The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 5Published for the proprietors, 1836 |
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... less time was required to form a regular lan- guage ; and yet we have no such monuments even in this polite part of Europe . The art of writing was a long time unknown to all the North : the patriarch Constantine , who wrote the history ...
... less time was required to form a regular lan- guage ; and yet we have no such monuments even in this polite part of Europe . The art of writing was a long time unknown to all the North : the patriarch Constantine , who wrote the history ...
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... less popu- lous than Spain , but contains near four times the number of inhabitants ; it is almost as populous as France or Germany ; but , if we consider its vast extent , the number of souls is thirty times less . this state to their ...
... less popu- lous than Spain , but contains near four times the number of inhabitants ; it is almost as populous as France or Germany ; but , if we consider its vast extent , the number of souls is thirty times less . this state to their ...
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... less men are civilized , the more easily they are imposed on . It may readily be conceived , how much these frauds aug- mented the public contusion and misfortunes . The Poles , who had begun the revolutions , by setting up the first ...
... less men are civilized , the more easily they are imposed on . It may readily be conceived , how much these frauds aug- mented the public contusion and misfortunes . The Poles , who had begun the revolutions , by setting up the first ...
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... less than a year after their nuptials , he took for his second wife , in 1682 , Martha Mat- weowna , daughter of the secretary Nariskin . * Some months after this marriage , he was seized with the disorder which ended his days , and ...
... less than a year after their nuptials , he took for his second wife , in 1682 , Martha Mat- weowna , daughter of the secretary Nariskin . * Some months after this marriage , he was seized with the disorder which ended his days , and ...
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... less expected , that a prince , who was subject to such a constitutional dread of water , as to subject him to cold sweats , and even convulsions , when he was obliged to cross a small river or brook , should become one of the best ...
... less expected , that a prince , who was subject to such a constitutional dread of water , as to subject him to cold sweats , and even convulsions , when he was obliged to cross a small river or brook , should become one of the best ...
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Page 17 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home : Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Page 16 - Grace, And calls forth all the Wonders of her Face ; Sees by Degrees a purer Blush arise, And keener Lightnings quicken in her Eyes.
Page 16 - But chiefly Love— to Love an Altar built, Of twelve vast French Romances, neatly gilt. There lay three garters, half a pair of gloves; And all the trophies of his former loves...
Page 19 - On various tempers act by various ways, Make some take physic, others scribble plays; Who cause the proud their visits to delay, And send the godly in a pet to pray. A nymph there is, that all thy power disdains, And thousands more in equal mirth maintains. But oh! if e'er thy gnome could spoil a grace, Or raise a pimple on a beauteous face, Like citron-waters matrons...
Page 16 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if Belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all. This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourish'd two locks which graceful hung behind In equal curls, and well conspired to deck With...
Page 16 - Beaux banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive. This erring mortals levity may call ; Oh blind to truth ! the sylphs contrive it all.
Page 86 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 17 - Lock ; Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock. " To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note, We trust th...