The Bee: Or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Volume 1James Anderson Mundell and son, 1791 - Scotland |
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Page 36
... several substances that had been before claffed as earths , were found to be metal- lic ores , which had not been hitherto recognized as fuch and there feems now reafon to believe that the whole of the fubftances that have been hitherto ...
... several substances that had been before claffed as earths , were found to be metal- lic ores , which had not been hitherto recognized as fuch and there feems now reafon to believe that the whole of the fubftances that have been hitherto ...
Page 40
... several weeks . In paffing that way , he accidentally ftruck one of them with his foot ; and finding it firm , he took it up . The weight furprised him . On cutting it up , he found it fresh and fit for ufe . He carried it as a ...
... several weeks . In paffing that way , he accidentally ftruck one of them with his foot ; and finding it firm , he took it up . The weight furprised him . On cutting it up , he found it fresh and fit for ufe . He carried it as a ...
Page 150
... the former part of the fame article . From these several claffes of injuries , what are the al- lotments of fatisfaction refpectively provided . For the first clafs - fpecific reftitution , and reftitution 150 Jan. 26 THE BEE , OR.
... the former part of the fame article . From these several claffes of injuries , what are the al- lotments of fatisfaction refpectively provided . For the first clafs - fpecific reftitution , and reftitution 150 Jan. 26 THE BEE , OR.
Page 266
... several towns and refpectable corporations have contributed libe- rally towards the fame end . It will always afford us par- ticula : pleafure to mark the progress of improvement in this branch ; and with that view we fhall be careful ...
... several towns and refpectable corporations have contributed libe- rally towards the fame end . It will always afford us par- ticula : pleafure to mark the progress of improvement in this branch ; and with that view we fhall be careful ...
Page 273
... several temporary acts , and at last made perpetual , by 16th George III . cap . 8. From the first re- moval of the prohibition , there was a small annual impor- tation ; but it was never carried on to any great extent till 1784 , when ...
... several temporary acts , and at last made perpetual , by 16th George III . cap . 8. From the first re- moval of the prohibition , there was a small annual impor- tation ; but it was never carried on to any great extent till 1784 , when ...
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Page 136 - But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live, or bear no life ; The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up...
Page 71 - All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have; but nature should bring forth, .Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 108 - Master will do more Work than both his Hands; and again, Want of Care does us more Damage than Want of Knowledge; and again. Not to oversee Workmen, is to leave them your Purse open. Trusting too much to others' Care is the Ruin of many; for, as the Almanack says.
Page 71 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things: For no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all, And women too, but innocent and pure : No sovereignty— Seb.
Page 34 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Page 148 - At present, perhaps, you may think yourself in thriving circumstances, and that you can bear a little extravagance without injury; but, For age and want, save while you may; No morning sun lasts a whole day, as Poor Richard says.
Page 148 - Creditors are a superstitious Sect, great Observers of set Days and Times. The Day comes round before you are aware, and the Demand is made before you are prepared to satisfy it; or if you bear your Debt in Mind, the Term which at first seemed so long, will, as it lessens, appear extremely short.
Page 106 - Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time enough, always proves little enough: Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the Purpose; so by Diligence shall we do more with less Perplexity. Sloth makes all Things difficult, but Industry all easy...
Page 33 - I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men...
Page 34 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone...