The North British Review, Volumen7W.P. Kennedy, 1847 |
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... heir , and present a like account of the entire gain to society were disease and death for ever abolished ? The answer to this is obvious . Can any one pretend that the fever and mortality bills of Glasgow present the lowest amount of ...
... heir , and present a like account of the entire gain to society were disease and death for ever abolished ? The answer to this is obvious . Can any one pretend that the fever and mortality bills of Glasgow present the lowest amount of ...
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... heirs . The cousin died in the year 1696 , and then began a long struggle , which occupied about thirty years , between Lovat on the one hand , and the heiress and her friends on the other , in regard to the succession . Her uncle , the ...
... heirs . The cousin died in the year 1696 , and then began a long struggle , which occupied about thirty years , between Lovat on the one hand , and the heiress and her friends on the other , in regard to the succession . Her uncle , the ...
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... heir - male of my family , but weakly and falsely , for little private interest and views , abandon your duty to ... heirs - male , they will certainly in less than an age , chase you all by slight and might , as well gentlemen as ...
... heir - male of my family , but weakly and falsely , for little private interest and views , abandon your duty to ... heirs - male , they will certainly in less than an age , chase you all by slight and might , as well gentlemen as ...
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... , the proprietor of the estate of Culloden in Inverness - shire . He was born in 1685 - of a family which had , by the economy of successive His Marriage . 93 heirs , risen to considerable opulence 92 Duncan Forbes .
... , the proprietor of the estate of Culloden in Inverness - shire . He was born in 1685 - of a family which had , by the economy of successive His Marriage . 93 heirs , risen to considerable opulence 92 Duncan Forbes .
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His Marriage . 93 heirs , risen to considerable opulence . They were of high Presbyte- rian principles , and partook largely of the persecutions to which that national party had been exposed . After the Revolution , the estates of ...
His Marriage . 93 heirs , risen to considerable opulence . They were of high Presbyte- rian principles , and partook largely of the persecutions to which that national party had been exposed . After the Revolution , the estates of ...
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Página 21 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness : and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness ; and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn : they shout for joy, they also sing.
Página 15 - GOD from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass : yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
Página 25 - For every kind of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of things in the sea is tamed, and hath been tamed, of mankind; but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Página 35 - God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah. 6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
Página v - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For, while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further, but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Página 120 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Página 147 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
Página 109 - And while the moralist, who is holding forth on the cover (an accurate portrait of your humble servant) , professes to wear neither gown nor bands, but only the very same long-eared livery in which his congregation is arrayed...
Página 486 - ... law, which was the business I designed to follow, appeared nauseous to me, and I could think of no other way of pushing my fortune in the world but that of a scholar and philosopher. I was infinitely happy 'in this course of life for some months, till at last, about the beginning of September, 1729, all my ardour seemed in a moment to be extinguished, and I could no longer raise my mind to that pitch which formerly gave me such excessive pleasure.