Monthly Magazine; Or, British Register of Literature, Sciences and the Belles- Lettres, Volume 14Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1803 - Art |
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... defign of emigrating to America , but the perfuafion of his friends prevailed upon him to relinquish this scheme . It being fuggefted in Liverpool , that a course of lectures on chemistry and experimental philofophy would , in all ...
... defign of emigrating to America , but the perfuafion of his friends prevailed upon him to relinquish this scheme . It being fuggefted in Liverpool , that a course of lectures on chemistry and experimental philofophy would , in all ...
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... defign has two objects in View : -to provide for the honourable and uneleemofynary relief of men of letters , members of the inftitution , in fickness and extreme old age , and for their decent bu- rial ; and annually to distribute ...
... defign has two objects in View : -to provide for the honourable and uneleemofynary relief of men of letters , members of the inftitution , in fickness and extreme old age , and for their decent bu- rial ; and annually to distribute ...
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... defign - therefore he had made bold to carry off the goods he had borrowed of them . " So saying , he rode off , leaving the deluded Friburgers in a state of ludi- crous surprize and mortification . TWO SINGULAR PASSAGES IN ARIOSTO ...
... defign - therefore he had made bold to carry off the goods he had borrowed of them . " So saying , he rode off , leaving the deluded Friburgers in a state of ludi- crous surprize and mortification . TWO SINGULAR PASSAGES IN ARIOSTO ...
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... defign , bothr external and internal , and the workmanship throughout is executed in a style and manner , which reflects the highest credit on the con- tractor . Married . ] At Winwick , Mr. J. Bate , lieutenant in the late Royal ...
... defign , bothr external and internal , and the workmanship throughout is executed in a style and manner , which reflects the highest credit on the con- tractor . Married . ] At Winwick , Mr. J. Bate , lieutenant in the late Royal ...
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... defign of ren- dering the meadow fertile , and the spot which he inhabited falubrious . He had observed the good effects of the plan adopted by the celebrated Bradley , to drain the plain between Bourget and St. Denis , which , at the ...
... defign of ren- dering the meadow fertile , and the spot which he inhabited falubrious . He had observed the good effects of the plan adopted by the celebrated Bradley , to drain the plain between Bourget and St. Denis , which , at the ...
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Page 102 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 486 - And (to me) it seems no less evident that the various sensations or ideas imprinted on the sense, however blended or combined together (that is, whatever objects they compose), cannot exist otherwise than in a mind perceiving them. I think an intuitive knowledge may be obtained of this, by any one that shall attend to what is meant by the term exist, when applied to sensible things.
Page 485 - IT is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses; or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind; or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination— either compounding, dividing, or barely representing those originally perceived in the aforesaid ways.
Page 327 - Lord, (said I) if it please your grace, I doe give now, but when I beg any thing, then I will kneele.
Page 102 - Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year /,» Seafons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the fweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or fight of vernal bloom, or...
Page 487 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind, that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, to wit, that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind, that their being is to be perceived or known...
Page 224 - I praise you, triflers as ye are, More than those preachers of your fav'rite creed, Who proudly swell the brazen throat of war, Who form the phalanx, bid the battle bleed ; Nor wish for more : who conquer, but to die.
Page 336 - Thefe are raifed in fucceffion by means of levers, the ends of which are dcprefled by the pins of wheels turned by an axis communicating with the water-wheel.
Page 173 - Tableaux, statues, bas-reliefs et camées de la galerie de Florence et du palais Pitti, dessinés par Wicar, et gravés sous la direction de Lacombe et Masquelier, avec les explications par Mongez l'aîné , etc.
Page 487 - I can abstract, if that may properly be called abstraction which extends only to the conceiving separately such objects as it is possible may really exist or be actually perceived asunder. But my conceiving or imagining power...