The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Volumen7J. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1796 |
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... prefent century it ceafed to be one of the most flourish ing botanical gardens of Europe . The dreadful conflagration which convert Linnæus now became its fecond creator . In a few years he raised fuch a temple to Flora as had never ...
... prefent century it ceafed to be one of the most flourish ing botanical gardens of Europe . The dreadful conflagration which convert Linnæus now became its fecond creator . In a few years he raised fuch a temple to Flora as had never ...
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... prefent life ; therefore I pray to Almighty God to deliver me out of this prefent life , that we may be laid and diffolved in the earth , wherefrom we came , ' & c . -Lindsay of Pitfcottie . Buchanan , duty to love all men , of what ...
... prefent life ; therefore I pray to Almighty God to deliver me out of this prefent life , that we may be laid and diffolved in the earth , wherefrom we came , ' & c . -Lindsay of Pitfcottie . Buchanan , duty to love all men , of what ...
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... prefent ftare , yet all this , in the eftimation of found policy , will avail very little , if upon investigation it fhall be found that inclofures , even in the smallest degree , give counte- nance to the introduction of fo dan- gerous ...
... prefent ftare , yet all this , in the eftimation of found policy , will avail very little , if upon investigation it fhall be found that inclofures , even in the smallest degree , give counte- nance to the introduction of fo dan- gerous ...
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... prefent campaign , the trump of fame has fufficiently informed you , but there is a trait of his heart in private and domestic life , which I receive from the moft unquestionable autho- rity , and which will endear him to you more than ...
... prefent campaign , the trump of fame has fufficiently informed you , but there is a trait of his heart in private and domestic life , which I receive from the moft unquestionable autho- rity , and which will endear him to you more than ...
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... prefent intention is not to give a detail of such objects as come under the province of hiftory . We may diftinguish the political career of Sieyes into three intervals ; from the opening of the States Ge- neral to that of the ...
... prefent intention is not to give a detail of such objects as come under the province of hiftory . We may diftinguish the political career of Sieyes into three intervals ; from the opening of the States Ge- neral to that of the ...
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Página 85 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself...
Página 85 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help...
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Página 85 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your...
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