The Bee: Or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Volume 1James Anderson Mundell and son, 1791 - Scotland |
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Page 86
... debt , of which only the intereft is paid , and the capital remains for ever dor- mant , -whether it originated from a ... debts , to meet its own difficulties . We look up with gratitude to our heroic ancestors , who at any time ...
... debt , of which only the intereft is paid , and the capital remains for ever dor- mant , -whether it originated from a ... debts , to meet its own difficulties . We look up with gratitude to our heroic ancestors , who at any time ...
Page 87
... debt due by a people .. covery . Wr . Thomas Christie - London Critical Remarks on the Othello of Shakespear , continued from page 62 . SHAKESPEAR has adorned the hero of this tragedy with every virtue that can render human nature great ...
... debt due by a people .. covery . Wr . Thomas Christie - London Critical Remarks on the Othello of Shakespear , continued from page 62 . SHAKESPEAR has adorned the hero of this tragedy with every virtue that can render human nature great ...
Page 107
... debts , while despair increaseth them , " fays poor Richard . What though you have found no treafure , nor has any rich relation left you a legacy ? " Diligence is the mother of good - luck , " as poor Richard fays ; and , " God gives ...
... debts , while despair increaseth them , " fays poor Richard . What though you have found no treafure , nor has any rich relation left you a legacy ? " Diligence is the mother of good - luck , " as poor Richard fays ; and , " God gives ...
Page 147
... debt for these fu- perfluities ! We are offered by the terms of this fale fix months credit ; and that , perhaps , has induced fome of us to attend it , because we cannot spare the ready money , and hope now to be fine without it . But ...
... debt for these fu- perfluities ! We are offered by the terms of this fale fix months credit ; and that , perhaps , has induced fome of us to attend it , because we cannot spare the ready money , and hope now to be fine without it . But ...
Page 148
... debt . ” And again , to the fame purpose , " Lying rides upon debt's back ; whereas a free - born Englishman ought not to be afhamed nor afraid to fee or fpeak to any man living . But poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and ...
... debt . ” And again , to the fame purpose , " Lying rides upon debt's back ; whereas a free - born Englishman ought not to be afhamed nor afraid to fee or fpeak to any man living . But poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and ...
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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...