The County Magazine, Volume 1B.C. Collins, 1788 |
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For No. I. Vol . I. JANUARY , To be continued Monthly . 1786 . Price Three - Pence . The Editor is obliged to a Gentleman of Salisbury for the following Extract from a turious MS Letter , relative to the firft Difcovery of the prefent ...
For No. I. Vol . I. JANUARY , To be continued Monthly . 1786 . Price Three - Pence . The Editor is obliged to a Gentleman of Salisbury for the following Extract from a turious MS Letter , relative to the firft Difcovery of the prefent ...
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... months after , with an un- blemished reputation - He returned with his relation , Mr. Francis . It is equally worthy of remark , that not a fingle gentleman , who has been in the Governor General's family , civil or mili- tary , has ...
... months after , with an un- blemished reputation - He returned with his relation , Mr. Francis . It is equally worthy of remark , that not a fingle gentleman , who has been in the Governor General's family , civil or mili- tary , has ...
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... month , the British Envoy at the Hague was ordered to prefent from the court of London a memorial to the States General . In that memorial the Mi- nifter of this country , as if under an infatu- ation , appears anxious to announce his ...
... month , the British Envoy at the Hague was ordered to prefent from the court of London a memorial to the States General . In that memorial the Mi- nifter of this country , as if under an infatu- ation , appears anxious to announce his ...
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... month in this part of the world ; and in England we feldom have much froft or fnow before it . The weather is commonly either clear dry frost or fog and fnow , with rain now and then intermixed . Nothing can be more wonderful than the ...
... month in this part of the world ; and in England we feldom have much froft or fnow before it . The weather is commonly either clear dry frost or fog and fnow , with rain now and then intermixed . Nothing can be more wonderful than the ...
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... month ; the flowers of the mezereon and fnowdrop feem on the point of blowing ; and the catkin or male flower bunch ... months the Northern parts of Europe . The amufements of fliding , fkating , and other paftimes on the ice , give life ...
... month ; the flowers of the mezereon and fnowdrop feem on the point of blowing ; and the catkin or male flower bunch ... months the Northern parts of Europe . The amufements of fliding , fkating , and other paftimes on the ice , give life ...
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Page 360 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 105 - Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him : a new friend is as new wine ; when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
Page 46 - We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way. We then look back upon our lives with horror, with sorrow, with repentance ; and wish, but too often vainly wish, that we had not forsaken the ways of virtue.
Page 35 - Theirs is yon House that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day; — • There children dwell who know no parents...
Page 246 - Just in the dubious point, where with the pool Is mix'd the trembling stream, or where it boils Around the stone, or from the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly; And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game.
Page 46 - by what chance thou hast been brought hither ; I have been now twenty years an inhabitant of the wilderness, in which I never saw a man before.
Page 46 - He did not, however, forget whither he was travelling, but found a narrow way bordered with flowers...
Page 48 - ... the lion in his rage I meet ! Oft in the dust I view his printed feet ; And fearful oft, when Day's declining light Yields her pale empire to the mourner Night, By hunger...
Page 17 - To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue, And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own.
Page 247 - Thee dispos'd into congenial soils, Stands each attractive plant, and sucks, and swells The juicy tide; a twining mass of tubes. At Thy command the vernal sun awakes The torpid sap, detruded to the root By wintry winds; that now in fluent dance, And lively fermentation, mounting, spreads All this innumerous-coloured scene of things.