The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 30

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F. Jefferies, 1760 - Early English newspapers
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Page 276 - Narrow is thy dwelling now! dark the place of thine abode! With three steps I compass thy grave, O thou who wast so great before!
Page 521 - What power could make the deep divide? Make Jordan backward roll his tide? ' Why did ye leap, ye little hills ? And whence the fright that Sinai feels? 5 Let every mountain, every flood Retire, and know th' approaching God, The King of Israel : see him here ! Tremble, thou earth, adore and fear.
Page 11 - ... why the only thinking being of this globe is doomed to think merely to be wretched, and to pass his time from youth to age in fearing or in suffering calamities, is a question which philosophers have long asked, and which philosophy could never answer.
Page 276 - Morar's fame; why did he not hear of his wound ? Weep, thou father of Morar ! weep, but thy son heareth thee not.
Page 276 - RYNO The wind and the rain are past: calm is the noon of day. The clouds are divided in heaven. Over the green hills flies the inconstant sun.
Page 191 - III., by whom he was advanced to the dignities of Duke of the Kingdom of Great Britain, and of Earl of the Kingdom of Ireland...
Page 8 - Get the substance of your sermon, which you have prepared for the pulpit, so wrought into your head and heart, by review and meditation, that you may have it at command, and speak to your hearers with freedom; not as if you were reading or repeating your lesson to them, but as a man sent to teach and persuade, them to faith and holiness. Deliver your discourses to the people, like a man that is talking to them in good earnest about their most important concerns, and their...
Page 275 - Autumn is dark on the mountains; grey mist rests on the hills. The whirlwind is heard on the heath. Dark rolls the river through the narrow plain. A tree stands alone on the hill, and marks the grave of Connal.
Page 70 - Love. Ay, both ! we are pretty fellows indeed ! Mrs. Bell. I am glad to find you are awakened to a sense of your error. Love, I am, madam, and am frank enough to own it.
Page 177 - But as, by virtue of their treaties, they cannot enter into any engagement relating to peace but in conjunction with their allies, it will be...

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