The Four Ages; Together with Essays on Various SubjectsCadell and Davies, 1798 - Počet stran: 454 |
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... the moderns , I fhall , in treating this fubject , invert the order , and endeavour to prove , that the first was the Iron - Age , and the last , when it shall please Heaven to fend it , will be that of Gold - no Golden - Age will [ 2 ]
... the moderns , I fhall , in treating this fubject , invert the order , and endeavour to prove , that the first was the Iron - Age , and the last , when it shall please Heaven to fend it , will be that of Gold - no Golden - Age will [ 2 ]
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... shall not stain my paper with many examples from the numberless instances which our hiftories furnish : but fome- thing must be produced to prove my af- sertion . Permit me then just to mention a circumstance in the death of the Duke of ...
... shall not stain my paper with many examples from the numberless instances which our hiftories furnish : but fome- thing must be produced to prove my af- sertion . Permit me then just to mention a circumstance in the death of the Duke of ...
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... shall have produced that improvement of fociety to which it naturally aspires - this is the millennium of philosophy , The idea of reverfing the order of the Four Ages , by this time , must have re- ceived its support , or must be ...
... shall have produced that improvement of fociety to which it naturally aspires - this is the millennium of philosophy , The idea of reverfing the order of the Four Ages , by this time , must have re- ceived its support , or must be ...
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... shall discriminate be- tween subjects capable of being adorned by numbers , and those which are better expreffed in profe . By rejecting com- mon phraseology , we fhall appropriate a language for poetical purposes , and at laft attain ...
... shall discriminate be- tween subjects capable of being adorned by numbers , and those which are better expreffed in profe . By rejecting com- mon phraseology , we fhall appropriate a language for poetical purposes , and at laft attain ...
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William Jackson. In music , we shall seek to express pas- fion and measure , by pleafing melody joined with pure harmony ... shall find most proper for use and grandeur of effect . * See Sir J. Reynolds's Difcourfes paffim . If If the ...
William Jackson. In music , we shall seek to express pas- fion and measure , by pleafing melody joined with pure harmony ... shall find most proper for use and grandeur of effect . * See Sir J. Reynolds's Difcourfes paffim . If If the ...
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Strana 232 - ... appearing in the club. There could be little doubt before, but now nothing could be more certain, than the reality of the apparition, which had been seen by so many persons together.
Strana 271 - Fix'd to one side, but moderate to the rest: An honest courtier, yet a patriot too, Just to his prince, and to his country true, Fill'd with the sense of age, the fire of youth, A scorn of wrangling, yet a zeal for truth; A generous faith, from superstition free; A love to peace, and hate of tyranny; Such this man was; who now, from earth remov'd, At length enjoys that liberty he lov'd.
Strana 153 - What use is your book to me if I don't understand it? And your lute, you may take it again if you won't teach me to play on it. Come home with me and give me the first lesson.' 'I will come to-morrow!