The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, Том 40

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R. Baldwin, 1771

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Стр. 63 - And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord: and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty ; but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
Стр. 138 - ... that he was chosen because he was incapable. If he had been capable, he had not been chosen, for they did not want him to serve the office.
Стр. 84 - A clear, unblemished character, comprehends not only the integrity that will not offer, but the spirit that will not submit to, an injury; and whether it belongs to an individual or to a community, it is the foundation of peace, of independence, and of safety. Private credit is wealth ; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.
Стр. 36 - He had an excellent understanding, but was not confident enough of it ; which made him oftentimes change his own opinion for a worse, and follow the advice of men that did not judge so well as himself.
Стр. 295 - But who the melodies of morn can tell ? The wild brook babbling down the mountain side ; The lowing herd ; the sheepfold's simple bell; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley...
Стр. 202 - Highlanders, whom more favage nations called favage, carried, in the outward expreffion of their manners, the politenefs of courts without their vices, and, in their bofoms, the high point of honour without its follies. In countries where the furface is rugged, and the climate uncertain, there is little room for the ufe of the plough ; and where no coal is to be found, and few provifions can beraifed, there is ftill lefs for that of the anvil and fhuttle. As the Highlanders were...
Стр. 135 - ... it only amounts to this, that he cannot plead in excuse what, when pleaded, is no excuse; but there is not in this the shadow of an objection to his pleading what is an excuse — pleading a legal disqualification. If he is nominated to be a justice of the peace, he may say, "I cannot be a justice of the peace, for I have not a hundred pounds a year.
Стр. 202 - Thus the meaneft of the clan, knowing himfelf to be as well born as the head of it, revered in his chieftain his own honour ; loved in his clan his own blood ; complained not of the difference of ftation into which fortune had thrown him, and...
Стр. 51 - Tis the woof of victory. Ere the ruddy sun be set, Pikes must shiver, javelins sing, Blade with clattering buckler meet. Hauberk crash, and helmet ring. (Weave the crimson web of war) Let us go, and let us fly, Where our friends the conflict share, Where they triumph, where they die. As the paths of fate we tread, Wading through th' ensanguined field : Gondula, and Geira, spread O'er the youthful king your shield.
Стр. 202 - The castle of the chieftain was a kind of palace to which every man of his tribe was made welcome, and where he was entertained according to his station in time of peace, and to which all flocked at the sound of war.

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