Walker's Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge

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R. Gibson, 1798
 

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الصفحة 407 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
الصفحة 303 - We must, therefore, consider wherein an oak differs from a mass of matter, and that seems to me to be in this ; that the one is only the cohesion of particles of matter any how united ; the other, such a disposition of them, as constitutes the parts of an oak ; and such an organization of those parts, as is fit to receive, and distribute nourishment, so as to continue and frame the wood, bark, and leaves...
الصفحة 223 - Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither hath it entered into the Heart of Man, to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
الصفحة 303 - That being then one plant which has such an organization of parts in one coherent body par.taking of one common life, it continues to be the same plant as long as it partakes of the same life, though that life be communicated to new particles of matter vitally united to the living plant, in a like continued organization conformable to that sort of plants.
الصفحة 352 - Romance Writer Pulls down old histories to build them up finer again, after a new model of his own designing. He takes away all the lights of truth in history to make it the fitter tutoress of life ; for Truth herself has little or nothing to do in the affairs of the world, although all matters of the greatest weight and moment are pretended and done in her name; like a weak Princess, that has only...
الصفحة 322 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
الصفحة 459 - ... made, which surgeons say does happen very frequently The slighter and more inconsistent his opinions are, the faster he holds them, otherwise they would fall asunder of themselves : for opinions that are false ought to be held with more strictness and assurance than those that are true, otherwise they will be apt to betray their owners before they are aware.
الصفحة 87 - Squire, for killing of his game? or Covetous Parson, for his tithes distraining? Or roguish Lawyer, made you lose your little All in a lawsuit? (Have you not read the Rights of Man, by Tom Paine?) Drops of compassion tremble on my eyelids, Ready to fall, as soon as you have told your Pitiful story.
الصفحة 440 - The joys of the table are to him of importance ; they tune his mind to serenity, and his soul partakes in the pleasure which they communicate. He does not eat merely for the sake of eating, but each meal is an hour of daily festivity ; a kind of delight, attended with this advantage in regard to others, that it does not make him poorer but richer. He eats slowly, and has not too much thirst. Too great thirst is always a sign of rapid self-consumption. In general he is serene, loquacious, active,...
الصفحة 352 - ... makes love and lovers too, brings them acquainted, and appoints meetings when and where he pleases, and at the same time betrays them in the height of all their felicity to miserable captivity, or some other horrid calamity; for which he makes them rail at the gods and curse their own innocent stars when he only has done them all the injury; makes men villains...

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