The Lady's Magazine, Or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement, Part 1Robinson and Roberts, 1794 |
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... leaft in her good vio was pleafed with his fuccefs , and graces , who remembered the old therefore constantly gave his atten- rule of wooing a widow , was re- dance at one church or other , where folved to put it in practice ; and ac ...
... leaft in her good vio was pleafed with his fuccefs , and graces , who remembered the old therefore constantly gave his atten- rule of wooing a widow , was re- dance at one church or other , where folved to put it in practice ; and ac ...
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... leaft in a higher degree than any other peo- ple ; and every Frenchman wished to be thought loyal , as every man wishes to be thought generous or brave . They seemed even to con- fider it as a virtue , which ought to be cherished in the ...
... leaft in a higher degree than any other peo- ple ; and every Frenchman wished to be thought loyal , as every man wishes to be thought generous or brave . They seemed even to con- fider it as a virtue , which ought to be cherished in the ...
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... leaft weight with her . All the while I am reafoning with her , laying credit and fhame , poverty and plenty be- fore her , the is no more affected than if I was finging her a ballad , but flands ftaring me in the face with a broad ...
... leaft weight with her . All the while I am reafoning with her , laying credit and fhame , poverty and plenty be- fore her , the is no more affected than if I was finging her a ballad , but flands ftaring me in the face with a broad ...
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... leaft by threats , or any thing like defiance , Juftice is held facred all over the country . The monarch never in- jures any of his neighbours ; and no inftance is to be found in hiftory , ancient or modern , of his having thewn an ...
... leaft by threats , or any thing like defiance , Juftice is held facred all over the country . The monarch never in- jures any of his neighbours ; and no inftance is to be found in hiftory , ancient or modern , of his having thewn an ...
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... leaft oppofition fhould be made . This anecdote may be feen in Kemp- fer's Defcription of Japan , Appen - able generals ? " replied the king . dix , p . 56 . Any one that , from what has been faid above , has formed to himself a notion ...
... leaft oppofition fhould be made . This anecdote may be feen in Kemp- fer's Defcription of Japan , Appen - able generals ? " replied the king . dix , p . 56 . Any one that , from what has been faid above , has formed to himself a notion ...
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Page 716 - His talents of every kind, powerful from nature, and not meanly cultivated by letters, his social virtues in all the relations and all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great and unparalleled variety of agreeable societies, which will be dissipated by his death. He had too much merit not to excite some jealousy, too much innocence to provoke any enmity.
Page 250 - 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.
Page 263 - ... puppies. I believe but few of a brood live to the years of full growth and magnitude, as the old feed on the young as long as they can make prey of them. The alligator, when full grown, is a very large and terrible creature, and of prodigious strength, activity, and swiftness in the water.
Page 230 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Page 578 - Nature, in zeal for human amity, Denies or damps an undivided joy. Joy is an import; joy is an exchange; Joy flies monopolists; it calls for two: Rich fruit!
Page 284 - The gore congeal'd was clotter'd in his hair: With eyes half clos'd and gaping mouth he lay, And grim, as when he breath'd his sullen soul away.
Page 29 - ... of being pink-eyed. In other respects their eyes are dark-brown, or rather black, and the eyelids form in the great angle of the eye a deep furrow, which makes the Japanese look as if they were sharp-sighted and discriminates them from other nations. The eyebrows are also placed somewhat higher.
Page 433 - So much for the first precept. II. Bring thy children up in learning and obedience, yet without outward austerity. Praise them openly, reprehend them secretly. Give them good countenance, and convenient maintenance, according to thy ability...
Page 433 - Beware thou spend not above three of four parts of thy revenues ; nor above a third part of that in thy house. For the other two parts will do no more than defray thy extraordinaries, which always surmount the ordinary by much ; otherwise thou shalt live like a rich beggar, in continual want.
Page 263 - ... ascending from his nostrils like smoke. At other times, when swollen to an extent ready to burst, his head and tail lifted up, he spins or twirls round on the surface of the water.