The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 101, Part 2; Volume 150F. Jefferies, 1831 The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs. |
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... effect of hollowness , which only adds a flimsy puerile look to a composition which would otherwise be a judicious and handsome design . The screen is very commonplace ; it consists of three arches , the centre broader than the others ...
... effect of hollowness , which only adds a flimsy puerile look to a composition which would otherwise be a judicious and handsome design . The screen is very commonplace ; it consists of three arches , the centre broader than the others ...
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... effect , the more so as the gables rise to a greater height . The parapet is graduated at the eastern end to con- ceal the clock , and this takes off from the bad effect on that side ; but the western gable in particular has , in ...
... effect , the more so as the gables rise to a greater height . The parapet is graduated at the eastern end to con- ceal the clock , and this takes off from the bad effect on that side ; but the western gable in particular has , in ...
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... effect . Such is usually composed of sheep - skin , with the woolly side inwards , and forms almost their only ... effects of heat and wind , and the agility and pliability ensured to the muscles and joints ; and whatever may be said ...
... effect . Such is usually composed of sheep - skin , with the woolly side inwards , and forms almost their only ... effects of heat and wind , and the agility and pliability ensured to the muscles and joints ; and whatever may be said ...
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... effect improvements in other towns in England : " " For the great advantage of its market , Plymouth is principally indebted to the ex- * This has been lately taken down , to make way for one about to be erected in the old English style ...
... effect improvements in other towns in England : " " For the great advantage of its market , Plymouth is principally indebted to the ex- * This has been lately taken down , to make way for one about to be erected in the old English style ...
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... effect is every thing ; and although in nature extravagance or folly may denote an insanity which excites a laugh , there are nevertheless acts of demoniacs or lunatics , even of idiots , which produce both wonder and terror , and under ...
... effect is every thing ; and although in nature extravagance or folly may denote an insanity which excites a laugh , there are nevertheless acts of demoniacs or lunatics , even of idiots , which produce both wonder and terror , and under ...
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Page 118 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 297 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Page 140 - There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions . of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.
Page 125 - when Dr. Johnson, one day, read his own Satire, in which the life of a scholar is painted, with the various obstructions thrown in his way to fortune and to fame, he burst into a passion of tears : Mr.
Page 225 - Johnson's own notions about eating however were nothing less than delicate : a leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal pie with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef, were his favourite dainties : with regard to drink, his liking was for the strongest, as it was not the flavour, but the effect he sought for, and professed to desire ; and when I first knew him, he used to pour capillaire into his Port wine. For the last twelve years however, he left off all...
Page 227 - The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction; pale, torpid, spiritless and helpless; gasping and groaning unpitied, among men made obdurate by long continuance...
Page 307 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Page 126 - Boswell has chosen to omit, for reasons which will be presently obvious, that Johnson and Adam Smith met at Glasgow ; but I have been assured by Professor John Miller that they did so, and that Smith, leaving the party in which he had met Johnson, happened to come to another company where Miller was.