The Magazine of Magazines: Compiled from Original Pieces, with Extracts from the Most Celebrated Books, and Periodical Compositions, Published in Europe... The Whole Forming a Complete Literary and Historical Account of that Period..., Volume 13

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Andrew Welsh, 1757

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Page 273 - My heart acquits me of these crimes; but who can be presumptuously sure of his own judgment? If my crime is an error in judgment, or differing in opinion from my judges, and if yet the error in...
Page 407 - ... according to the degree in which corruption has prevailed over them, or the manner in which it has attacked them. Some appear dry and withered; others have a sort of parchment upon their bones; some look as if they were baked and smoked, without any appearance of rottenness; some are just turning towards the point of putrefaction'; while others are all swarming with worms, and drowned in corruption. I know not...
Page 509 - My health was at length impaired by the inquietude of my mind ; I sold all my moveables for subsistence ; and reserved only a" mattress upon which I sometimes lay from one night to another.
Page 411 - ... that they are obliged to apply the fire to awaken him, and renew his fufferings. He is again fattened to the ftake, and again they renew their cruelty : They ftick him all over with fmall matches of...
Page 293 - We have no reason, therefore, to look upon death as an evil, or to fear it as a...
Page 407 - The day of this ceremony is appointed in the council of their chiefs, who give orders for every thing which may enable them to celebrate it with pomp and magnificence. The riches of the nation are exhausted on this occasion, and all their ingenuity displayed.
Page 411 - ... or weary of cruelty, puts an end to his life with a club or a dagger. The body is then put into the kettle, and this barbarous employment is fucceeded by a feaft as barbarous. The women, forgetting the human as well as the female nature...
Page 412 - ... appear to be, of the value of commerce, the art of a civilized life, and the lights of literature; which, if they have abated the force of...
Page 117 - which are two sentiments so different in themselves, differ not so much in their cause. From the instance of tickling it appears, that the movement of pleasure pushed a little too far, becomes pain, and that the movement of pain, a little moderated, becomes pleasure.
Page 508 - Mecca, and overlooks the city, found one evening a man sitting pensive and alone, within a few paces of his cell. Omar regarded him with attention, and perceived that his looks were wild and haggard, and that his body was feeble and emaciated : the man...

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