Edinburgh Magazine: Or Literary Miscellany, Volumes 14-15J. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1800 - Books and bookselling |
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... object occurred , whether " animate or inanimate . " The fu- pernatural ftrength which thefe mad men difplayed , the warriors of the north fometimes attempted to acquire by eating the flesh of bears , the hearts of wild beafts killed in ...
... object occurred , whether " animate or inanimate . " The fu- pernatural ftrength which thefe mad men difplayed , the warriors of the north fometimes attempted to acquire by eating the flesh of bears , the hearts of wild beafts killed in ...
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... objects which furround him ; numerous objects af- fect his mind , which do not injure his perfon ; and whatever acts upon the moral frame , tends to establish a phyfical habit . The expreffion of the features is gradually moulded to cha ...
... objects which furround him ; numerous objects af- fect his mind , which do not injure his perfon ; and whatever acts upon the moral frame , tends to establish a phyfical habit . The expreffion of the features is gradually moulded to cha ...
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... object than even the emancipation of the negro race , the moft formidable obftacle appeared to be the oppofition which it would ne- ceffarily receive from the flave - trade ; a fpecific plan was however formed , and a charter ...
... object than even the emancipation of the negro race , the moft formidable obftacle appeared to be the oppofition which it would ne- ceffarily receive from the flave - trade ; a fpecific plan was however formed , and a charter ...
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... objects like thefe , diffufe a gloom over the fancy , which may be com- patible enough with occafional and fócial merriment , but cannot fail to tincture the thoughts of a native in the hour of filence and folitude If thefe people ...
... objects like thefe , diffufe a gloom over the fancy , which may be com- patible enough with occafional and fócial merriment , but cannot fail to tincture the thoughts of a native in the hour of filence and folitude If thefe people ...
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... object in declaiming and writing fo violently against the government and the minifters , than to make them pur- chafe at a higher price their filence or their pen . The abbe Sieyes , a man for fyflems , a fubtle arguer , and ob 4 ...
... object in declaiming and writing fo violently against the government and the minifters , than to make them pur- chafe at a higher price their filence or their pen . The abbe Sieyes , a man for fyflems , a fubtle arguer , and ob 4 ...
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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.
Page 40 - ... him to make it of the same fashion, that the knight would have his made of. Not long after the knight coming to the...
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.