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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Side 13
... must be necessary to raise these enormous beams to their prefent elevation ; and how fuch ftrength could be found by a people wholly unacquainted with the mechanic powers . The door by which we entered RESIDING NEAR NOOTKA , AND this ...
... must be necessary to raise these enormous beams to their prefent elevation ; and how fuch ftrength could be found by a people wholly unacquainted with the mechanic powers . The door by which we entered RESIDING NEAR NOOTKA , AND this ...
Side 14
... must confider it as the moft luxurious feaft we had ever beheld . Even the chil- dren , and fome of them were not more than three years old , poffeffed the fame rapacious appetite for oil and blubber as their fathers : the women ...
... must confider it as the moft luxurious feaft we had ever beheld . Even the chil- dren , and fome of them were not more than three years old , poffeffed the fame rapacious appetite for oil and blubber as their fathers : the women ...
Side 22
... must look for the caufe of the deftruction of all the old bounds of provinces and jurifdic- tions , ecclefiaftical and fecular , and the diffolution of all ancient combinations of things , as well as the formation of fo many fmall ...
... must look for the caufe of the deftruction of all the old bounds of provinces and jurifdic- tions , ecclefiaftical and fecular , and the diffolution of all ancient combinations of things , as well as the formation of fo many fmall ...
Side 24
... must be the worst of all tribunals . In them it will be vain to look for any ap- pearance of justice towards strangers , to- wards the obnoxious rich , towards the minority of routed parties , towards all thofe who in the election have ...
... must be the worst of all tribunals . In them it will be vain to look for any ap- pearance of justice towards strangers , to- wards the obnoxious rich , towards the minority of routed parties , towards all thofe who in the election have ...
Side 26
... must have been among your earliest cares , if you did not mean that thofe adminiftrative bodies fhould be real fo- vereign independent states , to form an awful tribunal , like your late parlia ments , or like our king's - bench , where ...
... must have been among your earliest cares , if you did not mean that thofe adminiftrative bodies fhould be real fo- vereign independent states , to form an awful tribunal , like your late parlia ments , or like our king's - bench , where ...
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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.