The Monthly Magazine, Bindi 18

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John Aikin, Benson Earle Hill
R. Phillips, 1804
 

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Síða 102 - Do you remember how often you have promised yourself, the following morning, a walk in the grove of Boulogne, in the Garden de la Muette, or in your own garden, and have violated your promise, alleging at one time it was too cold, at another too warm, too windy, too moist, or what else you pleased; when in truth it was too nothing but your insuperable love of ease?
Síða 263 - Are they industrious?" he would enquire; when being answered in the affirmative, he would add, " Tell them I have been deceived already, and never will advance a sixpence by way of loan, but I will give them the sum they want; and if ever I hear they make known the circumstance, I will cut them off with a shilling.
Síða 199 - Other modes of obtaining a common medium, such as that of inducing or even compelling the Bank of Ireland to give Bank of England Notes in exchange for their own on demand, or to make their own exchangeable for them in London, or to give Bills of Exchange on London for them, have been suggested; and there is no doubt any of them would have the effect of rectifying the Exchange.
Síða 387 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Síða 197 - Elfe what fhall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rife not at all ? Why are they then baptized for the dead...
Síða 101 - Wrapt in the speculations of this wretched game, you destroy your constitution. What can be expected from such a course of living but a body replete with stagnant...
Síða 102 - ... a proper use of yours. Would you know how they forward the circulation of your fluids, in the very action of transporting you from place to place ; observe when you walk, that all your weight is alternately thrown from one leg to the other ; this occasions a great pressure on the vessels of the...
Síða 140 - I cannot but envy your being among the Alps, where you may see frost and snow in the dog-days : we are here quite burnt up, and are at least ten degrees nearer the sun than when you left us. I am very well satisfied that it was in August that Virgil wrote his " 0, qui me gelidis sub montibus Haemi !
Síða 103 - After a most fatiguing day, these people have to trudge a mile or two to their smoky huts.
Síða 102 - ... round trotting ; but if you loll in a carriage, such as you have mentioned, you may travel all day, and gladly enter the last inn to warm your feet by a fire.

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