The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 213

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F. Jefferies, 1862 - Early English newspapers
 

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Page 300 - Hence great part of what has been said in the reviews may be true, and yet the book in its pith and marrow stand. These three theses, chiefly to be drawn from the second and fourth chapters, are : — 1. Political Economy, the Science of Wealth, is the deductive science through which the investigation of natural is connected with that of social phenomena, and thus the way prepared for one universal science. 2. The Laws of Society are different from those of the Individual ; and the Method of Averages,...
Page 548 - We may have our own opinions about slavery; we may be for or against the South; but there is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have made an army; they are making, it appears, a navy; and they have made what is more than either, they have made a nation.4.
Page 127 - And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
Page 395 - Adgefrin, stayed there with them thirty-six days, fully occupied in catechising and baptizing ; during which days, from morning till night, he did 'nothing else but instruct the people resorting from all villages and places, in Christ's saving word ; and when instructed, he washed them with the water of absolution in the river Glen, which is close by.
Page 197 - Division, taking a wagon track through dense woods and precipitous ravines, winding sinuously far around to the left, and striking the river some distance below Turkey Island. Commencing at dusk, the march continued until daylight. The night was dark and fearful. Heavy thunder rolled in turn along each point of the horizon, and dark clouds spread the entire canopy.
Page 197 - ... of the South. The confusion of this herd of men and mules, wagons and wounded, men on horses, men on foot, men by the roadside, men perched on wagons, men searching for water, men famishing for food, men lame and bleeding, men with ghostly eyes, looking out between bloody bandages, that hid the face — turn to some vivid account of the most pitiful part of Napoleon's retreat from Russia, and fill out the picture — the grim, gaunt, bloody picture of war in its most terrible features.
Page 290 - Member of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the said Most Honourable Order.
Page 196 - Huddled among the wagons were 10,000 stragglers — for the credit of the nation be it said that four-fifths of them were wounded, sick, or utterly exhausted, and could not have stirred but for dread of the tobacco warehouses of the South. The confusion of this herd of men and mules, wagons and wounded, men on horses, men on foot, men by the roadside, men perched on wagons, men searching for water, men famishing for food, men lame and bleeding, men with ghostly eyes, looking out between bloody bandages,...
Page 414 - THIS bill entitles the bearer to receive Spanish Milled dollars, or the value thereof in gold or silver, according to the resolutions of the Congress, held at Philadelphia, on the 10th day of May, AD 1775.
Page 419 - Army, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions, of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

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