The Bee: Or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Volume 3James Anderson Mundell and Son, Parliament Stairs, 1791 |
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... esteem than Livy , as having a much nearer refemblance to Dr , Smith's own manner of writing . Befides his miracles , Livy contains an immenfe number of the most obvious and 4 . May 11 , ANECDOTES OF THE LATE DR . SMITH .
... esteem than Livy , as having a much nearer refemblance to Dr , Smith's own manner of writing . Befides his miracles , Livy contains an immenfe number of the most obvious and 4 . May 11 , ANECDOTES OF THE LATE DR . SMITH .
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... manner as at my refidence . “ I never had any ambition for the reputation of an author , yet I have frequently had it in my head , to write a treatife , which fhould be entitled The Art of Idleness . " The purport of it would be , to ...
... manner as at my refidence . “ I never had any ambition for the reputation of an author , yet I have frequently had it in my head , to write a treatife , which fhould be entitled The Art of Idleness . " The purport of it would be , to ...
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... manners of the people are more fimple , the propagation augments in a manner ftill more rapidly . " Thus far the text ; and the conclufions feem to be very fairly deducible from the facts ; yet it will be no difficult matter to fhew ...
... manners of the people are more fimple , the propagation augments in a manner ftill more rapidly . " Thus far the text ; and the conclufions feem to be very fairly deducible from the facts ; yet it will be no difficult matter to fhew ...
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... manner , if these 1200 went from the country into the town , all their births must have appeared in the registers there , and none of their deaths ; fo that it would appear by these registers that the country was as furprisingly ...
... manner , if these 1200 went from the country into the town , all their births must have appeared in the registers there , and none of their deaths ; fo that it would appear by these registers that the country was as furprisingly ...
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... manner , we would conclude from the bills of mortality , that they were decreafing very faft . In like manner , if people are emigrating fast from any country , could we obtain an accurate lift of the births and the deaths , we fhould ...
... manner , we would conclude from the bills of mortality , that they were decreafing very faft . In like manner , if people are emigrating fast from any country , could we obtain an accurate lift of the births and the deaths , we fhould ...
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Page 311 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 97 - ... the foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality ; and the pre-eminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens, and command the respect of the world.
Page 96 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men, more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency...
Page 336 - Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends ; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Page 257 - I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Page 276 - At the desire of many of his friends, his body was carried into the chapel the day preceding the interment, and there lay in a kind of state becoming the person, dressed in his clerical habit, with gown, cassock, and band ; the old clerical cap on his head, a Bible in one hand, and a white handkerchief in the other.
Page 303 - Strange cozenage ! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain, And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. I'm tired of waiting for this chymic gold Which fools us young and beggars us when old.
Page 325 - A stately tree grew on the plain ; its branches were covered with verdure ; its boughs spread wide, and made a goodly shadow ; the trunk was like a strong pillar ; the roots were like crooked fangs.
Page 323 - This is my story, — now to the prayer of my petition. I never before envied you the possession of the Orkneys, which I now do only to provide for this eloquent innocent apostle. The sun has refused your barren...
Page xxxvi - And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of fleep ; for now is our falvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far fpent, the day is at hand ; let us therefore caft off the works of darknefs, and let us put on the armour of light.