The Gentleman's Magazine, Volumen 39

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E. Cave, jun. at St John's Gate, 1907
The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.

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Página 12 - For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity. Nevertheless, through envy of the devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do find it.
Página 87 - At that age it is natural for them to be more captivated with what is brilliant than with what is solid, and to prefer splendid negligence to painful and humiliating exactness.
Página 12 - Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Página 88 - ... rather of what they think the figure ought to be, than of what it appears. I have thought this the obstacle that has stopped the progress of many young men of real genius ; and I very much doubt whether a habit of drawing correctly what we see will not give a proportionable power of drawing correctly what we imagine.
Página 433 - That these resolutions be entered by the townclerk in the record books of this city, as part of the proceedings of the Livery at the election of a Lord Mayor of this city for the year 1770 ; and that a copy of these resolutions, signed by the sheriffs, be delivered to each of our representatives in parliament.
Página 26 - ... out of a clear, thin, and free air, he came into the thick air of London; and after a constant, plain, and homely country diet, he was taken into a splendid family, where he fed high, and drank plentifully of the best wines, whereupon the natural functions of the parts of his body were overcharged, his lungs obstructed, and the habit of...
Página 57 - The situation of this country is alarming enough to rouse the attention of every man who pretends to a concern for the public welfare.
Página 502 - When you affectedly renounced the name of Englishman, believe me, Sir, you were persuaded to pay a very ill-judged compliment to one part of your subjects, at the expense of another. While the natives of Scotland are not in actual rebellion, they are undoubtedly entitled to protection; nor do I mean to condemn the policy of giving some encouragement to the novelty of their affections for the house of Hanover.
Página 78 - An Argument, proving, that according to the Covenant of Eternal Life, revealed in the Scriptures, Man may be translated from hence into that Eternal Life, without passing through Death, although the Human Nature of Christ himself could not be thus translated till he had passed through Death ; 1703.
Página 57 - THE submission of a free people to the executive authority of government, is no more than a compliance with laws which they themselves have enacted.

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