A History of the Earth, and Animated NatureWilliam Sprent, 1854 - 998 strani |
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... continue your regards might be attributed to wrong motives . My letters might be looked upon as the petitions of a beggar , and not the offerings of a friend : while all my professions , in- stead of being considered as the result of ...
... continue your regards might be attributed to wrong motives . My letters might be looked upon as the petitions of a beggar , and not the offerings of a friend : while all my professions , in- stead of being considered as the result of ...
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... continues to be turned round . As the earth receives light and motion from the sun , so it derives much of its warmth ... continue for one - half of the year in night , receive but few of the genial comforts that other parts of the world ...
... continues to be turned round . As the earth receives light and motion from the sun , so it derives much of its warmth ... continue for one - half of the year in night , receive but few of the genial comforts that other parts of the world ...
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... continue entire . So much for Woodward ; but of all the systems which were published respecting the earth's formation , that of Whiston was most applauded and most opposed . Nor need we wonder ; for being supported with all the pa- rade ...
... continue entire . So much for Woodward ; but of all the systems which were published respecting the earth's formation , that of Whiston was most applauded and most opposed . Nor need we wonder ; for being supported with all the pa- rade ...
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... continues as spacious as we ever knew it . This is not the place for an inquiry into the seeming vegetation of those stony ... continue working . This difference in the air was supposed by Boyle to proceed from magazines of fire that lay ...
... continues as spacious as we ever knew it . This is not the place for an inquiry into the seeming vegetation of those stony ... continue working . This difference in the air was supposed by Boyle to proceed from magazines of fire that lay ...
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... continue above three minutes , yet nearly 19,000 of the inhabitants of Sicily perished in the ruins . Catanea , to which the describer was travel- ling , seemed the principal scene of ruin ; its site only was to be found , and not a ...
... continue above three minutes , yet nearly 19,000 of the inhabitants of Sicily perished in the ruins . Catanea , to which the describer was travel- ling , seemed the principal scene of ruin ; its site only was to be found , and not a ...
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amusement animal appear Ballymahon beautiful become beginning Bennet Langton bezoar body Boswell breed Buffon called carnivorous CHAP chiefly climate colour considered continue Countess of Northumberland Covent Garden covered creature earth elephant enemy extremely eyes feet female flesh forest former friends furnished Garrick give Goldsmith Greenland guinea hair head horns horse hyæna inches inhabitants Johnson kind known Lapland legs less lion literary live mankind manner motion mountains mouth native Nature never obliged observed OLIVER GOLDSMITH perceived poet poor prey produced proportion pursue quadrupeds quantity rabbit resembles rest rivers round savage says scarce seems seen seldom Senegal short side sidered Sir Joshua Reynolds skin sometimes soon stag substance supposed surface tail teeth tion Traveller trees usually variety vegetables Vicar of Wakefield whole wild William Filby wind young
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Stran 37 - ... which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon return; and, having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill.
Stran 49 - Goldsmith's putting himself against another, is like a man laying a hundred to one who cannot spare the hundred. It is not worth a man's while. A man should not lay a hundred to one, unless he can easily spare it, though he has a hundred chances for him : he can get but a guinea, and he may lose a hundred. Goldsmith is in this state. When he contends, if he gets the better, it is a very little addition to a man of his literary reputation : if he does not get the better, he is miserably vexed.
Stran 33 - ... remarkably decorous philosopher. Instead of which, down from his bedchamber, about noon, came, as newly risen, a huge uncouth figure, with a little dark wig which scarcely covered his head, and his clothes hanging loose about him. But his conversation was so rich, so animated, and so forcible, and his religious and political notions so congenial with those in which Langton had been educated, that he conceived for him that veneration and attachment which he ever preserved.
Stran 49 - For instance (said he), the fable of the little fishes, who saw birds fly over their heads, and, envying them, petitioned Jupiter to be changed into birds. The skill (continued he) consists in making them talk like little fishes.
Stran 67 - Robertson would be crushed with his own weight — would be buried under his own ornaments. Goldsmith tells you shortly all you want to know; Robertson detains you a great deal too long. No man will read Robertson's cumbrous detail a second time ; but Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils, ' Read over your compositions, and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike...
Stran 67 - China; that a dog-butcher is as common there as any other butcher; and that when he walks abroad all the dogs fall on him. JOHNSON. That is not owing to his killing dogs, Sir. I remember a butcher at Lichfield, whom a dog that was in the house where I lived, always attacked.
Stran 111 - Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman ? I will not be baited with what and why ; what is this ? what is that ? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy ?" The gentleman, who was a good deal out of countenance, said, " Why, Sir, you are so good, that I venture to trouble you.
Stran 85 - England, for which I have been a good deal abused in the news-papers for betraying the liberties of the people. God knows I had no thought for or against liberty in my head ; my whole aim being to make up a book of a decent size, that, as "Squire Richard says, would do no harm to nobody.