The Scots Magazine, Band 54

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Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1792
 

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Seite 278 - What occasions then so much want and misery ? It is the employment of men and women in works that produce neither the necessaries nor conveniences of life, who, with those who do nothing, consume necessaries raised by the laborious.
Seite 320 - As soon as they are cool, they are distributed to children, who sit with their anvils and hammers before them, which they work with their feet by means of a lathe ; and, taking up one* of the lengths, they thrust the blunt end into a quantity of the heads which lie before them, and catching one at the extremity, they apply...
Seite 150 - I also declare, that it is not an article of the catholic faith; neither am I thereby required to believe or profess that the pope is infallible, or that I am bound to obey any order in its own nature immoral, though the pope or any ecclesiastical power should issue or direct such order, but on the contrary...
Seite 211 - ... in him true, evident, and actual wisdom. His moral precepts are practical, for they are drawn from an intimate acquaintance with human nature. His maxims carry conviction : for they are founded on the basis of common sense, and a very attentive and minute survey of real life.
Seite 167 - I had told them the day before, that the prisoners would obtain their pardon. I made Mrs Mills take off her own hood, and put on that which I had brought for her. I then took her by the hand, and led her out of my Lord's chamber ; and, in passing through the next room, in which there were...
Seite 390 - Britain ; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full Power and Authority to make Laws and Statutes of sufficient Force and Validity to bind the Colonies and People of America, Subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever.
Seite 20 - Sir, they may talk of the King as they will; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen.
Seite 166 - I first opened my design to them, had made them consent, without ever thinking of the consequences. On our arrival at the Tower, the first I introduced was Mrs. Morgan ; for I was only allowed to take in one at a time. She brought in the clothes that were to serve Mrs. Mills, when she left her own behind her. When Mrs. Morgan had taken off what she had brought for...
Seite 256 - ... of the kingdom, which has ever prevailed in the minds of the people thereof: and whereas there is nothing which we...
Seite 169 - ... made for me, without sending me previous notice to abscond. Here I had the assurance to rest myself for two whole days, pretending that I was going to my own house with...

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