The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer, Volume 18James Anderson Mundell and Son, 1722 - Scotland |
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... attempts may be ex- pected there to be made , than in countries which are more favourably circumstanced . There , however , it as necefsarily happens There are few instances of young persons in Scot- land setting out in life with an ...
... attempts may be ex- pected there to be made , than in countries which are more favourably circumstanced . There , however , it as necefsarily happens There are few instances of young persons in Scot- land setting out in life with an ...
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... attempts to join the eastern to the western , world . From whence in so fhort a time has the power and fame of Rufsian fleets extended itself over so many seas ? from whence the materials ? from whence the kill ? from whence the ...
... attempts to join the eastern to the western , world . From whence in so fhort a time has the power and fame of Rufsian fleets extended itself over so many seas ? from whence the materials ? from whence the kill ? from whence the ...
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... attempted to prevent this alarming adition if not to annihilate the present glaring miscon- duct in the management of the poor . " Such has been the language of thirking men in parliament for near a century backwards . And many have ...
... attempted to prevent this alarming adition if not to annihilate the present glaring miscon- duct in the management of the poor . " Such has been the language of thirking men in parliament for near a century backwards . And many have ...
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... attempt was made to establish an involuntary poors rate in that parish . A poors rate was actually imposed , accor- ding to forms that some inattentive reasoners believed tó be legal , to the amount of 800l . per annum . The demand from ...
... attempt was made to establish an involuntary poors rate in that parish . A poors rate was actually imposed , accor- ding to forms that some inattentive reasoners believed tó be legal , to the amount of 800l . per annum . The demand from ...
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... attempted , at the time , to be car- ried into effect . Of these laws I fhall afterwards have occasion to speak more fully ; it is here only necef- sary to say that they were all so absurd , as to have been evidently neglected from the ...
... attempted , at the time , to be car- ried into effect . Of these laws I fhall afterwards have occasion to speak more fully ; it is here only necef- sary to say that they were all so absurd , as to have been evidently neglected from the ...
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Page 330 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained ; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Page 185 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He Who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head; How...
Page 186 - Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! And oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle. O Thou! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd thro...
Page 184 - The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high; Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of heaven's avenging ire; Or, Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.
Page 184 - Is there, in human form, that bears a heart — A wretch ! a villain ! lost to love and truth ! That can, with studied, sly, ensnaring art, Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth...
Page 185 - And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide; But, chiefly, in their hearts with Grace Divine preside.
Page 112 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Page 184 - Scotia's food : The soupe their only hawkie does afford, That 'yont the hallan snugly chows her cood ; The dame brings forth in complimental mood, To grace the lad, her weel-hain'd kebbuck, fell ; An' aft he's prest, an' aft he ca's it guid ; The frugal wifie, garrulous, will tell, How 'twas a towmond auld, sin' lint was i
Page 112 - She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
Page 183 - Jenny sees the visit's no ill ta'en ; The father cracks of horses, pleughs, and kye. The youngster's artless heart o'erflows wi...