The Scots Magazine, Volume 39Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1777 - English literature |
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... thing in a paper or extract , are generally our own . Notes added by the authors of the pieces inferted , or by the compilers of the collections from which we take them , are not fo inclosed . Examples of both may be seen , of the first ...
... thing in a paper or extract , are generally our own . Notes added by the authors of the pieces inferted , or by the compilers of the collections from which we take them , are not fo inclosed . Examples of both may be seen , of the first ...
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... thing but the truth , you had better tell him that I am dying as faft as my ene- mies ( if I have any ) could with , and as cafily SIR , London , Jan. 13. 1777 . Conftitution of Jan. 1777 . 5 The life of David Hume , Efq ;
... thing but the truth , you had better tell him that I am dying as faft as my ene- mies ( if I have any ) could with , and as cafily SIR , London , Jan. 13. 1777 . Conftitution of Jan. 1777 . 5 The life of David Hume , Efq ;
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... thing fo much as to accelerate the means of peace ; but he oppofed it , because in his opinion it would effectually mar the whole defign . It is at prefent , he faid , in the hands of the commiffioners in the regular course of business ...
... thing fo much as to accelerate the means of peace ; but he oppofed it , because in his opinion it would effectually mar the whole defign . It is at prefent , he faid , in the hands of the commiffioners in the regular course of business ...
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... thing , the obvious contents another ; fo that whatever the declara- tion promises , can be of no avail , but to mislead America by falfe lights . Our aim is unconditional fubmiflion ; every conceffion beyond that minifters can ex ...
... thing , the obvious contents another ; fo that whatever the declara- tion promises , can be of no avail , but to mislead America by falfe lights . Our aim is unconditional fubmiflion ; every conceffion beyond that minifters can ex ...
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... things the most precious , wasting time must be ( as poor Richard fays ) the greateft prodigality ; " fince , as he elfe- where tells , " Loft time is never found again ; and what we call time enough , always proves little enough ...
... things the most precious , wasting time must be ( as poor Richard fays ) the greateft prodigality ; " fince , as he elfe- where tells , " Loft time is never found again ; and what we call time enough , always proves little enough ...
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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...