The Bee: Or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Volume 1James Anderson Mundell and son, 1791 - Scotland |
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... fuppofed aptly to allude in these beautiful lines : " Full many a gem of pureft ray ferene " The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ; " And many a rofe is born to blush unseen , " And wafte its sweetness on the defert air . " GRAY ...
... fuppofed aptly to allude in these beautiful lines : " Full many a gem of pureft ray ferene " The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear ; " And many a rofe is born to blush unseen , " And wafte its sweetness on the defert air . " GRAY ...
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... fuppofed fact , who may never have an oppor- tunity of meeting with its refutation . Thefe , in their turn , may reafon upon the fact , and publish it in other works . Error may thus be propagated among millions who never shall have an ...
... fuppofed fact , who may never have an oppor- tunity of meeting with its refutation . Thefe , in their turn , may reafon upon the fact , and publish it in other works . Error may thus be propagated among millions who never shall have an ...
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... fuppofed he beheld the fair fex with indifference . Very early in life , he took a strong attachment to an amiable woman , a Mifs Johnston † , nearly of his own age , who was prevailed on to join with him in the facred bonds of wedlock ...
... fuppofed he beheld the fair fex with indifference . Very early in life , he took a strong attachment to an amiable woman , a Mifs Johnston † , nearly of his own age , who was prevailed on to join with him in the facred bonds of wedlock ...
Page 66
... fuppofed , disappointed , from the chace : my imagination at leaft made me conclude this was the cafe . I leave the reader to draw what conclufions he thinks natural from this fact . Having had my attention thus awakened with regard to ...
... fuppofed , disappointed , from the chace : my imagination at leaft made me conclude this was the cafe . I leave the reader to draw what conclufions he thinks natural from this fact . Having had my attention thus awakened with regard to ...
Page 89
... , and defcribes what were his sensations , in a very ftriking manner- Nine or ten times I thought to have jerked him under the ribs . VOL . I. M4 The fumes of paffion are now fuppofed to be diffipa- 1791 . 89 * LITERARY INTELLIGENCER .
... , and defcribes what were his sensations , in a very ftriking manner- Nine or ten times I thought to have jerked him under the ribs . VOL . I. M4 The fumes of paffion are now fuppofed to be diffipa- 1791 . 89 * LITERARY INTELLIGENCER .
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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...