Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volume 92Pub. for J. Hinton., 1793 |
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... several well cleared and delightful fpots upon it . The foil is a black kind of clay , and marthy . It produces in great abund- ance and with little care , moft of the tropical fruits , as pine - apples , plan- tains , papayas , cocoa ...
... several well cleared and delightful fpots upon it . The foil is a black kind of clay , and marthy . It produces in great abund- ance and with little care , moft of the tropical fruits , as pine - apples , plan- tains , papayas , cocoa ...
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... Several of them had never been elected , and none of them for the purpose . From the time of William , a fpecies of government arofe , iffuing out of this coalition Bill of Rights ( and more fo , fince the corruption introduced at the ...
... Several of them had never been elected , and none of them for the purpose . From the time of William , a fpecies of government arofe , iffuing out of this coalition Bill of Rights ( and more fo , fince the corruption introduced at the ...
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... Several debates took place , on some sub- fequent days , concerning the competency of the convention to decide the grand question of the guilt or innocence of the ci - devant king , and the neceffity of re- ferring it to the people in ...
... Several debates took place , on some sub- fequent days , concerning the competency of the convention to decide the grand question of the guilt or innocence of the ci - devant king , and the neceffity of re- ferring it to the people in ...
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... Several members then ob- ferved , that as the convention wifhed to exercise the functions of judges , they ought to adopt the form generally used , of not condemning an accused person but by a majority of two - thirds of the votes . To ...
... Several members then ob- ferved , that as the convention wifhed to exercise the functions of judges , they ought to adopt the form generally used , of not condemning an accused person but by a majority of two - thirds of the votes . To ...
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... Several members , when their names were called over , gave explanations of the meaning of the expref- fions they employed in delivering their vote ; but most of them were unfavourable to the accused . A long difcuffion enfued , the ...
... Several members , when their names were called over , gave explanations of the meaning of the expref- fions they employed in delivering their vote ; but most of them were unfavourable to the accused . A long difcuffion enfued , the ...
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Page 249 - That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom ; Knock there ; and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault ; if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life.
Page 410 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 267 - It was even by some of those qualities, which we are now apt to blame, that he was fitted for accomplishing the great work which he undertook.
Page 266 - ... shine so conspicuously in every part of his behaviour, that even his enemies must allow him to have possessed them in an eminent degree. To...
Page 8 - Thy mimic soul, O Nymph endear'd, Can well recall what then it heard. Where is thy native simple heart Devote to Virtue, Fancy, Art? Arise, as in that elder time, Warm, energic, chaste, sublime!
Page 345 - Reason thus with life : If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep. A breath thou art (Servile to all the skyey influences) That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, Hourly afflict.
Page 266 - But these indecencies, of which Luther was guilty, must not be imputed wholly to the violence of his temper. They ought to be charged in part on the manners of the age. Among a rude people, unacquainted with...
Page 266 - These, however, were of such a nature, that they cannot be imputed to malevolence or corruption of heart, but seem to have taken their rise from the same source with many of his virtues. His mind, forcible and vehement in all its operations, roused by...
Page 47 - What is it, but a bargain, which the parts of the government made with each other to divide powers, profits, and privileges? You shall have so much, and I will have the rest; and with respect to the nation, it said, for your share, YOU shall have the right of petitioning.
Page 469 - I have given instructions to those officers to whom it belongs to cause prosecutions to be instituted against all persons who shall, within the cognizance of the Courts of the United States, violate the law of nations with respect to the powers at War or any of them.