Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 53

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F. Jefferies, 1783 - Early English newspapers
 

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Page 150 - In case it should so happen, that any place or territory, belonging to Great Britain or to the United States, should...
Page 90 - On the Poetry of the Galic, or Celtic, nations as far back as it can be traced.— On that of the Goths, its introduction into these islands by the Saxons and Danes, and its duration. — On the Origin of Rhyme among the Franks, the Saxons, and Provencaux.
Page 150 - It is agreed that creditors on either side, shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money, of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Page 380 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was, and is, to hold, as it were, the mirror up to nature...
Page 150 - United States : and that persons of any other description shall have free liberty to go to any part or parts of any of the thirteen United States , and therein to remain twelve months unmolested in their endeavours to obtain the restitution of such of their estates, rights and properties as may have been confiscated...
Page 149 - Mississippi until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude; south, by a line to be drawn due east from the determination of the line last mentioned in the latitude of thirty.one degrees north of the equator, to the middle of the river...
Page 3 - Some proofs have lately been given of public spirit in private men, which would do honour to any age, and any country. " Having manifested to the whole world, by the...
Page 77 - I found a bag of bread, a small ham, a single piece of pork, two quart bottles of water, and a few French cordials.
Page 149 - Woods ; thence through the said lake to the most north-western point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to the river Mississippi ; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said river Mississippi until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude...
Page 3 - MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN: Since the close of the last session, I have employed my whole time in the care and attention which the important and critical conjuncture of public affairs required of me. I lost no time in giving the necessary orders to prohibit the further prosecution of offensive war upon the continent of North America...

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