The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining KnowledgeJames Potts, 1784 |
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... she had kept an exact account of the number of days the had been buried . She did not feem to be in bad health , drinks freely , but has yet a difficulty in fwallowing any thing folid . The other girl was about eleven years of age ; the ...
... she had kept an exact account of the number of days the had been buried . She did not feem to be in bad health , drinks freely , but has yet a difficulty in fwallowing any thing folid . The other girl was about eleven years of age ; the ...
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... she burst into an agony of tears , which finding the vent they had long fought , now flowed un- checked down her cheeks , fad monitors of the weakness of reafon oppofed to the ànguish of forrow ! pleasure , I have no power to give it ...
... she burst into an agony of tears , which finding the vent they had long fought , now flowed un- checked down her cheeks , fad monitors of the weakness of reafon oppofed to the ànguish of forrow ! pleasure , I have no power to give it ...
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... She read , therefore , with fadnefs , but not bitterness , her farewell , and received not with disdain , but with gratitude , ber fympathy . Yet , though ber indignation was not irritated , her fuf- ferings were doubled , by a farewell ...
... She read , therefore , with fadnefs , but not bitterness , her farewell , and received not with disdain , but with gratitude , ber fympathy . Yet , though ber indignation was not irritated , her fuf- ferings were doubled , by a farewell ...
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... She knelt at my feet , fhe im plored my forgiveness and compaffion , the wept with the bitterness of despair , -and yet I fpurned her from me ! -Spurned ? let me not hide my thame ! I barbarously ftruck her ! -nor fingle was the blow ...
... She knelt at my feet , fhe im plored my forgiveness and compaffion , the wept with the bitterness of despair , -and yet I fpurned her from me ! -Spurned ? let me not hide my thame ! I barbarously ftruck her ! -nor fingle was the blow ...
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... she was tall , genteel and elegant her features were regular , her eyes uncommonly brilliant and captivat ing ; her coral lips could only be improved by difplaying two rows of teeth , that ri- valled ivory in whitenefs , and were per ...
... she was tall , genteel and elegant her features were regular , her eyes uncommonly brilliant and captivat ing ; her coral lips could only be improved by difplaying two rows of teeth , that ri- valled ivory in whitenefs , and were per ...
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Page 370 - God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting. To thee, all Angels cry aloud; the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To thee, Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory.
Page 389 - And accordingly she is provided with the organs and faculty of speech, by which she can throw out signs with amazing facility, and vary them without end. Thus we have built up an animal body, which would...
Page 425 - We furl'd the sail, we plied the labouring oar, Took down our masts, and row'd our ships to shore. Two tedious days and two long nights we lay, O'erwatch'd and batter'd in the naked bay. But the third morning when Aurora brings...
Page 89 - ... a privateer, I should have been entitled to clothing and maintenance during the rest of my life; but that was not my chance: one man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with a wooden ladle. However, blessed be God! I enjoy good health, and will for ever love liberty and Old England. Liberty, property, and Old England, for ever, huzza!
Page 134 - The man indeed ought not to cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God ; but the woman is the glory of the man.
Page 174 - The Discovery of a New World ; or, a Discourse tending to prove that it is probable there may be another habitable World in the Moon ; with a Discourse concerning the possibility of a passage thither.
Page 89 - I chose the latter : and in this post of a gentleman I served two campaigns in Flanders, was at the battles of Val and Fontenoy, and received but one wound, through the breast here ; but the doctor of our regiment soon made me well again.
Page 348 - The politeness of these savages in conversation is indeed carried to excess, since it does not permit them to contradict or deny the truth of what is asserted in their presence.
Page 89 - I was once more in the power of the French, and I believe it would have gone hard with me had I been brought back to Brest : but, by good fortune, we were retaken by the Viper.
Page 380 - ... the other being loft in the dirt. •' They continued to wander through the open meadows, without following any certain path» and without getting to any diftance from Warfaw.