Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 57, Part 2F. Jefferies, 1787 - Early English newspapers The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs. |
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Page 557
... useful works will the bufy , the indolent , and the lefs wealthy part of mankind be deprived of ? how few will read or purchafe forty - four large volumes of the Tranfactions of the Royal Society , which , in abridgement , are generally ...
... useful works will the bufy , the indolent , and the lefs wealthy part of mankind be deprived of ? how few will read or purchafe forty - four large volumes of the Tranfactions of the Royal Society , which , in abridgement , are generally ...
Page 563
... useful knowledge in general . In the year 1784 , they propofed the following well - known curious , and , I may add , important problem ; directing the candidates for the prizes to fend in their prop.fitions and names before the aft of ...
... useful knowledge in general . In the year 1784 , they propofed the following well - known curious , and , I may add , important problem ; directing the candidates for the prizes to fend in their prop.fitions and names before the aft of ...
Page 571
... useful Inftitutions , in your Supplement to vol . LVI . has made fome very fenfible remarks con- cerning the prefent manner of observing the Chriftian Sabbath ; the too gene- ral neglect of which duty is a matter that requires very ...
... useful Inftitutions , in your Supplement to vol . LVI . has made fome very fenfible remarks con- cerning the prefent manner of observing the Chriftian Sabbath ; the too gene- ral neglect of which duty is a matter that requires very ...
Page 580
... takes pains to accumulate facts of aggravation . The gangrene , if handled , more forely fefters ; the cause of anger , if perpetually dwelt on by the thoughts , more Efficacy of useful Employment in forming right Tempers . more.
... takes pains to accumulate facts of aggravation . The gangrene , if handled , more forely fefters ; the cause of anger , if perpetually dwelt on by the thoughts , more Efficacy of useful Employment in forming right Tempers . more.
Page 581
... useful purposes , conceived and executed mcafures the moft destruc- tive to their own fpecies . If no other benefit were derived from the difcovery of the new world in America , and of HOPE to the Eafter continent , yet the paffage by ...
... useful purposes , conceived and executed mcafures the moft destruc- tive to their own fpecies . If no other benefit were derived from the difcovery of the new world in America , and of HOPE to the Eafter continent , yet the paffage by ...
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Page 618 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard. And whelm him o'er! Such fate to suffering Worth is giv'n.
Page 618 - mang the dewy weet, Wi' spreckled breast! When upward-springing, blithe, to greet The purpling east. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Upon thy early, humble birth; Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the storm, Scarce rear'd above the parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flow'rs our gardens yield, High shelt'ring woods and wa's maun shield, But thou, beneath the random bield O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field Unseen, alane.
Page 959 - As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: your carcases shall fall in this wilderness ; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me, doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Page 584 - Thus to regulate candidates and electors, and new model the ways of election, what is it but to cut up the government by the roots, and poison the very fountain of public security?
Page 978 - Sacraments to be used in the Mother Tongue within the Church of England, agreeable to the Word of God and the Primitive Church, very comfortable to all good People desiring to live in Christian Conversation, and most profitable to the Estate of this Realm...
Page 615 - Not that always where the language is intricate the thought is subtle, or the image always great where the line is bulky. The equality of words to things is very often neglected, and trivial sentiments and vulgar ideas disappoint the attention, to which they are recommended by sonorous epithets and swelling figures.
Page 584 - For the people having reserved to themselves the choice of their representatives as the fence to their properties, could do it for no other end but that they might always be freely chosen, and, so chosen, freely act and advise as the necessity of the commonwealth and the public good should upon examination and mature debate be judged to require.
Page 590 - But let concealment like a worm i' th' bud Feed on her damask cheek: she pin'd in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like Patience on a Monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 1044 - Newcastle, the inhabitants sent for the Lee-penny, and gave a bond for a large sum in trust for the loan; and that they thought it did so much good, that they offered to pay the money, and keep the Lee-penny; but the gentleman would not part with it.
Page 1009 - State fhall enrer into any treaty, alliance, or confederation ; grant letters of marque and reprifal ; coin money ; emit bills of credit ; make any thing but gold and filver coin a tender in payment of 'debts; pafs any bill of attainder, ex poft fafto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.