The Scots Magazine, Band 52Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1790 |
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... means to hazard its in- terruption , at length contrived to get me that indulgence . As the meeting was attended with very fingular and ftriking incidents , I could not help noti- cing them with moft particular attention ; and though ...
... means to hazard its in- terruption , at length contrived to get me that indulgence . As the meeting was attended with very fingular and ftriking incidents , I could not help noti- cing them with moft particular attention ; and though ...
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... means of a cock admitted ; where- upon a small gleam of light appeared in the veffel , its inner furface was vifibly covered with moisture , and the water from the tub rofe in it two or three inches , as Mercury would have rifen in a ...
... means of a cock admitted ; where- upon a small gleam of light appeared in the veffel , its inner furface was vifibly covered with moisture , and the water from the tub rofe in it two or three inches , as Mercury would have rifen in a ...
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... means are employed to recal that life , which , in all probability , is only fufpended . Another day informs me , that a man has hanged himself ; and although the body remains warm , yet no means of refufcitation are employed . The ...
... means are employed to recal that life , which , in all probability , is only fufpended . Another day informs me , that a man has hanged himself ; and although the body remains warm , yet no means of refufcitation are employed . The ...
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... means of a much im proved chaff - cutter , one of which may be Teen in the repofitory of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts , & c . in Lon- don . The gentleman here alluded to has made theds in his ground , into which his sheep ...
... means of a much im proved chaff - cutter , one of which may be Teen in the repofitory of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts , & c . in Lon- don . The gentleman here alluded to has made theds in his ground , into which his sheep ...
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... means wherever they go.— One of them called a few days ago at my houfe , who had a beautiful large fnake in a basket , which he made rife up and dance a- bout to the tune of a pipe on which he play- ed . It happened that my out - houses ...
... means wherever they go.— One of them called a few days ago at my houfe , who had a beautiful large fnake in a basket , which he made rife up and dance a- bout to the tune of a pipe on which he play- ed . It happened that my out - houses ...
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Seite 475 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Seite 231 - I have observed among all nations, that the women ornament themselves more than the men ; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest.
Seite 525 - Having heard it remarked that drowned flies were capable of being revived by the rays of the sun, I proposed making the experiment upon these; they were therefore exposed to the sun upon a sieve, which had been employed to strain them out of the wine. In less than three hours, two of them began by degrees to recover life.
Seite 491 - ... no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air.
Seite 536 - ... did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies ; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more.
Seite 424 - ... which had uniformly and without exception followed them all. Fame, riches, and honour had been held out for a series of ages to every individual...
Seite 231 - Sennar, and from thence westward in the latitude and supposed direction of the Niger, I told him, that was the route, by which I was anxious that Africa might, if possible, be explored. He said, he should think himself singularly fortunate to be trusted with the adventure. I asked him when he would set out.
Seite 66 - That some of them have been adopted by him unnecessarily, may perhaps be allowed ; but in general they are evidently an advantage, for without them his stately ideas would be confined and cramped. "He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning.
Seite 164 - ... but, that men might in future be deterred from demanding the trial by ordeal, the appellor was committed for a week.
Seite 312 - The horrid notes my refluent waters daunt, The Echoes groan, the Dryads quit their haunt; Learning, that once to all...