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... OBSERVATIONS . 27. Á small black fly destroys the leaves and fruit of the black currant . - June 2 . May 19. Weather cold ; many horfes that were turned out to grafs dangerously ill with fore throats . 25. Nightingales have for fome ...
... OBSERVATIONS . 27. Á small black fly destroys the leaves and fruit of the black currant . - June 2 . May 19. Weather cold ; many horfes that were turned out to grafs dangerously ill with fore throats . 25. Nightingales have for fome ...
Page 643
... investigation , but to come boldly to it . If they do not , their labours , inftead of promoting science , will rather retard it . For , observe , that we have read them with confiderable pleasure 1791. ] 643 Review of New Publications .
... investigation , but to come boldly to it . If they do not , their labours , inftead of promoting science , will rather retard it . For , observe , that we have read them with confiderable pleasure 1791. ] 643 Review of New Publications .
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... observe , that we have read them with confiderable pleasure , and ( which we deem no mean praife ) think them in every respect worthy of their ingenious author . His notes on the principal poem evince much select and various reading ...
... observe , that we have read them with confiderable pleasure , and ( which we deem no mean praife ) think them in every respect worthy of their ingenious author . His notes on the principal poem evince much select and various reading ...
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... OBSERVATIONS . 27. Wheat in bloom . 29. Thunder ftorm.— 18. Corn not forwarder than last year . 15. Remarkable honey - dews ever fince the beginning of this month . July 4. Thunder ftorm . 5. Thunder at a small distance . 9. Very cold ...
... OBSERVATIONS . 27. Wheat in bloom . 29. Thunder ftorm.— 18. Corn not forwarder than last year . 15. Remarkable honey - dews ever fince the beginning of this month . July 4. Thunder ftorm . 5. Thunder at a small distance . 9. Very cold ...
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... observations thereon , with a view of getting one step nearer to a difcovery of the cause of these appearances ; and , fhould any of your correfpondents favour me with hints of the different kinds of obferva- tions neceffary to be made ...
... observations thereon , with a view of getting one step nearer to a difcovery of the cause of these appearances ; and , fhould any of your correfpondents favour me with hints of the different kinds of obferva- tions neceffary to be made ...
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Page 592 - I am solitary and cannot impart it; till I am known and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page 592 - ... it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page 592 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help...
Page 592 - World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the publick, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the...
Page 1123 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed. And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 973 - Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate ; Beneath the good how far — but far above the great ! ODE VI.
Page 844 - Tis heav'n has brought me to the state you see; And your condition may be soon like mine, The child of sorrow and of misery.
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Page 1124 - For him in vain his anxious wife shall wait, Or wander forth to meet him on his way; For him in vain, at to-fall of the day, His babes shall linger at. th' unclosing gate: Ah, ne'er shall he.
Page 1088 - When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates. And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye. The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.