Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 68, Part 1F. Jefferies, 1798 - Early English newspapers The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs. |
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... forces might easily baye marched to Paris , had not the English and Hanoverian forces been oblige by our Cabinet to move towards Dunkirk , at a time when Lyons , Toulon , Marfelles , Bourdeaux , and all the Southern and Wes ern ...
... forces might easily baye marched to Paris , had not the English and Hanoverian forces been oblige by our Cabinet to move towards Dunkirk , at a time when Lyons , Toulon , Marfelles , Bourdeaux , and all the Southern and Wes ern ...
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... forces under his com- mand , marched against it ; which , af- ter a fmart defence , they took . The befiegers wanting ladders entered thro ' the embrazures and port - holes in the face of the guns playing against them . NEWARK CASTLE ...
... forces under his com- mand , marched against it ; which , af- ter a fmart defence , they took . The befiegers wanting ladders entered thro ' the embrazures and port - holes in the face of the guns playing against them . NEWARK CASTLE ...
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... force , to the 84 great barbarity of this custom , as the poor animals would have no opportunity of exerting their firength , and could only draw the plough with the risk of having their horns pulled off by the first one that came in ...
... force , to the 84 great barbarity of this custom , as the poor animals would have no opportunity of exerting their firength , and could only draw the plough with the risk of having their horns pulled off by the first one that came in ...
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... force in fhips and weight of metal , commanders names , veffels captured or destroyed , lofs in killed and wounded , & c .; 3dly , on the plinth of the principal front , a fhort general infcription , which ought to be in the English ...
... force in fhips and weight of metal , commanders names , veffels captured or destroyed , lofs in killed and wounded , & c .; 3dly , on the plinth of the principal front , a fhort general infcription , which ought to be in the English ...
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... force of plausible objections . The tendency of the whole is admirable , in every point of view , political , religious , and philofophical . ' " Subfcribing completely to this opinion , we agree alfo with the tranflator , in think- ing ...
... force of plausible objections . The tendency of the whole is admirable , in every point of view , political , religious , and philofophical . ' " Subfcribing completely to this opinion , we agree alfo with the tranflator , in think- ing ...
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