Edinburgh Magazine: Or Literary Miscellany, Volums 14-15J. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1800 |
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Pàgina 26
... given him . As many men , eminent for science and literature , have admitted the re- ality of this apparently ufelefs gift , we hall , without interpofing our own opinion , give the reflections of two of the first characters of the age ...
... given him . As many men , eminent for science and literature , have admitted the re- ality of this apparently ufelefs gift , we hall , without interpofing our own opinion , give the reflections of two of the first characters of the age ...
Pàgina 27
... given forno end , and to thofe perfons only who are idle and folitary , who speak Gaelic , or who live among mountains and deferts , is like nothing in nature , or providence , that we are acquainted with : and must therefore , unlefs ...
... given forno end , and to thofe perfons only who are idle and folitary , who speak Gaelic , or who live among mountains and deferts , is like nothing in nature , or providence , that we are acquainted with : and must therefore , unlefs ...
Pàgina 28
... given with fuch e- vidence , as neither Bacon nor Boyle has been able to refilt ; that fudden impreffions , which the event has ve- rified , have been felt by more than own or publish them ; that the fe- cond fight of the Hebrides ...
... given with fuch e- vidence , as neither Bacon nor Boyle has been able to refilt ; that fudden impreffions , which the event has ve- rified , have been felt by more than own or publish them ; that the fe- cond fight of the Hebrides ...
Pàgina 32
... given to the queen of what paf- fed at the fopper : and that her ma jefty , highly difpleafed that the em- prefs , her mother , thould have been " made the fubject of laughter for ma- dame Dubarry and her guests , had never forgiven the ...
... given to the queen of what paf- fed at the fopper : and that her ma jefty , highly difpleafed that the em- prefs , her mother , thould have been " made the fubject of laughter for ma- dame Dubarry and her guests , had never forgiven the ...
Pàgina 33
... given to you by any one on whom you can perfectly rely ? " " Yes , perfectly ; and if I could but tell you who , you would not be less satisfied than I am . A woman , formed to poffefs the com- plete confidence of the queen , who ...
... given to you by any one on whom you can perfectly rely ? " " Yes , perfectly ; and if I could but tell you who , you would not be less satisfied than I am . A woman , formed to poffefs the com- plete confidence of the queen , who ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 284 - ... and (as a matter of infinite importance in my judgment) by associating with each other, and forming friendships in juvenile years, be enabled to free themselves in a proper degree from those local prejudices...
Pàgina 330 - But as he is convinced that the fashion of moralizing in verse has been carried too far, and as he looks upon invention and imagination to be the chief faculties of a poet, so he will be happy if the following Odes may be looked upon as an attempt to bring back poetry into its right channel.
Pàgina 283 - The negroes thus bound, are (by their masters or mistresses) to be taught to read and write, and to be brought up to some useful occupation, agreeably to the laws of the commonwealth of Virginia, providing for the support of orphan and other poor children.
Pàgina 40 - ... him to make it of the same fashion, that the knight would have his made of. Not long after the knight coming to the...
Pàgina 341 - Vernon, then less extensive in domain than at present, should become his property,) I give and bequeath all that part thereof, which is comprehended within the following limits, viz. Beginning at the ford of Dogue Run, near my Mill, and extending along the road, and bounded thereby, as it now goes, and ever has gone, since my recollection of it, to the ford of Little Hunting Creek, at the Gum Spring...
Pàgina 284 - ... to see the youth of these United States sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education, often before their minds were formed or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of the happiness of their own, contracting too frequently not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican government and to the true and genuine liberties of mankind, •which thereafter are rarely overcome.
Pàgina 286 - I give and bequeath all the papers in my possession, which relate to my civil and military administration of the affairs of this country. I leave to him also such of my private papers as are worth preserving; and at the decease of my wife, and before, if she is not inclined to retain them, I give and bequeath my library of books and pamphlets of every kind.
Pàgina 283 - ... the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor ; it not being in my power, under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held, to manumit them.
Pàgina 342 - In consideration of the consanguinity between them and my wife, being as nearly related to her as to myself, as on account of the affection I had for, and the obligation I was under to, their father when living, who from his youth had attached himself to my person, and followed my fortunes through the...
Pàgina 120 - His Majesty will eagerly embrace the opportunity to concert with his allies the means of immediate and general pacification. Unhappily no such security hitherto exists : no sufficient evidence of the principles by which the new government will be directed ; no reasonable ground by which to judge of its stability.