Edinburgh Magazine: Or Literary Miscellany, Volums 14-15J. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1799 |
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Pàgina 7
... manner in which they are kept . In the first place , the high price of horfes of late years , has encouraged the monopolizers of many of our fuperior lands to occupy them in breeding and rearing thefe animals , which , in the early ...
... manner in which they are kept . In the first place , the high price of horfes of late years , has encouraged the monopolizers of many of our fuperior lands to occupy them in breeding and rearing thefe animals , which , in the early ...
Pàgina 13
... manner . Plentiful crops are often thus pro- duced ; but , inftead of waiting till the grain attains maturity , they cut it down , and dry it over hot cinders . Treachery and perfidy are the innate vices of the Arabs ; affaffinations ...
... manner . Plentiful crops are often thus pro- duced ; but , inftead of waiting till the grain attains maturity , they cut it down , and dry it over hot cinders . Treachery and perfidy are the innate vices of the Arabs ; affaffinations ...
Pàgina 20
... manners as well as to reform their 1787 , the chief of Almammy not morals . In Loango , Congo , Angola , only ... manner of life , would in time acquire the negroe hue . In feveral of these countries , the Portu- gueze miffions ...
... manners as well as to reform their 1787 , the chief of Almammy not morals . In Loango , Congo , Angola , only ... manner of life , would in time acquire the negroe hue . In feveral of these countries , the Portu- gueze miffions ...
Pàgina 28
... manners of the negroes and their modes of life . In colour they are hardly diftinguishable from the darkest negroes ; a fact which feems to fhow , that Europeans , adopt- " terrupting their finging , dancing , ing the negro manner of ...
... manners of the negroes and their modes of life . In colour they are hardly diftinguishable from the darkest negroes ; a fact which feems to fhow , that Europeans , adopt- " terrupting their finging , dancing , ing the negro manner of ...
Pàgina 33
... manner in which the king mentioned it before the queen , had prepared the way , and convinced her , that I was not a worthlefs fellow . Her friend , who knows her better than any one elfe , finding this favourable difpofition in her ...
... manner in which the king mentioned it before the queen , had prepared the way , and convinced her , that I was not a worthlefs fellow . Her friend , who knows her better than any one elfe , finding this favourable difpofition in her ...
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Pàgina 304 - 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 260 - ... (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...
Pàgina 435 - Giles to mark her way. Close to his eyes his hat he instant bends, And forms a friendly telescope, that lends Just aid enough to dull the glaring light, And place the...
Pàgina 259 - 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 321 - He survives in our hearts, in the growing knowledge of our children, in the affection of the good throughout the world: and when our monuments shall be done away; when nations now existing shall be no more; when even our young and...
Pàgina 354 - For the LORD is a great God, and a Great King above all gods. In His hand are all the corners of the earth, and the strength of the hills is His also. The sea is His, and He made it; and His hands prepared the dry land. O come, let us worship...
Pàgina 70 - superficial reasoning men who judge of the great operations of the mineral kingdom from having kindled a fire and looked into the bottom of a little crucible.
Pàgina 320 - Peake and me, to the tide water of the said creek ; thence by that water to Potomac River; thence with the river to the mouth of Dogue Creek ; and thence with the said Dogue Creek to the place of beginning at the aforesaid ford ; containing upwards of four thousand acres, be the same more or less, together with...
Pàgina 259 - ... proprietor, it not being in my power, under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held, to manumit them.
Pàgina 319 - 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...