The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 3

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James Potts, 1773
 

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Page 324 - That all acquisitions made under the influence of a military force, or by treaty with foreign Princes, do of right belong to the State.
Page 509 - Banks saw this coffer, the aperture at the end was stopped with a piece of cloth, which, lest he should give offence, he left untouched ; probably there was then something within, but now the cloth was taken away, and, upon looking into it, it was found empty. The general resemblance between this repository and the Ark of the Lord among the Jews is remarkable ; but it is still more remarkable, that upon inquiring of the boy what it was called, he said, Ewharre no Eatua, the house of the God : he...
Page 147 - ... vast rock of white marble, at the foot of which the river ran a vast depth down, and not to be descended on that side ; the little waves still dashing and washing the foot of this rock, made the softest murmurs and purlings in the world ; and the opposite bank was...
Page 531 - Canft thou not minifter to a mind difeas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted forrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with fome fweet oblivious antidote, Cleanfe the ftuff'd bofom of that perilous ftuff. Which weighs upon the heart ? DOCT.
Page 471 - The fame difregard to the eftablifhed rights of mankind are fhewn in the Auftrian fpecifications, by which no alternative is allowed to thofe who do not chufe to accept of the terms propofed, nor are they even informed, whether they are to be governed by their own laws, or by any other, the will of the count de Pergen being the only code that is at prefent communicated to them. The emprefs of Ruffia, indeed, allows three months, to thofe who are not willing to fubmit to her government, to difpofe...
Page 396 - ... when they are dry, interwoven with each other into a kind of stuff between netting and cloth, with all the ends, which are eight or nine inches long, hanging out on the upper side, like the shag or thrumb mats which we sometimes see lying in a passage. Of this cloth, if cloth it may be called, two pieces...
Page 233 - Preserve an inviolable regard for religion ; maintain the Catholic faith in its purity; let the laws of...
Page 417 - The present violent dismemberment and partition of Poland, without the pretence of war, or even the colour of right, is to be considered as the first very great breach in the modern political system of Europe.
Page 236 - Francis's bounty, adopted their encomiums, and even added to them. The appellation of Father of Letters bestowed upon Francis, hath rendered his memory sacred among historians ; and they seem to have regarded it as a sort of impiety to uncover his infirmities, or to point out his defects.
Page 396 - Europe. The women were not impregnable ; but the terms and manner of compliance were as decent as those in marriage among us, and according to their notions, the agreement was as innocent.

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