 - 540 pages
...some exercised their wit in poetical translations and epigrams ; these might hurt his feelings its an author ; but the greater part, who arraigned his...partnership in the most detestable depravity that the human rnind can invent. That such a reception given to a work of which he thought he might be proud, and...
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 536 pages
...But what, we are told, completed his chagrin, was the notice frequently given in an infamous magazme published at that time, that " All the amorous passages...detestable depravity that the human mind can invent. That such a reception given to a work of which he thought he might be proud, and from which he drew...
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Kentish poets, a series of writers, natives of or residents in ..., Volume 2

Rowland Freeman - 1821 - 450 pages
...that lamented event * The editor of an infamous publication of that day, after giving repeated notice that " all the amorous passages and descriptions in...selected, and illustrated with a suitable plate,"— actually carried his vile purpose into effect. + These were principally .pointed out by Mr. Dalrymple,...
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Kentish Poets: A Series of Writers in English Poetry, Natives ..., Volumes 1-2

Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...publication of thai day, after giving repeated notice that " all the amorous passages and de> scriptions in Dr. Hawk- — th's Collection of Voyages, should...selected, and illustrated with a suitable plate,"— actually carried his vile purpose into effect. t These were principally pointed out by Mr. Dalrymple,...
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The British Essayists: Adventurer

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 650 pages
...providence. He had been guilty, also, of some nautical omissions, for which he was loudly blamed. ' .An innumerable host of enemies now appeared in the...detestable depravity that the human mind can invent*.' This reception of a work, in the execution of which he had prided himself not unjustly, and from which...
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