The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer, Volume 8James Anderson Mundell and Son, Parliament Stairs, 1792 |
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... favour of a friend. 'fBut how sadly will the scene be reversed, if the first thoughts which occur to a man, concerning himself, be of the gloomy and threatening k ind ; if his. temper, instead of calmness and self enjoyment, shall yield ...
... favour of a friend. 'fBut how sadly will the scene be reversed, if the first thoughts which occur to a man, concerning himself, be of the gloomy and threatening k ind ; if his. temper, instead of calmness and self enjoyment, shall yield ...
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... FAVOUR OF A FRIEND . قا With a portrait . portrait But how sadly will the scene be reversed , if the first thoughts which oc- cur to a man , concerning himself , be of the gloomy and threatening kind ; if his , temper , instead of ...
... FAVOUR OF A FRIEND . قا With a portrait . portrait But how sadly will the scene be reversed , if the first thoughts which oc- cur to a man , concerning himself , be of the gloomy and threatening kind ; if his , temper , instead of ...
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... favour I have to ask of you . " Wilmot afsured him that he would , without recompence , do him any service that was in his power : He invited him to repose himself , and ordered refreshments to be brought for his attendants . 66 My ...
... favour I have to ask of you . " Wilmot afsured him that he would , without recompence , do him any service that was in his power : He invited him to repose himself , and ordered refreshments to be brought for his attendants . 66 My ...
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... favoured , by the Swallow packet , with a volume of printed letters , con- taining his correspondence with a great variety of persons in India , Africa and Europe , from the 22d of May 1787 , till the 16th of September 1791 , containing ...
... favoured , by the Swallow packet , with a volume of printed letters , con- taining his correspondence with a great variety of persons in India , Africa and Europe , from the 22d of May 1787 , till the 16th of September 1791 , containing ...
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James Anderson. third from the king's gardens at Kew , by the favour of Sir Joseph Banks . All these arrived safe , and were found to be exactly the same plant . A piece of ground was appropriated by government for a nopalry , under the ...
James Anderson. third from the king's gardens at Kew , by the favour of Sir Joseph Banks . All these arrived safe , and were found to be exactly the same plant . A piece of ground was appropriated by government for a nopalry , under the ...
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Page 322 - The two fields next to me, from the first of which I have walled — no, no— paled in about as much as my garden consisted of before, so that the walk runs round the hedge, where you may figure me walking any time of the day, and sometimes of the night.
Page 257 - In the loose rhymes of every poetaster :— Could I be more than any man that lives, Great, fair, rich, wise, all in superlatives : Yet I more freely would these gifts resign, Than ever Fortune would have made them mine; And hold one minute of this holy leisure, Beyond the riches of this empty pleasure.
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Page 117 - Friend, you and I serve the two greatest masters existing, but in different callings ; you beat up for volunteers for King George, I for the Lord Jesus. In God's name, then, let us not interrupt each other; the world is wide enough for both ; and we may get recruits in abundance.
Page 165 - Indies, belonging to a private company, whose existence had been deemed prejudicial to the commonwealth. What then were the fruits which Britain reaped from this long and desperate war ? A dreadful expense of blood and treasure '', disgrace upon disgrace, an additional load of grievous impositions, and the national debt accumulated to the enormous sum of eighty millions sterling.
Page 325 - All our friends are pretty much in statu quo, except it be poor Mr. Lyttelton. He has had the severest trial a human tender heart can have ;{ but the old physician, time, will at last close up his wounds, though there must always remain an inward smarting.