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Anecdotes Of The Late Hugh Kelly, Esq.
tions ; yet being written with a vivacity of imagination , a smoothness of style , and above all a continual reference to- petty habits and local amusements ; they pleased the greater part of the public , ( the middle-sized iit understanding ) and in the course of their publication we have more than once heard this question asked with some impatience at the Coffee-houses , " Well , what does the Babbler say to-day i "
The Novel of " Louisa Mildmay" is , in general , prettily and pathetically told , particularly in that part which describes her sorrow and repentance ; but in detailing the circumstances of her seduclion he has painted them in such glowing colours , and with such a minuteness of description , as we fear might have sometimes defeated the moral he meant to in » culcate . [ To be continuedJ \
A View Of The Progress Of Navigation.
A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION .
IN SEVERAL ESSAYS . [ Continued from Page 513 . ] ESSAY III . — -Of the Navigation of the Middle Ages , and of the Discovery if the Mariner ' s Compass .
AS long as the Ps . oman empire continued in splendor , it supported what it had found of navigation , but added little or nothing to it » that people being altogether intent upon making new conquests , and finding still more work than they were able to compass upon dry land , without venturing far out at sea / But when the barbarous nations began to dismember that monarchthis aitinstead of improvingdoubtless
dey , , , clined , as did all others . The first of these barbarians were the Goths and Vandals , of whom no great actions appear on the sea , their farthest expeditions on this element being in the Mediterranean , bewixt Italy and Africa , Spain and the Islands , where nothing occurs worth mentioning . The Saracens were next to them as to order of time , though much superior in naval yet contained within the same boundsand
consepower , , quently did nothing more memorable . After the Saracens may be reckoned the Normans , who for several years infested the coasts of Britain and France with their fleets from Norway , till having settled themseives _ in Normandy , they ran out plundering all the coasts of Spain , , and entering
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Anecdotes Of The Late Hugh Kelly, Esq.
tions ; yet being written with a vivacity of imagination , a smoothness of style , and above all a continual reference to- petty habits and local amusements ; they pleased the greater part of the public , ( the middle-sized iit understanding ) and in the course of their publication we have more than once heard this question asked with some impatience at the Coffee-houses , " Well , what does the Babbler say to-day i "
The Novel of " Louisa Mildmay" is , in general , prettily and pathetically told , particularly in that part which describes her sorrow and repentance ; but in detailing the circumstances of her seduclion he has painted them in such glowing colours , and with such a minuteness of description , as we fear might have sometimes defeated the moral he meant to in » culcate . [ To be continuedJ \
A View Of The Progress Of Navigation.
A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION .
IN SEVERAL ESSAYS . [ Continued from Page 513 . ] ESSAY III . — -Of the Navigation of the Middle Ages , and of the Discovery if the Mariner ' s Compass .
AS long as the Ps . oman empire continued in splendor , it supported what it had found of navigation , but added little or nothing to it » that people being altogether intent upon making new conquests , and finding still more work than they were able to compass upon dry land , without venturing far out at sea / But when the barbarous nations began to dismember that monarchthis aitinstead of improvingdoubtless
dey , , , clined , as did all others . The first of these barbarians were the Goths and Vandals , of whom no great actions appear on the sea , their farthest expeditions on this element being in the Mediterranean , bewixt Italy and Africa , Spain and the Islands , where nothing occurs worth mentioning . The Saracens were next to them as to order of time , though much superior in naval yet contained within the same boundsand
consepower , , quently did nothing more memorable . After the Saracens may be reckoned the Normans , who for several years infested the coasts of Britain and France with their fleets from Norway , till having settled themseives _ in Normandy , they ran out plundering all the coasts of Spain , , and entering