The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 103,Deel 2;Volume 154

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F. Jefferies, 1833
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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Pagina 493 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Pagina 310 - ... below zero, immediately took the consistency of ice ; and thus we actually became the inhabitants of an iceberg during one of the most severe winters hitherto recorded ; our sufferings, aggravated by want of bedding, clothing, and animal food, need not be dwelt upon. Mr. C. Thomas, the carpenter, was the only man who perished at this beach, but three others, besides one who had lost his foot, were reduced to the last stage of debility, and only 13 of our number were able to carry provisions in...
Pagina 424 - THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED. STRONGLY it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows, Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the Ocean.
Pagina 149 - NICOLAS.-THE CHRONOLOGY OF HISTORY. Containing Tables, Calculations, and Statements indispensable for ascertaining the Dates of Historical Events, and of Public and Private Documents, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time.
Pagina 349 - ... natives of India, and its future government, would be determined for many years to come, and an appeal to the King in Council, against the abolition of the practice of burning widows, was to be heard before the Privy Council ; and his Majesty the Emperor of Delhi had likewise commissioned me to bring before the authorities in England, certain encroachments on his rights by the East India Company. I accordingly arrived in England in April, 1831.
Pagina 349 - The consequence of my long and uninterrupted researches into religious truth has been that I have found the doctrines of Christ more conducive to moral principles and better adapted for the use of rational beings, than any others which have come to my knowledge...
Pagina 317 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Pagina 69 - Bruce then proposed that the Bill be read a third time that day six months.
Pagina 499 - In my form of repeating it I cannot do him justice. " Desiring to hear something of Burke's delivery from so high a source, I asked him about it. . ' It was execrable,
Pagina 493 - That the Globe, Wherein (quoth he) reigns a whole world of vice, Had been consum'd ; the Phoenix burnt to ashes ; The Fortune whipt for a blind * * * ; Black-fryers He wonders how it scap'd demolishing I...

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