Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 56, Part 2

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F. Jefferies, 1786 - Early English newspapers
The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.

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Page 537 - ... and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity.
Page 537 - ... distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery, a circumnavigation of charity. Already the benefit of his labour is felt more or less in every country ; I hope he will anticipate his final reward by seeing all its effects fully realized in his own.
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Page 1039 - Jesus shall be mentioned, due and lowly reverence shall be done by all persons present as it hath been accustomed ; testifying by these outward ceremonies and gestures, their inward humility, Christian resolution, and due acknowledgment that the Lord Jesus Christ, the true eternal Son of God, is the only Saviour of the world, in whom alone all the mercies graces and promises of God to mankind, for this life and the life to come, are fully and wholly comprised.
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Page 537 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the...
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Page 1096 - When a man in the dark presses either corner of his eye with his finger, and turns his eye away from his finger, he will see a circle of colours, like those in the feather of a peacock's tail. If the eye and the finger remain quiet, these colours vanish in a second minute of time ; but if the finger be moved with a quavering motion they appear again.
Page 1076 - Louis, by the grace of God King of France and Navarre, to our dear and well-beloved Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, greeting.
Page 687 - Though these were scarcely worth the trouble, considering the short time they were destined to remain there ; for at the end of a few months one of the pope's chamberlains arrived, who brought the archbishop a cardinal's cap, with an epistle conceived in the most respectful terms, in which his holiness invited him to assist, by his counsel, in the government of the Christian world; permitting him at the same time to dispose of his mitre in favour of whom he pleased.

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