The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer, Volume 18James Anderson Mundell and Son, 1722 - Scotland |
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... kind- nefs ; and when he had the misfortune , too soon , to lose this warm friend and kind protector , be bewailed the lofs in strains which , for justnefs of thought , and genuine pathos of exprefsion , will perhaps be allow- ed to ...
... kind- nefs ; and when he had the misfortune , too soon , to lose this warm friend and kind protector , be bewailed the lofs in strains which , for justnefs of thought , and genuine pathos of exprefsion , will perhaps be allow- ed to ...
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... kind . His mind , dwelling on this idea , stret- ched wide , and wide , and wider still . A new creation opened to his view . He saw the future navies of Russia embracing the whole globe . Hissoul was fired at the thought ; nor did he ...
... kind . His mind , dwelling on this idea , stret- ched wide , and wide , and wider still . A new creation opened to his view . He saw the future navies of Russia embracing the whole globe . Hissoul was fired at the thought ; nor did he ...
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... kind that were not formerly felt , and which were not foreseen at the time that the foundation for these abuses were laid . The sums that had been appropriated for chari- table uses before the reformation were immense , and the wealth ...
... kind that were not formerly felt , and which were not foreseen at the time that the foundation for these abuses were laid . The sums that had been appropriated for chari- table uses before the reformation were immense , and the wealth ...
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... kind of seduction , they ra- ther chose to establish a despotic power which should be authorised to wrest from every individual in the nation what ever sums it might think proper to call for , trusting to a few feeble devices which they ...
... kind of seduction , they ra- ther chose to establish a despotic power which should be authorised to wrest from every individual in the nation what ever sums it might think proper to call for , trusting to a few feeble devices which they ...
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... kind of ineffective veto which was given to the late king of France and which proved his ruin . Checks of the same inefficatious nature have been devised as bars to an evil respecting the poor laws , which was foreseen as pofsible tho ...
... kind of ineffective veto which was given to the late king of France and which proved his ruin . Checks of the same inefficatious nature have been devised as bars to an evil respecting the poor laws , which was foreseen as pofsible tho ...
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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...