The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer, Volume 8James Anderson Mundell and Son, Parliament Stairs, 1792 - Books, Reviews |
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... island of Great Britain in point of ' value per fleece : As to carcase , I fhall reserve giving my opinion till I have an answer to the following questions from Mr Sherif , or whoever published the above account . I. What was the fheep ...
... island of Great Britain in point of ' value per fleece : As to carcase , I fhall reserve giving my opinion till I have an answer to the following questions from Mr Sherif , or whoever published the above account . I. What was the fheep ...
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... island . His family consisted of a wife and three young children . He possessed a number of slaves , whose looks and whole appearence betokened that their servitude was not grievous . Indeed Wilmot was one of those benevolent characters ...
... island . His family consisted of a wife and three young children . He possessed a number of slaves , whose looks and whole appearence betokened that their servitude was not grievous . Indeed Wilmot was one of those benevolent characters ...
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... island , about half a mile long , lying off the S. E. end of this country . This castle stands about twenty yards from the sea , and seems to be of a different kind from any others in the country , there being no ditches round it ; but ...
... island , about half a mile long , lying off the S. E. end of this country . This castle stands about twenty yards from the sea , and seems to be of a different kind from any others in the country , there being no ditches round it ; but ...
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... island , where no Englishman ever could have had an oppor- tunity of seeing them . Hence it is not at all probable that they could have formed an idea of imitating them . From this circumstance we may naturally infer , In the second ...
... island , where no Englishman ever could have had an oppor- tunity of seeing them . Hence it is not at all probable that they could have formed an idea of imitating them . From this circumstance we may naturally infer , In the second ...
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... island ; he told me that these negroes sometimes went on board English fhips , to make depredations on the Spanish islands ; he made me unde nd , that in one of those cruises , Ellaroe and her father might be rescued . He awakened in my ...
... island ; he told me that these negroes sometimes went on board English fhips , to make depredations on the Spanish islands ; he made me unde nd , that in one of those cruises , Ellaroe and her father might be rescued . He awakened in my ...
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Abbé animals appear beautiful Benbecula Benin Bow wow wow Britain Britiſh businefs called captain Chicory circumstances coast commodore continued correspondent court dhunes duke Editor Ellaroe emperor employed Engliſh Europe expence eyes father favour fhall fhips fhort fhould fiſh Fort St George France French galleries harbour head heart Hebrides honour hope hundred island John Bernoulli kind king king of Sweden land late lefs letters literary Loch Loch Bracadale lofs Macleod manner March 28 Matomba ment mind nation nature necefsary neral never observations Ofsian pafsion paſsage persons plant pofsible poſseſsion pounds present prince publiſhed readers reason received respect Ruſsia salt Scotland seeds ſhall ſhip silk silk-worm soon Spain Spaniſh Staffa ther thing thou thousand tion Tobermory vefsel verses viii whole worm young Zimeo
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Page 259 - In the loose rhymes of every poetaster ; Could I be more than any man that lives, Great, fair, rich, wise, all in superlatives ; Yet I more freely would these gifts resign, , Than ever fortune would have made them mine, And hold one minute of this holy leisure Beyond the riches of this empty pleasure.
Page 258 - I would be great, but that the sun doth still Level his rays against the rising hill: I would be high, but see the proudest oak Most subject to the rending thunder-stroke: I would be rich, but see men too unkind, Dig in the bowels of the richest mind: I would be wise, but that I often see The fox suspected, whilst the ass goes free...
Page 259 - Now the wing'd people of the sky shall sing My cheerful anthems to the gladsome spring : A prayer-book, now, shall be my looking-glass, In which I will adore sweet virtue's face. Here dwell no hateful looks, no...
Page 143 - I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being, who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect...
Page 75 - English chronicler who lived at the end of the thirteenth and beginning of the fourteenth century, was a canon-regular of the order of St. Austin at Bridlington in Yorkshire. He translated from the Latin into French verse Herbert Bosenham's (or Boscam's) ' Life of Thomas a Becket,' and compiled, likewise in French verse, a 'Chronicle of England...
Page 259 - I'll be rather. Would the world now adopt me for her heir, Would beauty's queen entitle me " the fair," Fame speak me fortune's minion, could I vie Angels...
Page 19 - Benares, and in other places, wear very thin plates of gold, called ticas, slightly fixed, by way of ornament, between their eye-brows ; and, when they pass through the streets, it is not uncommon for the youthful libertines, who amuse themselves with training...
Page 167 - Indies, belonging to a private company, whose existence had been deemed prejudicial to the commonwealth. What then were the fruits which Britain reaped from this long and desperate war ? A dreadful expense of blood and treasure '', disgrace upon disgrace, an additional load of grievous impositions, and the national debt accumulated to the enormous sum of eighty millions sterling.
Page 224 - I resolve," says Bishop Beveridge, " never to speak of a man's virtues before his face, nor of his faults behind his back.
Page 296 - Sir, I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit, as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.