The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information ... Containing General Correspondence, Classical Disquisitions, Account of Rare and Curious Books, Memoirs of Distinguished Persons, Original Poetry, Literary and Miscellaneous Information, Volume 1John Aikin Longmans, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... , AND PRICES OF GRAIN . CONDUCTED BY J. AIKIN , M. D. JANUARY TO JUNE 1807 . VOL . I. LONDON : PRINTED FOR LONGMAN , HURST , REES , AND ORME , PATERNOSTER - ROW ; deat but ( . Arts AT & ADVERTISEMENT . THE Î SOCIETY ICAL.
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... river de la Plata in June , and after a defeat of the Spanish troops in the beginning of July , the town was surrendered . Its port port was immediately opened for the reception of British merchandise 66 [ Jan. RETROSPECT OF.
... river de la Plata in June , and after a defeat of the Spanish troops in the beginning of July , the town was surrendered . Its port port was immediately opened for the reception of British merchandise 66 [ Jan. RETROSPECT OF.
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... June to a kind of mixed monarchy , of which Louis Bonaparte was proclaimed the head , with the hitherto unknown title in the annals of Europe , of King of Holland . Thus Napoleon , in one half - year , almost without a contest , raised ...
... June to a kind of mixed monarchy , of which Louis Bonaparte was proclaimed the head , with the hitherto unknown title in the annals of Europe , of King of Holland . Thus Napoleon , in one half - year , almost without a contest , raised ...
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... June 29 , 1806 , being Commencement Sunday . By Edward Maltby , D. D. 4to . 28 . The Fathers of the English Church ; or , Selections from the Writings of the Reformers and Early Divines of the English Protestant Church . No. I. 18 . The ...
... June 29 , 1806 , being Commencement Sunday . By Edward Maltby , D. D. 4to . 28 . The Fathers of the English Church ; or , Selections from the Writings of the Reformers and Early Divines of the English Protestant Church . No. I. 18 . The ...
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... June 30th . It was afterwards introduced to the senate , and passed , with an amendment to give the President the power of sus- pending it to the end of the year 1807 . The political occurrences at home during the current month have ...
... June 30th . It was afterwards introduced to the senate , and passed , with an amendment to give the President the power of sus- pending it to the end of the year 1807 . The political occurrences at home during the current month have ...
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Page 146 - Look once more ere we leave this specular mount Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence...
Page 172 - I communicate also a statistical view, procured and forwarded by him, of the Indian nations inhabiting the Territory of Louisiana...
Page 265 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Page 146 - So far in relation to the upper terminus of the long man; next, with reference to the lower terminus, Gibbon goes on: " And that his pupils, ^Eschines and Demosthenes, contended for the crown of patriotism in the presence of Aristotle, the master of Theophrastus, who taught at Athens with the founders of the Stoic and Epicurean sects.
Page 245 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Page 459 - To bear the ills they have, Than fly to others that they know not of.
Page 120 - Fables; but he frankly declared to me his mind, "that he did not delight in that learning, because he did not believe they were true"; for which reason I found he had very much turned his studies, for about a twelve-month past, into the lives and adventures of don Bellianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other historians of that age.
Page 65 - Like fears that cross the mind, Like meteors gleaming through the night, Like thunders on the wind. The vision of the tomb is past ; Beyond it who can tell In what mysterious region cast Immortal spirits dwell ? I know not, but I soon shall know When life's sore conflicts cease, When this desponding heart lies low, And I shall rest in peace. For see, on Death's bewildering wave, The rainbow Hope arise, A bridge of glory o'er the grave, That bends beyond the skies.
Page 115 - Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. Our trees rise in cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush.
Page 6 - The excellent lady, the Lady Lizard, in the space of one summer, furnished a gallery with chairs and couches of her own and her daughters' working ; and at the same time heard all Dr.