The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal

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R. Griffiths, 1797
 

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الصفحة 435 - Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be ! — Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. — He dies, and makes no sign : O God, forgive him ! War.
الصفحة 81 - An universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds Perverse all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire," — this would doubtless have been noble writing.
الصفحة 107 - I've let lodgings ten years ; I'ma baker to boot ; In airing your sheets, sir, my wife is no sloven ; And your bed is immediately over my oven." " The oven ! " says Will. Says the host, " Why this passion ? In that excellent bed died three people of fashion. Why so crusty, good sir...
الصفحة 354 - ... containing also An Account of the Gradual Reformation, and Present Improved State, of the Penal Laws of Pennsylvania, with Observations on the Impolicy and Injustice of Capital Punishments. In a Letter to a Friend. By Robert J. Turnbull. ' ' Vitiorum f emina — otium — labore ex hauriendum.
الصفحة 138 - His face, for an old man, was one of the finest we have seen. A clear, smooth forehead ; an aquiline nose ; an eye, the brightest and most piercing that can be conceived ; and a freshness of complexion, scarcely ever to be found at his years ; and, impressive of the most perfect health, conspired to render him a venerable and interesting figure.
الصفحة 36 - A heedless wretch has cross'd the way ; He gasps, the thundering hoofs below ; — But, live who can, or die who may, Still, " Forward, forward !
الصفحة 107 - I've enough of them there without paying for drugs ! ' Will kicked out the doctor ; but when ill indeed, e'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed ; so, calling his host, he said : ' Sir, do you know, I'm the fat single gentleman six months ago ? Look'e, landlord, I think...
الصفحة 452 - So absolute indeed was the authority of the crown, that the precious spark of liberty had been kindled, and was preserved by the puritans alone ; and it was to this sect, whose principles appear so frivolous and habits so ridiculous, that the English owe the whole freedom of their constitution.
الصفحة 394 - And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us ; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
الصفحة 170 - Agrarian justice, opposed to agrarian law, and to agrarian monopoly. Being a plan for meliorating the condition of man. By creating in every nation, a national fund, to pay...

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