London Magazine: Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer..., Volum 3

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C. Ackers, 1784

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Side 12 - Fond impious man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud Raised by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day? To-morrow he repairs the golden flood And warms the nations with redoubled ray. Enough for me : with joy I see The different doom our fates assign : Be thine Despair and sceptred Care, To triumph and to die are mine.
Side 443 - ... the nurse of sciences, the inventress of delightful and useful arts, the scene of glorious actions, fertile in the productions of human genius, abounding in natural wonders, and infinitely diversified in the forms of religion and government, in the laws, manners, customs, and languages, as well as in the features and complexions of men. I could not help remarking how important and extensive a field was yet unexplored, and how many solid advantages unimproved...
Side 444 - If now it be asked, what are the intended objects of our inquiries within these spacious limits, we answer, MAN and NATURE; whatever is performed by the one, or produced by the other.
Side 275 - I hope you will then think your own case not uncommon, but will be contented to go home, and look upon your own wife as no worse than her neighbours. If, on the other hand, your horses are gone first, I will take my daughter home again, and you shall keep berfortune.
Side 52 - May never was the month of love For May is full of flowers, But rather April, wet by kind, For love is full of showers.
Side 79 - Coodncfs, and duely considering that the great and public blcilings of peace do call tor public and folemrj acknowledgements, have thought fit, by the advice of our privy council* to iffue this our Royal Proclamation, hereby...
Side 150 - Not the least vestige of these now remained. It is probable that they had been all rooted out to make room for buildings, when the village was re-inhabited; for, at all the other gardens then planted by Captain Furneaux, although now wholly overrun with the weeds of the country, we found cabbages, onions, leeks, purslane, radishes, mustard, &c., and a few potatoes.
Side 340 - Boylei for the honour he had done to them, and to his own judgment, by placing the family in fuch a light as to give a fpirit of emulation to thofe who were hereafter to inherit the title.
Side 343 - He was eminently verfed in the different parts of facred literature ; and his acquaintance with the languages extended not only to the Hebrew, Greek and Latin among the ancient, and to the French, Italian, Spaniih, Portuguefe, and Dutch, among the modern ; but likewife to the Oriental tongues.
Side 374 - In the name of God, of St. Michael, and St. George, I make thee a knight ; be valiant, courteous, and loyal!

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