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 3D. Brewman, New Street, Shoe Lane, 1791 |
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... continued with all that care and difcernment which have marked our preceding labours - and which muft , in fome degree , have been meritorious - or we fhould have experienced that fate which has befallen fome of aur cotemporaries . Our ...
... continued with all that care and difcernment which have marked our preceding labours - and which muft , in fome degree , have been meritorious - or we fhould have experienced that fate which has befallen fome of aur cotemporaries . Our ...
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... continued . ] INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF THE HABITATION OF A CHIEF the rafters , which were . fupported at the ends , and in the middle , by gigantic images , carved out of huge blocks of timber . The fame kind of broad planks covered the ...
... continued . ] INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF THE HABITATION OF A CHIEF the rafters , which were . fupported at the ends , and in the middle , by gigantic images , carved out of huge blocks of timber . The fame kind of broad planks covered the ...
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... continued to exhibit a num . ber of coquettish airs while I was decorating her head , neck , and arms , with my pocket and neck . handkerchiefs , which I tore into rib- bons , as if defirous of multiplying two prefents into feveral ...
... continued to exhibit a num . ber of coquettish airs while I was decorating her head , neck , and arms , with my pocket and neck . handkerchiefs , which I tore into rib- bons , as if defirous of multiplying two prefents into feveral ...
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... continued . ] MR . BURKE'S REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE , & c . CONCLUDED FROM P. 459 . FTER dwelling for a confider- able time on the election of re- A prefentatives , he speaks of the arrange- ments by which the prefent ...
... continued . ] MR . BURKE'S REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE , & c . CONCLUDED FROM P. 459 . FTER dwelling for a confider- able time on the election of re- A prefentatives , he speaks of the arrange- ments by which the prefent ...
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... continued the favourite for the re- mainder of the battle ; but Watfon fought with great fpirit and réfolution ; and we are inclined to think , from the great fums , of money that were laid upon him before the battle began , that fome ...
... continued the favourite for the re- mainder of the battle ; but Watfon fought with great fpirit and réfolution ; and we are inclined to think , from the great fums , of money that were laid upon him before the battle began , that fome ...
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Side 168 - At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Side 401 - I then wrote a card to Mr. Allen that I might have a discreet friend at hand to act as occasion should require. In penning this note I had some difficulty; my hand, I knew not how nor why, made wrong letters.
Side 400 - We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich, beyond the dreams of avarice'.
Side 247 - English on board) and each of my brethren to a few more in theirs. At seven I joined with the Germans in their public service ; while Mr. Ingham was reading between the decks to as many as desired to hear. At eight we met again to exhort and instruct one another.
Side 401 - ... stroke, and that my speech was taken from me. I had no pain, and so little dejection in this dreadful state, that I wondered at my own apathy, and considered that perhaps death itself, when it should come, would excite less horrour than seems now to attend it.
Side 281 - Report of the Lords of the Committee of Council, appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to trade and foreign plantations...
Side 166 - ... when a boy he was immoderately fond of reading romances of chivalry, and he retained his fondness for them through life...
Side 399 - that the magistrates had not done their duty, but that he would do his own;' and a proclamation was published, directing us to keep our servants within doors, as the peace was now to be preserved by force. The soldiers were sent out to different parts, and the town is now [June 9] at quiet.
Side 157 - Johnson, who, it seems, upon a little recollection, had taken it into his head that he ought to have done the honours of his literary residence to a foreign lady of quality, and, eager to show himself a man of gallantry, was hurrying down the staircase in violent agitation.
Side 86 - This sight pleased me so well, that I w°ould have it repeated : and to try their strength, I made a full-grown negro mount the smallest, and two others the largest. This burden did not seem to me at all disproportioned to their strength.