The Scots Magazine, Or, General Repository of Literature, History, and Politics, Volumen58Alex Chapman and, 1796 |
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... miles in length from north to fouth , and Dear 100 broad from east to west . This fine ifland is faid , by fome , to be the Taprobane of the ancients , men- tioned by Strabo and Ovid ; and by others it has been fuppofed to be the Ophir ...
... miles in length from north to fouth , and Dear 100 broad from east to west . This fine ifland is faid , by fome , to be the Taprobane of the ancients , men- tioned by Strabo and Ovid ; and by others it has been fuppofed to be the Ophir ...
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... miles to the eaft of Candy ; and the fifth is Digligineur , fituate between Candy and Batoula . The Dutch East India Company are poffeffed , not only of the whole coaft of Ceylon , but of ten or twelve leagues within land . Their ...
... miles to the eaft of Candy ; and the fifth is Digligineur , fituate between Candy and Batoula . The Dutch East India Company are poffeffed , not only of the whole coaft of Ceylon , but of ten or twelve leagues within land . Their ...
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... miles in length ; the breadth is variable , be- ing in fome places 180 miles . Scot- land contains an area of 27,794 miles . The furface of the country is very irregular , being on the whole moun- tainous : from the report lately made ...
... miles in length ; the breadth is variable , be- ing in fome places 180 miles . Scot- land contains an area of 27,794 miles . The furface of the country is very irregular , being on the whole moun- tainous : from the report lately made ...
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... MILES PETER ANDREWS , ESQ . Spoken by MR LEWIS , THE Drama done , permit us now to say Something about or not about the Play- Good fubject ours ! rare times ! when Specu Lation Engroffes every fubject of the nation . To ferve the ftate ...
... MILES PETER ANDREWS , ESQ . Spoken by MR LEWIS , THE Drama done , permit us now to say Something about or not about the Play- Good fubject ours ! rare times ! when Specu Lation Engroffes every fubject of the nation . To ferve the ftate ...
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... miles to the northward of Trincomale , without oppofition . Neither the garrison of Trincomale nor Ooftenburgh have hitherto given us any moleftation in the laborious fervice in which the troops have been employ ed , of conveying ...
... miles to the northward of Trincomale , without oppofition . Neither the garrison of Trincomale nor Ooftenburgh have hitherto given us any moleftation in the laborious fervice in which the troops have been employ ed , of conveying ...
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Página 514 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Página 532 - The shrieks and groans of the poor expiring wretches were truly dreadful; and my horror was much increased at seeing a young girl, seemingly about eighteen years of age, killed so near me, that when the first spear was stuck into her side she fell...
Página 66 - The opinions he formed of men, upon a slight acquaintance, were frequently erroneous ; but the tendency of his nature inclined him much more to blind partiality, than to ill-founded prejudice. The enlarged views of human affairs, on which his mind habitually dwelt, left him neither time nor inclination to...
Página 513 - ... sixteenth chapters have been reduced, by three successive revisals, from a large volume to their present size ; and they might still be compressed without any loss of facts or sentiments. An opposite fault may be imputed to the concise and superficial narrative of the first reigns from Commodus to Alexander ; a fault of which I have never heard, except from Mr. Hume in his last journey to London. Such an oracle might have been consulted and obeyed with rational devotion ; but I was soon disgusted...
Página 533 - ... and gone home. About this time my brother, Squire Boon, with another adventurer, who came to explore the country shortly after us, was wandering through the forest, determined to find me, if possible, and accidentally found our camp.
Página 453 - I found her learned without pedantry, lively in conversation, pure in sentiment, and elegant in manners; and the first sudden emotion was fortified by the habits and knowledge of a more familiar acquaintance.
Página 452 - I need not blush at recollecting the object of my choice ; and though my love was disappointed of success, I am rather proud that I was once capable of feeling such a pure and exalted sentiment.
Página 512 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins, of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter', that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 436 - How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labors, and whose talk is of bullocks?