The Scots Magazine, Том 24

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Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1762
 

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Сторінка 188 - I cannot write much ; God knows how hardly I steal this time when all sleep ; and it is also time for me to separate my thoughts from the world. Beg my dead body, which living was denied you, and either lay it in Sherbourne, or Exeter church by my father and mother. I can say no more ; time and death call me away.
Сторінка 200 - Now I behold the chiefs, in the pride of their former deeds! Their souls are kindled at the battles of old; at the actions of other times.
Сторінка 37 - It is also evident, that the prices do not so much depend on the absolute quantity of commodities and that of money which are in a nation, as on that of the commodities which come or may come to market, and of the money which circulates.
Сторінка 188 - Remember your poor child for his father's sake, who loved you in his happiest estate. I sued for my life, but God knows it was for you and yours that I desired it : for know it, my dear wife, your child is the child of a true man, who in his own respect despiseth death and his misshapen and ugly forms.
Сторінка 187 - First, I send you all the thanks which my heart can conceive, or my words express, for your many travails and cares for me, which though they have not taken effect as you wished, yet my debt to you is not the less ; but pay it I never shall in this world.
Сторінка 188 - Dear wife, I beseech you, for my soul's sake, pay all poor men. When I am dead, no doubt you shall be much sought unto, for the world thinks I was very rich.
Сторінка 317 - O Oscar ! bend the strong in arm : but spare the feeble hand. Be thou a stream of many tides against the foes of thy people ; but like the gale that moves the grass, to those who ask thine aid. So Trenmor lived ; such Trathal was ; and such has Fingal been. My arm was the support of the injured ; the weak rested behind the lightning of my steel.
Сторінка 417 - The island called Newfoundland, with the adjacent islands, shall from this time forward belong of right wholly to Britain; and to that end the town and fortress of Placentia, and whatever other places in the said island are in the possession of the French, shall be yielded and given up, within...
Сторінка 33 - Money is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce; but only the instrument, which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another.
Сторінка 188 - God Almighty, who is goodness itself, the true light and life, keep you and yours, and have mercy upon me, and forgive my persecutors, and false accusers: and send us to meet in his glorious kingdom. My dear wife, farewell; bless my boy: pray for me; and let my true God hold you both in his arms.

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