The Historical Magazine, Or, Classical Library of Public Events: Consisting of Authentic Anecdotes, Biographical Memoirs, Manners and Customs, Philosophical Papers, Natural History, Theatrical Intelligence, Analysis of Historical Books, Domestic News, &c. &c. &c, Bind 21790 |
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... these people always burnt their dead . The use of coffee was not known in Europe till the fixteenth century . The tree which produces it , grows in great abundance in the kingdom of Yemen . For the cultivation of it we are indebted to ...
... these people always burnt their dead . The use of coffee was not known in Europe till the fixteenth century . The tree which produces it , grows in great abundance in the kingdom of Yemen . For the cultivation of it we are indebted to ...
Side 14
... these prefents the name of Stren . However this may be , the Romans on that day celebrated a feftival in honour of Janus , and paid their refpects at the fame time to Juno ; but they did not pafs it in idlenefs , left they should become ...
... these prefents the name of Stren . However this may be , the Romans on that day celebrated a feftival in honour of Janus , and paid their refpects at the fame time to Juno ; but they did not pafs it in idlenefs , left they should become ...
Side 20
... . CADELL . 1789 . THESE Letters , it seems , were at firft written with a very limited view , for the entertainment of a friend , and to beguile there may be fomething to intereft in his own writings 20 HISTORICAL MAGAZINE .
... . CADELL . 1789 . THESE Letters , it seems , were at firft written with a very limited view , for the entertainment of a friend , and to beguile there may be fomething to intereft in his own writings 20 HISTORICAL MAGAZINE .
Side 36
... these reasons , the Armenians never use their own lan- guage ; for the most part fpeaking Turkish , to conceal their origin . The Georgians are called Beit - gi , that is to fay , eaters of lice . As thofe people are much tormented by ...
... these reasons , the Armenians never use their own lan- guage ; for the most part fpeaking Turkish , to conceal their origin . The Georgians are called Beit - gi , that is to fay , eaters of lice . As thofe people are much tormented by ...
Side 49
... These reports had be- come the more dangerous , as it was well known that they frequently fur- nished converfation at Friedensburg , where the queen dowager and her fon Frederic held their court . In the hands of Juliana these rumours ...
... These reports had be- come the more dangerous , as it was well known that they frequently fur- nished converfation at Friedensburg , where the queen dowager and her fon Frederic held their court . In the hands of Juliana these rumours ...
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Side 258 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Side 241 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat :
Side 449 - Paris told your king, that in calling the states together, he had nothing to fear but the prodigal excess of their zeal in providing for the support of the throne.
Side 241 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Side 451 - ... abused shape of the vilest of women. After they had been made to taste, drop by drop, more than the bitterness of death, in the slow torture of a journey of twelve miles, protracted to six hours, they were, under a guard, composed of those very soldiers who had thus conducted them through this famous triumph, lodged in one of the old palaces of Paris, now converted into a Bastile for kings.
Side 427 - We wished at the period of the Revolution, and do now wish, to derive all we possess as an inheritance from our forefathers. Upon that body and stock of inheritance we have taken care not to inoculate any cyon alien to the nature of the original plant.
Side 334 - A large broad fillet was bound upon their forehead, and tied behind their head. In the middle of this was a horn, or a conical piece of silver, gilt, about four inches long, much in the shape of our common candle extinguishers. This is called kirn, or horn, and is only worn in reviews or parades after victory.
Side 458 - They are as usefully employed as if they worked from dawn to dark in the innumerable servile, degrading, unseemly, unmanly, and often most unwholesome and pestiferous occupations, to which by the social economy so many wretches are inevitably doomed. If it were not...
Side 452 - They can see, without pain or grudging, an archbishop precede a duke. They can see a bishop of Durham, or a bishop of Winchester, in possession of ten thousand pounds a year; and cannot conceive why it is in worse hands than estates to the like amount in the hands of this earl, or that squire...
Side 98 - And strange as it may appear, I have no doubt he thought the resolve necessary, for his disquietude on the subject of money was now continual. When he went to bed, he would put five or ten guineas into a bureau, and then full of his money, after he had retired to rest, and sometimes in the middle of the night, he would come down to see if it was there.