The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Volume 6J. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1787 - Books and bookselling |
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... tion on the horfes , and to obferve the ftate of the blood - veffels , & c . af- ter the fkin had been taken off ; but a gentleman of the neighbourhood , who kept a pack of hounds , had al- ready feized on them . Several other phænomena ...
... tion on the horfes , and to obferve the ftate of the blood - veffels , & c . af- ter the fkin had been taken off ; but a gentleman of the neighbourhood , who kept a pack of hounds , had al- ready feized on them . Several other phænomena ...
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... tion , by heating and cooling of the magnet , as obferved by Mr Canton , together with the refult of the ex- periments recited in this Paper , feem fully fufficient to account for the general variation of the needle . If we collect ...
... tion , by heating and cooling of the magnet , as obferved by Mr Canton , together with the refult of the ex- periments recited in this Paper , feem fully fufficient to account for the general variation of the needle . If we collect ...
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... tion of Chrift Kirk from the two MSS . 3. Henry , to be printed from the edi- tion 1570 ; restoring the two paf- fages in ftanzas to their original uniformity , and omitting the chap- ters . 4. Dunbar's poems to be first col- lected in ...
... tion of Chrift Kirk from the two MSS . 3. Henry , to be printed from the edi- tion 1570 ; restoring the two paf- fages in ftanzas to their original uniformity , and omitting the chap- ters . 4. Dunbar's poems to be first col- lected in ...
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... tion like yours ; yet I cannot think the most diffipated reader will be offended at your infertion of the following quotation from a periodi- cal paper called the Microcofm , now publifhing at London . The author , after tracing a ...
... tion like yours ; yet I cannot think the most diffipated reader will be offended at your infertion of the following quotation from a periodi- cal paper called the Microcofm , now publifhing at London . The author , after tracing a ...
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... tion , is the government most natural to the inhabitants of warm countries . As many , relying on fuch refpectable authority , have adopted these opi- nions without confideration , I fhall here state some objections that feem naturally ...
... tion , is the government most natural to the inhabitants of warm countries . As many , relying on fuch refpectable authority , have adopted these opi- nions without confideration , I fhall here state some objections that feem naturally ...
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Page 158 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 126 - If a white man in travelling through our country, enters one of our cabins, we all treat him as I treat you; we dry him if he is wet, we warm him if he is cold, and give him meat and drink, that he may allay his...
Page 158 - Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have...
Page 286 - To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began.
Page 125 - Facts on which our Religion is founded, such as the Fall of our first Parents by Eating an Apple, the Coming of Christ to repair the Mischief, his Miracles and Suffering, &c. When he had finished, an Indian Orator stood up to thank him. What you have told us, says he, is all very good.
Page 158 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat : if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Page 125 - Having frequent occasions to hold public councils, they have acquired great order and decency in conducting them. The old men sit in the foremost ranks, the warriors in the next, and the women and children in the hindmost.
Page 158 - In the autumn of the same year a decisive battle was fought at the mouth of the Great Kanhaway, between the collected forces of the Shawanese, Mingoes, and Delawares, and a detachment of the Virginia militia. The Indians were defeated, and sued for peace.
Page 56 - Napier was doubtful he would not come. It happened one day as John Marr and the lord Napier were speaking of Mr. Briggs ; ' Ah, John,' said Marchiston, ' Mr. Briggs will not now come.
Page 255 - As those we love decay, we die in part, String after string is sever'd from the heart ; Till loosen'd life at last — but breathing clay, Without one pang, is glad to fall away. Unhappy he who latest feels the blow, Whose eyes have wept o'er every friend laid low, Dragg'd lingering on from partial death to death, Till dying, all he can resign is breath.