The Scots Magazine, Volume 39Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1777 - English literature |
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... use of my ne- phew's hand in writing to you , as I do not rife to - day . * ** * Edinburgh , Monday , Aug. 26.1776 . DEAR SIR , Yefterday , about four o'clock after noon , Mr Hume expired . The near ap- proach of his death became ...
... use of my ne- phew's hand in writing to you , as I do not rife to - day . * ** * Edinburgh , Monday , Aug. 26.1776 . DEAR SIR , Yefterday , about four o'clock after noon , Mr Hume expired . The near ap- proach of his death became ...
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... use conciliation , but an ar- ny ; not to convince , but to deftroy ? Then , Sir , what an infult to all Åme- fica was it to fend as commiffioners , none but the commanders of the fleet and army to negotiate peace ? Did it not thew how ...
... use conciliation , but an ar- ny ; not to convince , but to deftroy ? Then , Sir , what an infult to all Åme- fica was it to fend as commiffioners , none but the commanders of the fleet and army to negotiate peace ? Did it not thew how ...
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... use a and putrid diet , or live in foul air duncleanliness , I have reafon to believe re are few diforders lefs frequent , opinion I fubmitted to the judge . t of the fociety feveral years ago , I have had no reafon fince to alter I ...
... use a and putrid diet , or live in foul air duncleanliness , I have reafon to believe re are few diforders lefs frequent , opinion I fubmitted to the judge . t of the fociety feveral years ago , I have had no reafon fince to alter I ...
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... use bread , but fcarcely any other vegetable , and eat falt- ed meats , they are as much troubled with the fcurvy as in any other country . But let us incidentally remark , that the late improvements in agriculture , gar- dening , and ...
... use bread , but fcarcely any other vegetable , and eat falt- ed meats , they are as much troubled with the fcurvy as in any other country . But let us incidentally remark , that the late improvements in agriculture , gar- dening , and ...
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... use a milder language : — “ Le Roy s'avisera . ” — And what is it that the congrefs fo infolently ftyles inftance , did the refufal , of which th neglect ? What but an act expreffive of the fame language ? That his Majefty should ...
... use a milder language : — “ Le Roy s'avisera . ” — And what is it that the congrefs fo infolently ftyles inftance , did the refufal , of which th neglect ? What but an act expreffive of the fame language ? That his Majefty should ...
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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...