Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged, Volume 53R. Griffiths., 1776 Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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... friends , though school'd by fear To bow the fupple knee , and court the times With shows of fair obeifance ; and a call , Like mine , might ferve belike to wake pretensions Drowfier than theirs , who boast the genuine blood Of our ...
... friends , though school'd by fear To bow the fupple knee , and court the times With shows of fair obeifance ; and a call , Like mine , might ferve belike to wake pretensions Drowfier than theirs , who boast the genuine blood Of our ...
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... after a beck near Dun- meil raife , when I entered Wetmoreland a fecond time ; and now His friend had requested him to write an epitaph on the child . " began began to fee Holm - crag , diftinguished from its 10 Gray's Poems .
... after a beck near Dun- meil raife , when I entered Wetmoreland a fecond time ; and now His friend had requested him to write an epitaph on the child . " began began to fee Holm - crag , diftinguished from its 10 Gray's Poems .
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... friends and good fubjects , and they will become foch . The affections of the common fubjects of a kingdom , to the prevailing government and the reigning prince , are always pro- portioned to the advantages they enjoy under them ; and ...
... friends and good fubjects , and they will become foch . The affections of the common fubjects of a kingdom , to the prevailing government and the reigning prince , are always pro- portioned to the advantages they enjoy under them ; and ...
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... friends . The nature of his fubject naturally leads the author to give a fide glance towards America ; but a western is apprehended to be a bad light for his Irish landscape : or , to adopt his own figure , on a different occafion , to ...
... friends . The nature of his fubject naturally leads the author to give a fide glance towards America ; but a western is apprehended to be a bad light for his Irish landscape : or , to adopt his own figure , on a different occafion , to ...
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... friends , concerned in the compofition of it . We have moft highly offended Dr. Rowley's delicacy , by re- prefenting him as advertising a great number of cures in can- cerous , venereal , and other cafes . ' He here , with the confi ...
... friends , concerned in the compofition of it . We have moft highly offended Dr. Rowley's delicacy , by re- prefenting him as advertising a great number of cures in can- cerous , venereal , and other cafes . ' He here , with the confi ...
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Page 76 - The march of the human mind is slow. Sir, it was not until after two hundred years discovered that, by an eternal law, Providence had decreed vexation to violence, and poverty to rapine. Your ancestors did however at length open their eyes to the ill husbandry of injustice.
Page 391 - TAKE heed that the persons, whom ye present unto us, be apt and meet, for their learning and godly conversation, to exercise their Ministry duly, to the honour of God, and the edifying of his Church.
Page 75 - The irregular things done in the confusion of mighty troubles and on the hinge of great revolutions, even if all were done that is said to have been done, form no example. If they have any effect in argument they make an exception to prove the rule. None of your own liberties could stand a moment if the casual deviations from them at such times were suffered to be used as proofs of their nullity.
Page 103 - And in my breast the imperfect joys expire; Yet Morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear And weep the more because I weep in vain.
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Page 78 - But, sir, your ancestors thought this sort of virtual representation, however ample, to be totally insufficient for the freedom of the inhabitants of territories that are so near, and comparatively so inconsiderable. How then can I think it sufficient for those which are infinitely greater, and infinitely more remote...
Page 73 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy.
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Page 486 - ... sworn to determine, not according to his own private judgment, but according to the known laws and customs of the land ; not delegated to pronounce a new law, but to maintain and expound the old one.
Page 103 - Flush'd with mirth and hope they burn: But none from Cattraeth's vale return, Save Aeron brave, and Conan strong (Bursting through the bloody throng), And I, the meanest...