The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 207A. Dodd and A. Smith, 1859 - 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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... passed pro- hibiting any one making or wearing shoes or boots with pikes exceeding two inches ! But in that reign , as if to shew their contempt of the law , nobles , rich men , and even burghers , wore shoes in which the points were ...
... passed pro- hibiting any one making or wearing shoes or boots with pikes exceeding two inches ! But in that reign , as if to shew their contempt of the law , nobles , rich men , and even burghers , wore shoes in which the points were ...
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... passed over as no very brilliant commencement of a memorable career . But it was the prelude to his being Governor - General of India , whither he went ( with the Garter ) in 1786 , and conducted the intricate affairs of that vast ...
... passed over as no very brilliant commencement of a memorable career . But it was the prelude to his being Governor - General of India , whither he went ( with the Garter ) in 1786 , and conducted the intricate affairs of that vast ...
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... passed over without loss to the individual whose distinguished merits are confessed by common consent , though , as with all who have filled eminent stations in directing great events , amenable to difference of opinion and censure from ...
... passed over without loss to the individual whose distinguished merits are confessed by common consent , though , as with all who have filled eminent stations in directing great events , amenable to difference of opinion and censure from ...
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... passing connection of the relative dates ; but our limits tell us it must be brief . Lord Cornwallis is instructed that it will be most ex- pedient to listen to what the King may say , and not to say anything direct on our part ...
... passing connection of the relative dates ; but our limits tell us it must be brief . Lord Cornwallis is instructed that it will be most ex- pedient to listen to what the King may say , and not to say anything direct on our part ...
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... passed into the hands of the editor . We are The frequency of these in other places deteriorate the value of the crippled in- formation . The sacrifice was no doubt thought necessary , but a century hence there would be no need of ...
... passed into the hands of the editor . We are The frequency of these in other places deteriorate the value of the crippled in- formation . The sacrifice was no doubt thought necessary , but a century hence there would be no need of ...
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Page 333 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle rendered you in music. Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose Familiar as his garter...
Page 215 - Tobacco : Its History and Associations ; with an Account of the Plant and its Manufacture, and its Modes of Use in all Ages and Countries. By F. W. FAIRHOLT, FSA With Coloured Frontispiece and upwards of 100 Illustrations by the Author.
Page 160 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 16 - That all women of whatever age, rank, profession or degree, whether virgins, maids or widows, that shall from and after such Act impose upon, seduce, and betray into matrimony any of his Majesty's subjects by the...
Page 309 - Museum of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland during their annual meeting, held in Edinburgh, July 1856...
Page 111 - ... the peerage would be but as dust in the balance against a preponderating democracy. They mean democracy, and nothing else. And, give them but a House of Commons constructed on their own principles, — the peerage and the throne may exist for a day, but may be swept from the face of the earth by the first angry vote of such a House of Conations.
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Page 34 - ... Those from the drift are, on the contrary, never ground, and are exclusively of flint. They have, indeed, every appearance of having been fabricated by another race of men, who, from the fact that the Celtic stone weapons have been found in the superficial soil above the drift containing these ruder weapons, as well as from other considerations, must have inhabited this region of the globe at a period anterior to its so-called Celtic occupation.
Page 218 - The Smoaking Age, or, the man in the mist : — with the life and death of Tobacco.
Page 123 - The axe then did at one blow cut off more learning than was in the heads of all the surviving nobility.