Edinburgh Magazine: Or Literary Miscellany, Volums 14-15J. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1800 |
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Pàgina 10
... thought the jour- ney too dangerous to be encountered for the ranfom of their flaves . The drought became so exceffive , that no pafturage could be found for the flocks ; upon which the tribes of Ouadelim and Labd ffeba , after hold ...
... thought the jour- ney too dangerous to be encountered for the ranfom of their flaves . The drought became so exceffive , that no pafturage could be found for the flocks ; upon which the tribes of Ouadelim and Labd ffeba , after hold ...
Pàgina 14
... thought to have the faces of monkeys ; and , ** Such coincidences fhow , that the radical principles of the human conftitution are every where the fame , however they may happen to be modified by adventitious circumftances ; that ...
... thought to have the faces of monkeys ; and , ** Such coincidences fhow , that the radical principles of the human conftitution are every where the fame , however they may happen to be modified by adventitious circumftances ; that ...
Pàgina 26
... thoughts of a native in the hour of filence and folitude If thefe people , notwithstanding their reformation in religion , and more frequent intercourfe with ftrangers , do ttill retain many of their old fu- perftitions , we need not ...
... thoughts of a native in the hour of filence and folitude If thefe people , notwithstanding their reformation in religion , and more frequent intercourfe with ftrangers , do ttill retain many of their old fu- perftitions , we need not ...
Pàgina 27
... thought to refemble any future event , exalts the poor dreamer into a Highland prophet . This con- ceit makes him more reclufe and more melancholy than ever ; and fo feeds his difeafe and multiplies his vifions : which , if they are not ...
... thought to refemble any future event , exalts the poor dreamer into a Highland prophet . This con- ceit makes him more reclufe and more melancholy than ever ; and fo feeds his difeafe and multiplies his vifions : which , if they are not ...
Pàgina 29
... thought of calling him into the adminiftration , of preferring him to an abbey of 12,000 livres income , & c . ; With thefe credentials the abbe Cezarges went , and paid a friendly vifit to the abbe Sieyes . How is it , my dear abbe ...
... thought of calling him into the adminiftration , of preferring him to an abbey of 12,000 livres income , & c . ; With thefe credentials the abbe Cezarges went , and paid a friendly vifit to the abbe Sieyes . How is it , my dear abbe ...
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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.