The Monthly Magazine, Volume 7R. Phillips, 1799 |
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... whole paragraph would not so well have anfwered his purpofe . My words were , " that of these ( 91 ) only two had died in the house , and two more out at nurse , all at the age of two months . " The fact is fimply this . The directors ...
... whole paragraph would not so well have anfwered his purpofe . My words were , " that of these ( 91 ) only two had died in the house , and two more out at nurse , all at the age of two months . " The fact is fimply this . The directors ...
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founders of the Hamburgh Inftitution ; that when the whole adminiftration falls into the hands of under officers , they af- terwards know fo well how to embroil the bufinefs , that no fubfequent director is ever able to unravel the clue ...
founders of the Hamburgh Inftitution ; that when the whole adminiftration falls into the hands of under officers , they af- terwards know fo well how to embroil the bufinefs , that no fubfequent director is ever able to unravel the clue ...
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... whole of that year . Di- vide any of the months , or the whole year , by 4 , and it exhibits the depth of the rain , and the vaft difference of wet and dry in the whole of each year . It is worthy of your readers attention , that in the ...
... whole of that year . Di- vide any of the months , or the whole year , by 4 , and it exhibits the depth of the rain , and the vaft difference of wet and dry in the whole of each year . It is worthy of your readers attention , that in the ...
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... whole fpecies , will probably never admit of a high or complex eftimate . Senfual gratifications , and the ordinary pleasures of focial and domeftic life , may be reckoned to compofe almost the whole of it . As already obferved , the ...
... whole fpecies , will probably never admit of a high or complex eftimate . Senfual gratifications , and the ordinary pleasures of focial and domeftic life , may be reckoned to compofe almost the whole of it . As already obferved , the ...
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... whole catch about 12,000 barrels for home con- fumption : price of 1ft fort , 45s . 2d fort , 30s . and 3d fort , 20s . per barrel . This is the only deep fea fishery in the kingdom , and which is therefore the best nursery for feamen ...
... whole catch about 12,000 barrels for home con- fumption : price of 1ft fort , 45s . 2d fort , 30s . and 3d fort , 20s . per barrel . This is the only deep fea fishery in the kingdom , and which is therefore the best nursery for feamen ...
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Page 390 - Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
Page 114 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
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Page 300 - I think, held out a purse of one hundred sequins, as a reward to any adventurer who would take a boat and deliver this unhappy family.
Page 473 - I endeavour to retake it. The mischief this man does me is a hundred, or possibly a thousand times more than the other perhaps intended me (whom I killed before he really did me any); and yet I might lawfully kill the one and cannot so much as hurt the other lawfully.
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Page 300 - A great inundation having taken place in the north of Italy, owing to an excessive fall of snow in the Alps, followed by a speedy thaw, the river Adige carried off a bridge near Verona, except the middle part, on which was the house of the tollgatherer, who with his whole family thus remained imperilled by the waves, and in momentary expectation of certain destruction.