The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer, Volume 8James Anderson Mundell and Son, Parliament Stairs, 1792 |
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... neral they are placed rather in a valley , or on a decli vity , near the bottom of the hill , as at Glenelg and Dun - agglesag . 3. It happens that there are very often two of these structures in the same valley , very near to one ...
... neral they are placed rather in a valley , or on a decli vity , near the bottom of the hill , as at Glenelg and Dun - agglesag . 3. It happens that there are very often two of these structures in the same valley , very near to one ...
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... neral wealth and prosperity of the whole kingdom , and consequently augmenting the amount of the national reve- nue , which must ever keep pace with it , to an astonishing degree . But at the same time it is a matter of so much intri ...
... neral wealth and prosperity of the whole kingdom , and consequently augmenting the amount of the national reve- nue , which must ever keep pace with it , to an astonishing degree . But at the same time it is a matter of so much intri ...
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... neral to all objects that are capable of being affected by water in its two different states of fluidity and solidity . A piece of linen , for example , has been rendered stiff by means of frost , and is then said to be frozen ; when ...
... neral to all objects that are capable of being affected by water in its two different states of fluidity and solidity . A piece of linen , for example , has been rendered stiff by means of frost , and is then said to be frozen ; when ...
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... neral chart of the east coast of Scotland , from Holy island and the Staples to uncanfby - head , containing the true posi- tion of the shore , the form extent , and depth of water on the fishing banks , with the depth between them and ...
... neral chart of the east coast of Scotland , from Holy island and the Staples to uncanfby - head , containing the true posi- tion of the shore , the form extent , and depth of water on the fishing banks , with the depth between them and ...
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... neral conduct of Europeans in the new world . An impartial survey of some part of the transactions of Britain in the West Indies , will vindicate my present application of the verses of Buchanan . There are but two motives , those of ...
... neral conduct of Europeans in the new world . An impartial survey of some part of the transactions of Britain in the West Indies , will vindicate my present application of the verses of Buchanan . There are but two motives , those of ...
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Page 148 - Hail wedded love! mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driv'n from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
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.
Page 324 - Now that I am prating of myself, know that, after fourteen or fifteen years, the ' Castle of Indolence.
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.