The Scots Magazine, Or, General Repository of Literature, History, and Politics, Volum 62

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Alex Chapman and, 1800
 

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Pàgina 38 - He had reached his fifth [or sixth] year, knew the alphabet, and could read a little ; but had received no particular information with respect to the Author of his being : because I thought he could not yet understand such information ; and because I had learned from my own experience, that to be made to repeat words not understood is extremely detrimental to the faculties of a young mind...
Pàgina 96 - ... and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Pàgina 152 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Pàgina 364 - I had fixed a resolution, in the beginning of my life, always to leave the public to judge between my adversaries and me, without making any reply, I must adhere inviolably to this resolution...
Pàgina 85 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.
Pàgina 50 - 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.
Pàgina 209 - Committee are ftrongly induced to recommend this meafure, from the confederation that a very refpedtable phyfician has given it as his decided opinion, that new bread is far lefs wholefome than that which has been baked a certain number "of hours: and they think it important to add, that, in the opinion of the bakers in the metropolis, no material inconvenience or detriment to their trade would arife from the adopting this regulation.
Pàgina 382 - To dwell in the manfion of Gods at the foot of a tree ; to have the ground for a bed, and a hide for vefture ; to renounce all ties of family or connections ; who would not receive delight from this devout abhorrence of the world.
Pàgina 339 - William. An Enquiry into the Elementary Principles of Beauty in the Works of Nature and Art; to which is prefixed an Introductory Discourse on Taste, Lon., 1800, 4to, pp.
Pàgina 50 - Such professions have been repeatedly held out by all those who have successively directed the resources of France to the destruction of Europe ; and whom the present rulers have declared to have been all, from the beginning- and uniformly, incapable of maintaining the relations of amity and peace.

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