Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Band 67,Teil 2

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F. Jefferies, 1797
The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.
 

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Seite 586 - I would retire to the uttermost corners of the earth, to avoid their agitation, and would bear, not only the imperfections and abuses complained of in our own wise establishment, but even the worst government that ever existed in the world, rather than go to the work of reformation with a multitude set free from all the charities of Christianity, who had no other sense of God's existence than was to be collected from Mr. Paine's observation of nature, which the mass...
Seite 587 - In running the mind over the long list of sincere and devout Christians, I cannot help lamenting that Newton had not lived to this day, to have had his shallowness filled up with this new flood of light.
Seite 958 - ... of Providence, has recently attended his arms, he is yet ready (if the calamities of war can now be clofed) to conclude peace on the fame moderate and equitable principles and terms which he has before propofed...
Seite 587 - But this error might, perhaps, arise from a want of due attention to the foundations of human judgment, and the structure of that understanding which God has given us for the investigation of truth.
Seite 958 - While this determination continues to prevail, His Majefty's earneft wifhes and endeavours to reftore Peace to His Subjects muft be fruitlefs. But His Sentiments remain unaltered. He looks with anxious expectation, to the moment when the Government of France may (hew a difpofition and fpirit in any degree correfponding to His own.
Seite 601 - The poet leads us through the appearances of things as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of his own enthusiasm that our thoughts expand with his imagery and kindle with his sentiments.
Seite 597 - Matthews being the first); and two in the housekeeper's room, for the ladies' women. The Earl entered the dining-room, attended by his gentlemen. As soon as he was seated, Sir Ralph Blackstone, steward of the house, retired. The comptroller, Mr. Holland, attended with his staff, as did the sewer, Mr.

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