The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, Volume 44R. Baldwin, 1775 |
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... nature I killed Dick and my daughter , he is an idiot - I am a wretch , and death hurries on me be- fore I can make ... natural right of fituation . Now for his hiftory , which is not a blank . He has been the father of feven children ...
... nature I killed Dick and my daughter , he is an idiot - I am a wretch , and death hurries on me be- fore I can make ... natural right of fituation . Now for his hiftory , which is not a blank . He has been the father of feven children ...
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... Nature , who had been very bountiful in her gifts to Thomas , as well in perfon and conftitution , as mental abilities , now stirred fome dor- mant feeds , that might have for ever lain buried and feared under a clofe covering of ...
... Nature , who had been very bountiful in her gifts to Thomas , as well in perfon and conftitution , as mental abilities , now stirred fome dor- mant feeds , that might have for ever lain buried and feared under a clofe covering of ...
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... Nature en dowed him with an excellent under- ftanding and great genius , which the illiterate blockheads about him call madness . Every man of wit and fancy hath been more or less accufed of madness by the dunces of his ac- quaintance ...
... Nature en dowed him with an excellent under- ftanding and great genius , which the illiterate blockheads about him call madness . Every man of wit and fancy hath been more or less accufed of madness by the dunces of his ac- quaintance ...
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... Nature has joined your country to theirs . Do you join your political interefts . For their own fakes , they never will defert or betray you . Be affured that the happiness of a people inevitably depends on their liberty , and their ...
... Nature has joined your country to theirs . Do you join your political interefts . For their own fakes , they never will defert or betray you . Be affured that the happiness of a people inevitably depends on their liberty , and their ...
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... nature by our fenfations , which ferve the place of innate ideas . " We subjoin the following extracts as fpe- cimens of the author's reafoning and ftyle , " In nature is no fhame at all ; one part of the body has the fame right to be ...
... nature by our fenfations , which ferve the place of innate ideas . " We subjoin the following extracts as fpe- cimens of the author's reafoning and ftyle , " In nature is no fhame at all ; one part of the body has the fame right to be ...
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Page 339 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know...
Page 131 - I may have leave to lament. For a wise man, he seemed to me at that time to be governed too much by general maxims.
Page 64 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Page 67 - I remember, Sir, with a melancholy pleasure, the situation of the honourable gentleman who made the motion for the repeal ; in that crisis, when the whole trading interest of this empire, crammed into your lobbies, with a trembling and anxious expectation, waited, almost to a winter's return of light, their fate from your resolutions. When at length you had determined in their...
Page 230 - ... plunged into the water, swimming underneath like an otter, only rising to take breath, till he reached the opposite shore. He now ascended the steep bank, but though he had good reason to be in a hurry, as many of the enemy were in the water, and others running...
Page 339 - When I contemplate these things; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection...
Page 338 - Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Page 64 - I mean into the business of office ; and the limited and fixed methods and forms established there. Much knowledge is to be had undoubtedly in that line ; and there is no knowledge which is not valuable. But it may be truly said, that men too much conversant in office are rarely minds of remarkable enlargement.
Page 338 - England, the genius should point out to him a little speck, scarce visible in the mass of the national interest, a small seminal principle, rather than a formed body, and should tell him, — ' Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth...
Page 420 - But did not chance at length her error mend ? Did no subverted empire mark his end ? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound ? Or hostile millions press him to the ground ? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.