The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining KnowledgeJames Potts, 1784 |
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... must know little indeed of finance who maintain a pofition fo faile , How are the ways and means raised ? How do half of the inhabi- tants of London live ? What fupports pub- lic places ? What puts inn - keepers int ○ coaches , and ...
... must know little indeed of finance who maintain a pofition fo faile , How are the ways and means raised ? How do half of the inhabi- tants of London live ? What fupports pub- lic places ? What puts inn - keepers int ○ coaches , and ...
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... must be to men , to re- view the hiftory of the venerable father of their race . He ingeniously obferves that when God created the inanimate and irra- sional part of nature , he feemed to do it without the leaft heftation , but wàch ke ...
... must be to men , to re- view the hiftory of the venerable father of their race . He ingeniously obferves that when God created the inanimate and irra- sional part of nature , he feemed to do it without the leaft heftation , but wàch ke ...
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... must be a very en- lightened , or , a very obdurate heart in deed , that is incapable of being meliora- ted by fuch an exercife . " Some with more zeal and honefty , than wifdom and truth , have laboured to discover and efta . blith a ...
... must be a very en- lightened , or , a very obdurate heart in deed , that is incapable of being meliora- ted by fuch an exercife . " Some with more zeal and honefty , than wifdom and truth , have laboured to discover and efta . blith a ...
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... must have appeared otherwife . Cain was a more ingenious man than his brother , and it is to be supposed that he would look about for objects on which to exercise his ingenuity . He was , indeed , a more wicked man ; but that ...
... must have appeared otherwife . Cain was a more ingenious man than his brother , and it is to be supposed that he would look about for objects on which to exercise his ingenuity . He was , indeed , a more wicked man ; but that ...
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... must give up the unequal conteft . Subscribe then liberally , my vir . tuous countrymen , in his behalf ; and be affured , that whatever the fums may a- mount to , they fhall be depofited in the National Bank , and faithfully applied in ...
... must give up the unequal conteft . Subscribe then liberally , my vir . tuous countrymen , in his behalf ; and be affured , that whatever the fums may a- mount to , they fhall be depofited in the National Bank , and faithfully applied in ...
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Page 370 - God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting. To thee, all Angels cry aloud; the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To thee, Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory.
Page 389 - And accordingly she is provided with the organs and faculty of speech, by which she can throw out signs with amazing facility, and vary them without end. Thus we have built up an animal body, which would...
Page 425 - We furl'd the sail, we plied the labouring oar, Took down our masts, and row'd our ships to shore. Two tedious days and two long nights we lay, O'erwatch'd and batter'd in the naked bay. But the third morning when Aurora brings...
Page 89 - ... a privateer, I should have been entitled to clothing and maintenance during the rest of my life; but that was not my chance: one man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with a wooden ladle. However, blessed be God! I enjoy good health, and will for ever love liberty and Old England. Liberty, property, and Old England, for ever, huzza!
Page 134 - The man indeed ought not to cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God ; but the woman is the glory of the man.
Page 174 - The Discovery of a New World ; or, a Discourse tending to prove that it is probable there may be another habitable World in the Moon ; with a Discourse concerning the possibility of a passage thither.
Page 89 - I chose the latter : and in this post of a gentleman I served two campaigns in Flanders, was at the battles of Val and Fontenoy, and received but one wound, through the breast here ; but the doctor of our regiment soon made me well again.
Page 348 - The politeness of these savages in conversation is indeed carried to excess, since it does not permit them to contradict or deny the truth of what is asserted in their presence.
Page 89 - I was once more in the power of the French, and I believe it would have gone hard with me had I been brought back to Brest : but, by good fortune, we were retaken by the Viper.
Page 380 - ... the other being loft in the dirt. •' They continued to wander through the open meadows, without following any certain path» and without getting to any diftance from Warfaw.