A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 3John Walker Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... friends . If theirs had any joint concernment with mine , I would willingly submit my interest to theirs ; but when I alone am interested , and they only advise me to come over as soon as the act of indemnity is past , because they ...
... friends . If theirs had any joint concernment with mine , I would willingly submit my interest to theirs ; but when I alone am interested , and they only advise me to come over as soon as the act of indemnity is past , because they ...
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... friends , full of expectations of favours and employ- ments . Who can think , that they who imprison them , would employ me ; or suffer me to live , when they are put to death ! If I might live and be employed , can it be ex- pected ...
... friends , full of expectations of favours and employ- ments . Who can think , that they who imprison them , would employ me ; or suffer me to live , when they are put to death ! If I might live and be employed , can it be ex- pected ...
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... FRIEND , Lichfield , Feb. 5 , 1736 . HAVING not been in town since the year thirty - one , you will the less wonder ... friendship , as by your many ex- cellent and valuable qualifications . And had I a son of my own , it would be my ...
... FRIEND , Lichfield , Feb. 5 , 1736 . HAVING not been in town since the year thirty - one , you will the less wonder ... friendship , as by your many ex- cellent and valuable qualifications . And had I a son of my own , it would be my ...
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... friend Aiberti . I flew to him with affection , and after a tear of condolence , asked how he came there ? To this he replied , that having fought a duel with a general of the Austrian infantry , against the emperor's command , and ...
... friend Aiberti . I flew to him with affection , and after a tear of condolence , asked how he came there ? To this he replied , that having fought a duel with a general of the Austrian infantry , against the emperor's command , and ...
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... friend , and fellow - soldier to the Count : they came with his pardon , which had been procured by the General with whom ... friends , and hearing of her husband's freedom . Some hours were em- ployed in mending the appearance of this ...
... friend , and fellow - soldier to the Count : they came with his pardon , which had been procured by the General with whom ... friends , and hearing of her husband's freedom . Some hours were em- ployed in mending the appearance of this ...
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Page 514 - ... the room he was in, he said, he knew to be but part of the house, yet he could not conceive that the whole house could look bigger.
Page 129 - I beg pardon that my paper is not finer, but I am forced to write from a coffee-house, where I am attending about business. There is a dirty crowd of busy faces all around me, talking of money ; while all my ambition, all my wealth, is love!
Page 513 - ... observe, that he might know them again; but having too many objects to learn at once, he forgot many of them; and (as he said) at first learned to know, and again forgot a thousand things in a day.
Page 402 - This was presently reported to the Duke of Buckingham, and a little after, to the king, who were both very curious to know the circumstance of...
Page 128 - How art thou, oh my soul, stolen from thyself ! how is all thy attention broken ! my books are blank paper, and my friends intruders. I have no hope of quiet but from your pity. To grant it, would make more for your triumph. To give pain is the tyranny, to make happy the true empire of beauty. If you would consider aright...
Page 192 - These are the great occasions which force the mind to take refuge in religion : when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power ? and to what hope may we not raise our eyes and hearts, when we consider that the greatest POWER is the BEST?' Surely there is no man who, thus afflicted, does not seek succour in the gospel, which has brought life and immortality to light.
Page 114 - And now, sir, believe me, when I assure you, I never did nor ever will, on any pretence whatsoever, take more than the stated and customary fees of my office. I might keep the contrary practice concealed from the world, were I capable of it, but I could not from myself. And I hope I shall always fear the reproaches of my own heart more than those of all mankind.
Page 330 - This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the life. O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass as he hath hit His face — the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But since he cannot, Reader, look Not on his picture, but his book.
Page 175 - Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
Page 374 - You shall be taken from the place where you are, and be carried to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and there be severally hanged by your necks until you be dead. And the Lord have mercy on your souls.