The Scots Magazine, Volume 39Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1777 - English literature |
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... London 215. A return by the British Secretary of State April 10. 447 . 23. Dr Franklin and Mr Deane , American deputies , write to Lord Stormont 616 . 24. King of Portugal dies 166 . 25. Spanish troops drive the Portuguese off the ...
... London 215. A return by the British Secretary of State April 10. 447 . 23. Dr Franklin and Mr Deane , American deputies , write to Lord Stormont 616 . 24. King of Portugal dies 166 . 25. Spanish troops drive the Portuguese off the ...
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... London in 1737. In the end of 1738 , I published my Treatife , and immediate ly went down to my mother and my brother , who lived at his country - houfe , and was employing himself very judi- ciously and fuccefsfully in the improve ...
... London in 1737. In the end of 1738 , I published my Treatife , and immediate ly went down to my mother and my brother , who lived at his country - houfe , and was employing himself very judi- ciously and fuccefsfully in the improve ...
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... London , my Inquiry concerning the Principles of Morals ; which , in my own opinion , ( who ought not to judge on that fubject ) , is , of all my writings , hi- ftorical , philofophical , or literary , in- comparably the best . It came ...
... London , my Inquiry concerning the Principles of Morals ; which , in my own opinion , ( who ought not to judge on that fubject ) , is , of all my writings , hi- ftorical , philofophical , or literary , in- comparably the best . It came ...
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... London towards the end of April ; and at Morpeth met with Mr John Home and myself , who had both come down from London on purpose to fee him , expecting to have found him at Edinburgh . Mr Home returned with him , and attended him ...
... London towards the end of April ; and at Morpeth met with Mr John Home and myself , who had both come down from London on purpose to fee him , expecting to have found him at Edinburgh . Mr Home returned with him , and attended him ...
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... London gazette . He faid the declaration did not arrive with th other dispatches , but was left at Ply mouth with other matters ; that whe it did arrive , he did not think it of im portance enough to make a part of th London gazette ...
... London gazette . He faid the declaration did not arrive with th other dispatches , but was left at Ply mouth with other matters ; that whe it did arrive , he did not think it of im portance enough to make a part of th London gazette ...
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Page 22 - Ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.
Page 24 - These are not the Necessaries of Life; they can scarcely be called the Conveniences, and yet only because they look pretty, how many want to have them. The artificial Wants of Mankind thus become more numerous than the natural; and, as Poor Dick says, For one poor Person, there are an hundred indigent.
Page 21 - Brother Authors in the same Way, for what Reason I know not, have ever been very sparing in their Applauses, and no other Author has taken the least Notice of me, so that did not my Writings produce me some solid Pudding, the great Deficiency of Praise would have quite discouraged me. I...
Page 2 - My very slender fortune, however, being unsuitable to this plan of life, and my health being a little broken by my ardent application, I was tempted, or rather forced, to make a very feeble trial for entering into a more active scene of life. In 1734, I went to Bristol, with some recommendations to eminent merchants, but in a few months found that scene totally unsuitable to me.
Page 6 - Colonel Edmonstone soon afterwards came to see him, and take leave of him; and on his way home he could not forbear writing him a letter, bidding him once more an eternal adieu, and applying to him, as to a dying man, the beautiful French...
Page 387 - To profess that there is no other name under heaven by which we can be saved...
Page 150 - June 20th, 1776. I cannot, my worthy friend, permit the letters and parcels which I have sent (in the state I received them), to be landed, without adding a word upon the subject of the injurious extremities in which our unhappy disputes have engaged us.
Page 26 - I had made of the sense of all ages and nations. However, I resolved to be the better for the echo of it, and though I had at first determined to buy stuff for a new coat, I went away resolved to wear my old one a little longer. Reader, if thou wilt do the same, thy profit will be as great as mine.
Page 24 - What maintains one Vice, would bring up two Children. You may think perhaps, that a little Tea, or a little Punch now and then, Diet a little more costly, Clothes a little finer, and a little Entertainment now and then, can be no great Matter; but remember what Poor Richard says: Many a Little makes a Mickle...
Page 25 - I was conscious that not a tenth part of the wisdom was my own, which he ascribed to me, but rather the gleanings that I had made of the sense of all ages and nations. However, I resolved to be the better for the echo of it; and, though I had...