Edinburgh Magazine: Or Literary Miscellany, Volumes 14-15J. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1800 - Books and bookselling |
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... Gothic fu- perditions retained by the common people of that country to a very late period . Į . ( The Critique on Kotzebuč continued in our next . ) diflance three miles north - weft from Edin- burgh . The The Gleaner .--- No . XV . S.
... Gothic fu- perditions retained by the common people of that country to a very late period . Į . ( The Critique on Kotzebuč continued in our next . ) diflance three miles north - weft from Edin- burgh . The The Gleaner .--- No . XV . S.
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... continued by others . By thefe methods , the popu lation on the coaft has been much diminished , and the intercourfe of towns and diftricts rendered danger- ous : the people are rendered more barbarous than in the interior parts of the ...
... continued by others . By thefe methods , the popu lation on the coaft has been much diminished , and the intercourfe of towns and diftricts rendered danger- ous : the people are rendered more barbarous than in the interior parts of the ...
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... continued to regulate the inter- courfe of white men with their fable brethren , to degrade the negro , and difgrace the European . The immenfe edifice of flavery continued to infult the eyes of the fons of freedom ; and , undeterred by ...
... continued to regulate the inter- courfe of white men with their fable brethren , to degrade the negro , and difgrace the European . The immenfe edifice of flavery continued to infult the eyes of the fons of freedom ; and , undeterred by ...
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... continued at Mitcham two years and a half , but died of a confumption in Oct. 1790 , about the age of 19 or 20 years . his reflections are often original , but the relations of his ideas are feldom accurately defined . Yet Wadftrom , in ...
... continued at Mitcham two years and a half , but died of a confumption in Oct. 1790 , about the age of 19 or 20 years . his reflections are often original , but the relations of his ideas are feldom accurately defined . Yet Wadftrom , in ...
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... Sieyes entirely changed his tone in the af- fembly , to the great aflonishment of thofe who were unacquainted with his feeret . They continued fitting for ly to the honour of the cardinal de Rohan : Anecdotes of the Abbé Sieyes , & c . 29.
... Sieyes entirely changed his tone in the af- fembly , to the great aflonishment of thofe who were unacquainted with his feeret . They continued fitting for ly to the honour of the cardinal de Rohan : Anecdotes of the Abbé Sieyes , & c . 29.
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Page 284 - ... and (as a matter of infinite importance in my judgment) by associating with each other, and forming friendships in juvenile years, be enabled to free themselves in a proper degree from those local prejudices...
Page 330 - But as he is convinced that the fashion of moralizing in verse has been carried too far, and as he looks upon invention and imagination to be the chief faculties of a poet, so he will be happy if the following Odes may be looked upon as an attempt to bring back poetry into its right channel.
Page 283 - The negroes thus bound, are (by their masters or mistresses) to be taught to read and write, and to be brought up to some useful occupation, agreeably to the laws of the commonwealth of Virginia, providing for the support of orphan and other poor children.
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Page 341 - Vernon, then less extensive in domain than at present, should become his property,) I give and bequeath all that part thereof, which is comprehended within the following limits, viz. Beginning at the ford of Dogue Run, near my Mill, and extending along the road, and bounded thereby, as it now goes, and ever has gone, since my recollection of it, to the ford of Little Hunting Creek, at the Gum Spring...
Page 284 - ... to see the youth of these United States sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education, often before their minds were formed or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of the happiness of their own, contracting too frequently not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican government and to the true and genuine liberties of mankind, •which thereafter are rarely overcome.
Page 286 - I give and bequeath all the papers in my possession, which relate to my civil and military administration of the affairs of this country. I leave to him also such of my private papers as are worth preserving; and at the decease of my wife, and before, if she is not inclined to retain them, I give and bequeath my library of books and pamphlets of every kind.
Page 283 - ... the latter, while both descriptions are in the occupancy of the same proprietor ; it not being in my power, under the tenure by which the dower negroes are held, to manumit them.
Page 342 - In consideration of the consanguinity between them and my wife, being as nearly related to her as to myself, as on account of the affection I had for, and the obligation I was under to, their father when living, who from his youth had attached himself to my person, and followed my fortunes through the...
Page 120 - His Majesty will eagerly embrace the opportunity to concert with his allies the means of immediate and general pacification. Unhappily no such security hitherto exists : no sufficient evidence of the principles by which the new government will be directed ; no reasonable ground by which to judge of its stability.