Edinburgh Magazine: Or Literary Miscellany, Volumes 14-15J. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1799 |
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... equal number of horfes can draw , travel two miles and one half in the hour ; a pace quite as quick as our heavy ftage waggons ufually go ; and be- fides , this labour is executed with requiring little more than half the food neceffary ...
... equal number of horfes can draw , travel two miles and one half in the hour ; a pace quite as quick as our heavy ftage waggons ufually go ; and be- fides , this labour is executed with requiring little more than half the food neceffary ...
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... equal terms , are forced to refort to a fimilar conduct . Their ideas with respect to property are very different from thofe of Euro- peans . Occupied chiefly by their na- tural wants , they eafily part with their fuperfluities to thofe ...
... equal terms , are forced to refort to a fimilar conduct . Their ideas with respect to property are very different from thofe of Euro- peans . Occupied chiefly by their na- tural wants , they eafily part with their fuperfluities to thofe ...
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... equal goodness , which gave him great uneafinefs . I did not know , nor did he ever tell me , in what he had difpleafed her majefty but the abbé Georgel , with whom I converfed about it , informed me , That the cardinal , during his ...
... equal goodness , which gave him great uneafinefs . I did not know , nor did he ever tell me , in what he had difpleafed her majefty but the abbé Georgel , with whom I converfed about it , informed me , That the cardinal , during his ...
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... equal to what he would give , as he has a fixed fum for her monthly expences , and when that is expended , fhe is under the neceffity of poftponing her bounties till the month following . The lady I allude to has done me the fervice of ...
... equal to what he would give , as he has a fixed fum for her monthly expences , and when that is expended , fhe is under the neceffity of poftponing her bounties till the month following . The lady I allude to has done me the fervice of ...
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... equal quan- tity of tobacco , and fmoke the mix . ture in a fort of pipe , a very fimple , but coarfe imitation of the Perfian pipe . It is nothing more than the fhell of a cocoa - nut hollowed and fil- led with water , through which a ...
... equal quan- tity of tobacco , and fmoke the mix . ture in a fort of pipe , a very fimple , but coarfe imitation of the Perfian pipe . It is nothing more than the fhell of a cocoa - nut hollowed and fil- led with water , through which a ...
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Página 304 - 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 260 - ... (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...
Página 435 - Giles to mark her way. Close to his eyes his hat he instant bends, And forms a friendly telescope, that lends Just aid enough to dull the glaring light, And place the...
Página 259 - 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 321 - He survives in our hearts, in the growing knowledge of our children, in the affection of the good throughout the world: and when our monuments shall be done away; when nations now existing shall be no more; when even our young and...
Página 354 - For the LORD is a great God, and a Great King above all gods. In His hand are all the corners of the earth, and the strength of the hills is His also. The sea is His, and He made it; and His hands prepared the dry land. O come, let us worship...
Página 70 - superficial reasoning men who judge of the great operations of the mineral kingdom from having kindled a fire and looked into the bottom of a little crucible.
Página 320 - Peake and me, to the tide water of the said creek ; thence by that water to Potomac River; thence with the river to the mouth of Dogue Creek ; and thence with the said Dogue Creek to the place of beginning at the aforesaid ford ; containing upwards of four thousand acres, be the same more or less, together with...
Página 259 - ... proprietor, it not being in my power, under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held, to manumit them.
Página 319 - 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...