Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 61, Part 1

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F. Jefferies, 1791 - 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 228 - No foot of land do I possess ; No cottage in this wilderness: A poor way-faring man, I lodge awhile in tents below, Or gladly wander to and fro, Till I my Canaan gain.
Page 467 - ... that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical ; that even the forcing him to support this or that teacher, of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern...
Page 92 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Page 150 - I was then but a young girl. Having heard much talk about the man, I looked at him with wonder : being ordered to take a pan of coals and air his bed, I could not, during the operation, forbear peeping over my shoulder several times to observe this extraordinary person, who was seated at the far side of the room untying his garters. Having aired the bed, I went out, and shutting the door after me, stopped and peeped through the keyhole...
Page 275 - ... bull is tortured by every mode which malice can invent, for no offence but that he is gentle, and unwilling to aflail his diabolical tormentors.
Page 220 - I wiflied to fend an officer to England who could give fuch information as cannot be conveyed by letters, and the detachment was now divided, I replaced the officer who was...
Page 239 - Miscellaneous Tracts, by the late William Bowyer, and several of! his learned Friends ; including Letters on literary Subjects, by Mr. Markland, Mr. Clarke, &c. &c. collected and illustrated with occasional Notes by John Nichols.
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Page 218 - The captain's guard, which until lately did duty at Rofe Hill, is now reduced to a lieutenant and twelve privates, and intended merely as a guard to the...
Page 218 - ... of water, from one to three or four miles, they will have nothing to apprehend from the natives, who avoid thofe parts we moft frequent, and always retire at the fight of two or tha-e people who are armed.

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