The Scots Magazine, Volume 51Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1789 - English literature |
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... represents , but fomething else that is , or is supposed to be , of a like nature . Thus the figure of a lamp , among the Egyptian priefts , g- nified , not a lamp , but life ; a circle was the emblem of eternity ; and an eye on the top ...
... represents , but fomething else that is , or is supposed to be , of a like nature . Thus the figure of a lamp , among the Egyptian priefts , g- nified , not a lamp , but life ; a circle was the emblem of eternity ; and an eye on the top ...
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... represented the national debt as having the fame operation with the addition of fo much capital ftock to the nation , encouraging the induftry of it , & c . But whatever money is iffued in the form of paper by the government , it is ...
... represented the national debt as having the fame operation with the addition of fo much capital ftock to the nation , encouraging the induftry of it , & c . But whatever money is iffued in the form of paper by the government , it is ...
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... represented Lord Medway . About 1764 , he went to France , and took up his refidence at Blois , by order of his Majefty , as it has been af- ferted . During his refidence at this place he loft his wife , who died there on the 26th of ...
... represented Lord Medway . About 1764 , he went to France , and took up his refidence at Blois , by order of his Majefty , as it has been af- ferted . During his refidence at this place he loft his wife , who died there on the 26th of ...
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... represented as a cruel tyrant : this is the opinion foreign nations have formed of me ; but how can they judge ? They do not know the circumftances I was in at the beginning of my reign ; how many people oppofed my defigns ...
... represented as a cruel tyrant : this is the opinion foreign nations have formed of me ; but how can they judge ? They do not know the circumftances I was in at the beginning of my reign ; how many people oppofed my defigns ...
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... represented by a female figure , is in the act of dropping the laurel on the uncrowned head , and Britannia kneel . ing , with arms extended , seems ready to receive her King with a countenance finely expreffive of gratitude and joy ...
... represented by a female figure , is in the act of dropping the laurel on the uncrowned head , and Britannia kneel . ing , with arms extended , seems ready to receive her King with a countenance finely expreffive of gratitude and joy ...
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