Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 63, Part 2

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F. Jefferies, 1793 - 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 746 - Sweet drop of pure and pearly light! In thee the rays of Virtue shine ; More calmly clear, more mildly bright, Than any gem that gilds the mine.
Page 698 - I did, sent two or three porters out purposely to search the pit for me. These men went to the miller's house, and made inquiry for me, but on account of the very great rain at the time, they never entered the wood, but cruelly returned to their employers, telling them they had searched the pit, and that I was not to be found.
Page 699 - I was in a sound sleep at the miller's I have been awakened by it in the greatest horrors, still thinking myself in the pit ; so that, in fact, I suffered as much by imagination as from reality. " I continued six weeks at the miller's, when the roads became too bad for the doctors to visit me, so that I was under...
Page 800 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Page 698 - Another of them, though a very honest North Briton, betwixt his surprise and joy, could not help asking me, in the Hibernian style, if I were still living. I told him I was, ' and hearty, too;' and then gave them particular directions how to proceed in getting me out.
Page 965 - They that go down to the sea in ships: and occupy their business in great waters: These men see the works of the Lord: and his wonders in the deep. For at his word the stormy wind ariseth: which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Page 697 - NW of Glasgow,) with a design to gather a few hazelnuts. I think that I could not have been in the wood more than a quarter of an hour, nor have gathered more than ten nuts, before I unfortunately fell into an old coal-pit, exactly seventeen yards deep, which had been made through a solid rock.
Page 887 - Lord Chief Justice Holt told the jury, ' If you are certain that Duke Christopher was born while Thomas Ratford was living, you must find for the plaintiff. — If you believe he was born after Ratford was dead, or that nothing appears what became of him after Duke George married his wife, you must find for the defendant.
Page 631 - ... the soldiers also should live intermixed with the people; no separate camp, no barracks, no inland fortresses should be allowed. And perhaps it might be still better if, by dismissing a stated number, and enlisting others at every renewal of their term, a circulation could be kept up between the army and the people, and the citizen and the soldier be more intimately connected together.
Page 698 - I had a sufficient supply ; and this water was certainly the preservation of my life. " At the bottom of the pit there were great quantities of reptiles, such as frogs, toads, large black snails or slugs, &c.

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