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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... Never was there fach a changeable variety of weather in fo thott a fpace ; the ground is almoff deluged with wet . The nights in general exceffively dark , frequently enlivened with lighting , which appears partici larly awful and vivid ...
... Never was there fach a changeable variety of weather in fo thott a fpace ; the ground is almoff deluged with wet . The nights in general exceffively dark , frequently enlivened with lighting , which appears partici larly awful and vivid ...
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... never be im- proved , but for ever lie in the unpro ductive and diforderly ftate of former times . " I am ready , Sir , to own , that the immediate oftenfible profit to the great proprietor ( for the small land owner , it is well known ...
... never be im- proved , but for ever lie in the unpro ductive and diforderly ftate of former times . " I am ready , Sir , to own , that the immediate oftenfible profit to the great proprietor ( for the small land owner , it is well known ...
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then , this aftonishing reverfe of fortune ? -It shall never be forgotten that , when Prince William of Gloucefter had ta- ken his M. A. degree at Cambridge , he was fent to a German University to perfect his education . - Surely , Sir ...
then , this aftonishing reverfe of fortune ? -It shall never be forgotten that , when Prince William of Gloucefter had ta- ken his M. A. degree at Cambridge , he was fent to a German University to perfect his education . - Surely , Sir ...
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... never - for- gotten Albertus , Sir Henry Wotton gratefully acknowledges in his letter to the Queen of Bohemia , " declaring it to be the first of the two ways by which he thought himself tied " to that minifter . There is , however ...
... never - for- gotten Albertus , Sir Henry Wotton gratefully acknowledges in his letter to the Queen of Bohemia , " declaring it to be the first of the two ways by which he thought himself tied " to that minifter . There is , however ...
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... never , in all my trave s or ftudies , met with any thing of that fort to merit much regard . Many fuperb monuments till indeed remain , to commemorate military atchievements at land ; but fcarcely any can be named , with re- fpect to ...
... never , in all my trave s or ftudies , met with any thing of that fort to merit much regard . Many fuperb monuments till indeed remain , to commemorate military atchievements at land ; but fcarcely any can be named , with re- fpect to ...
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