Edinburgh Magazine: Or Literary Miscellany, Volumes 14-15J. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1800 |
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... should not be performed publicly , under penalty of punishment . " After this regulation , the practice of facrifice foon fell into defuetude . The Pagans complained of being de ceived in this convention , but submit- ted to baptifm ...
... should not be performed publicly , under penalty of punishment . " After this regulation , the practice of facrifice foon fell into defuetude . The Pagans complained of being de ceived in this convention , but submit- ted to baptifm ...
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... should not I take them ? That is the reason why I cannot forgive the man who takes away the character of the peo ple of my country . " The negro cha racter certainly varies with the local peculiarities of education , manners , and ...
... should not I take them ? That is the reason why I cannot forgive the man who takes away the character of the peo ple of my country . " The negro cha racter certainly varies with the local peculiarities of education , manners , and ...
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... should be given forno end , and to thofe perfons only who are idle and folitary , who speak Gaelic , or who live among mountains and deferts , is like nothing in nature , or providence , that we are acquainted with : and must therefore ...
... should be given forno end , and to thofe perfons only who are idle and folitary , who speak Gaelic , or who live among mountains and deferts , is like nothing in nature , or providence , that we are acquainted with : and must therefore ...
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... should be introduced into the minif . ter's clofet . At length , finding that he was not le fent for , he defired a fer vant to go and announce him again ; but by that he gained nothing , for , all the anfwer brought back by the fervant ...
... should be introduced into the minif . ter's clofet . At length , finding that he was not le fent for , he defired a fer vant to go and announce him again ; but by that he gained nothing , for , all the anfwer brought back by the fervant ...
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... should dispraife their hofing , their vefture , " their girding , their head dreffes , " their hoods thrown back , with their " horns elevated and brought forward , 66 " 6 66 as if it were to wound us . I know not whether they call them ...
... should dispraife their hofing , their vefture , " their girding , their head dreffes , " their hoods thrown back , with their " horns elevated and brought forward , 66 " 6 66 as if it were to wound us . I know not whether they call them ...
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Página 284 - ... and (as a matter of infinite importance in my judgment) by associating with each other, and forming friendships in juvenile years, be enabled to free themselves in a proper degree from those local prejudices...
Página 330 - But as he is convinced that the fashion of moralizing in verse has been carried too far, and as he looks upon invention and imagination to be the chief faculties of a poet, so he will be happy if the following Odes may be looked upon as an attempt to bring back poetry into its right channel.
Página 283 - The negroes thus bound, are (by their masters or mistresses) to be taught to read and write, and to be brought up to some useful occupation, agreeably to the laws of the commonwealth of Virginia, providing for the support of orphan and other poor children.
Página 40 - ... him to make it of the same fashion, that the knight would have his made of. Not long after the knight coming to the...
Página 341 - Vernon, then less extensive in domain than at present, should become his property,) I give and bequeath all that part thereof, which is comprehended within the following limits, viz. Beginning at the ford of Dogue Run, near my Mill, and extending along the road, and bounded thereby, as it now goes, and ever has gone, since my recollection of it, to the ford of Little Hunting Creek, at the Gum Spring...
Página 284 - ... to see the youth of these United States sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education, often before their minds were formed or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of the happiness of their own, contracting too frequently not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican government and to the true and genuine liberties of mankind, •which thereafter are rarely overcome.
Página 286 - I give and bequeath all the papers in my possession, which relate to my civil and military administration of the affairs of this country. I leave to him also such of my private papers as are worth preserving; and at the decease of my wife, and before, if she is not inclined to retain them, I give and bequeath my library of books and pamphlets of every kind.
Página 283 - ... the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor ; it not being in my power, under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held, to manumit them.
Página 342 - In consideration of the consanguinity between them and my wife, being as nearly related to her as to myself, as on account of the affection I had for, and the obligation I was under to, their father when living, who from his youth had attached himself to my person, and followed my fortunes through the...
Página 120 - 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.