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 1D. Brewman, New Street, Shoe Lane, 1789 |
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... body with a knife which he had prepared for the purpose ; but his majesty being at that moment remarkably folicitous to raise the lords who were on their knees , he received the ftroke on the upper - jaw of the right- his teeth . The ...
... body with a knife which he had prepared for the purpose ; but his majesty being at that moment remarkably folicitous to raise the lords who were on their knees , he received the ftroke on the upper - jaw of the right- his teeth . The ...
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... body or mind , may be totally abolished . It is not folely in the cruelties practifed - but in the power of practising them that flavery confifts . -- The measures of the East India Company are of the utmost im- portance to the ...
... body or mind , may be totally abolished . It is not folely in the cruelties practifed - but in the power of practising them that flavery confifts . -- The measures of the East India Company are of the utmost im- portance to the ...
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... body are ftrongly exerted , but thofe of the mind remain unemployed . It confifts in a violent exertion of de- fire in the purfuit , and the in- dulgence of a cruel paffion in the death of the game . It is an exer- cife which makes the ...
... body are ftrongly exerted , but thofe of the mind remain unemployed . It confifts in a violent exertion of de- fire in the purfuit , and the in- dulgence of a cruel paffion in the death of the game . It is an exer- cife which makes the ...
Side 26
... body elfe eats , and to fight when other people fight ; this is what is ufually meant by the common phrase , " fuch an officer has feen much fervice , and is grown grey in the field of honour . " Hence the great number of officers who ...
... body elfe eats , and to fight when other people fight ; this is what is ufually meant by the common phrase , " fuch an officer has feen much fervice , and is grown grey in the field of honour . " Hence the great number of officers who ...
Side 27
... body , he published feveral tracts against the inhuman practice of bartering the human fpecies . Through his means , a fchool for the inftruction of negroes was instituted at Philadel- phia , and which has been continued ever fince by ...
... body , he published feveral tracts against the inhuman practice of bartering the human fpecies . Through his means , a fchool for the inftruction of negroes was instituted at Philadel- phia , and which has been continued ever fince by ...
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Side 38 - It happened at Athens, during a public representation of some play exhibited in honour of the commonwealth, that an old gentleman came too late for a place suitable to his age and quality. Many of the young gentlemen who observed the difficulty and confusion he was in, made signs to him that they would accommodate him if he came where they sat.
Side 39 - He was not by any means to be forced from the body, but was removed with it bleeding in his arms, and attended with tears by all their comrades who knew their enmity. When he was brought to a tent, his wounds were dressed...
Side 39 - They had spent whole months thus, one injuring, the other complaining, when in the midst of this rage towards each other they were commanded upon the attack of the castle, where the corporal received a shot in the thigh, and fell ; the French pressing on, and he expecting to be trampled to death, called out to his enemy, " Ah, Valentine ! can you leave me here...
Side 39 - Ah, Valentine ! can you leave me here ?" Valentine immediately ran back, and in the midst of a thick fire of the French took the corporal upon his back and brought him through all that danger as far as the Abbey of...
Side 75 - ... battle was given; but, knowing the fatal consequences that would happen to his children and people, in case he should die before he put an end to that war, he commanded his principal officers, that if he died during the engagement, they should conceal his death from the army, and that they...
Side 38 - Their mutual friendship was so strong, that they were ready to die for one another. One of the two (for it is not known which) being condemned to death by the tyrant, obtained leave to go into his own country, to...
Side 317 - Snceberg, are fwom enemies to the paftoral life. Some of their maxims are, to live on hunting and plunder, and never to keep any animal alive for the fpace of one night. By this means they render themfelves odious to the reft of mankind, and are purfued and exterminated like the wild beafts, whofe manners they have af> fumed.
Side 168 - ... for turning out its companions begins to decline from the time it is two or three, till it is about twelve days old, when, as far as I have hitherto seen, it ceases.
Side 219 - August at sun-set, and for half an hour when the atmosphere was clear ; but after a rainy day, or when the air was loaded with vapours, nothing of it was seen. The following flowers emitted flashes more or less vivid, in this order: — 1.
Side 36 - ... perifh for want, and that the feverity of putting a woman of .Family to a violent death, by the hand of the executioner, might thus be avoided. Some days...