The Bee: Or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Volume 1James Anderson Mundell and son, 1791 - Scotland |
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Page vii
... most part , by fuch men only , that practical improvements can be applied to useful purposes in life . From this cause it happens , that the discoveries made by literary men , too often ferve rather to amule the fpeculative than to ...
... most part , by fuch men only , that practical improvements can be applied to useful purposes in life . From this cause it happens , that the discoveries made by literary men , too often ferve rather to amule the fpeculative than to ...
Page ix
... most glorious achievements that can fall to the lot of man to perform . Animated with this hope , his exertions have been great ; and he trufts they will not in future be unworthy of the object he has in view . He is happy in being able ...
... most glorious achievements that can fall to the lot of man to perform . Animated with this hope , his exertions have been great ; and he trufts they will not in future be unworthy of the object he has in view . He is happy in being able ...
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... most characteristic sketch of the life of any of the great men or philofophers that follow ; viz . Gallileo ; Columbus ; Don Henry of Portugal ; Tycho Brabe ; Friar Bacon ; Alfred ; Charlemagne ; Cofmo , or Lorenzo de Medicis ; Cardinal ...
... most characteristic sketch of the life of any of the great men or philofophers that follow ; viz . Gallileo ; Columbus ; Don Henry of Portugal ; Tycho Brabe ; Friar Bacon ; Alfred ; Charlemagne ; Cofmo , or Lorenzo de Medicis ; Cardinal ...
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... of the most eminent preceptor and difinterested friend he ever had in the world . Short is the pe- riod that man is fuffered to tread this tranfitory stage VOL . I. A of existence ; nor is it in the power of THE BEE, ...
... of the most eminent preceptor and difinterested friend he ever had in the world . Short is the pe- riod that man is fuffered to tread this tranfitory stage VOL . I. A of existence ; nor is it in the power of THE BEE, ...
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... most eminent men in the medical line in Scotland , their attention was foon directed towards Cullen ; fo that on the death of Doctor Plumber , profeffor of chemistry in Edin- burgh , which happened in the year 1756 , Doctor Cullen was ...
... most eminent men in the medical line in Scotland , their attention was foon directed towards Cullen ; fo that on the death of Doctor Plumber , profeffor of chemistry in Edin- burgh , which happened in the year 1756 , Doctor Cullen was ...
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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...