Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 58, Part 1F. Jefferies, 1789 - Early English newspapers The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs. |
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... India News , American Original Thoughts on Modern Education 25 Intelligence , Domeftic Occurrences Critical Reviewer's Opinion of Dr. John Jebb 26 Marriages , Deaths , Preferments , & c . Amiable Character of the good Bishop Hough 27 ...
... India News , American Original Thoughts on Modern Education 25 Intelligence , Domeftic Occurrences Critical Reviewer's Opinion of Dr. John Jebb 26 Marriages , Deaths , Preferments , & c . Amiable Character of the good Bishop Hough 27 ...
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... Indian , or any other Mythology . But the caufe of the error fhould feem to me to be this : Gray had juft been reading and tranflating the Norfe poetry which he found in Bar- tholinus ; it dwelt obfcurely upon , and tinctured his ...
... Indian , or any other Mythology . But the caufe of the error fhould feem to me to be this : Gray had juft been reading and tranflating the Norfe poetry which he found in Bar- tholinus ; it dwelt obfcurely upon , and tinctured his ...
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... Indian is afked how the world is fupported , he tells you , upon the back of an elephant ; and , being pushed further , perhaps , adds , that the elephant ftands on a tortoife . Juft in the fame ftate has the Doctor left the explication ...
... Indian is afked how the world is fupported , he tells you , upon the back of an elephant ; and , being pushed further , perhaps , adds , that the elephant ftands on a tortoife . Juft in the fame ftate has the Doctor left the explication ...
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... India rofe [ feiz'd- From their blank gloom ! Wonder the fenate Deep as the vulgar own , or as he felt , When fudden all Palmyra's columns burst Upon his fight ; or when the frescoed walls Of Herculaneum started into day Afresh , though ...
... India rofe [ feiz'd- From their blank gloom ! Wonder the fenate Deep as the vulgar own , or as he felt , When fudden all Palmyra's columns burst Upon his fight ; or when the frescoed walls Of Herculaneum started into day Afresh , though ...
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... India Stock lately held at their Houfe in Leaden - hall freet , it was obferved on he part of the officers who fought under Gen. Mathews in India , and who had fur- vived their cruel imprifonment in the My fore country , that they had ...
... India Stock lately held at their Houfe in Leaden - hall freet , it was obferved on he part of the officers who fought under Gen. Mathews in India , and who had fur- vived their cruel imprifonment in the My fore country , that they had ...
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Page 318 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient...
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Page 265 - For having lived long I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that, the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.
Page 405 - Wiltshire men overcame, but both dukes were slain, no reason of their quarrel written ; such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air?
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