Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Band 69,Teil 2

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F. Jefferies, 1799
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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Seite 551 - In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place.
Seite 773 - We have run out a ravelin on each side of the enemy's nearest approach, in which the marines of the Tigre and Theseus have worked under a heavy and incessant fire from the enemy, in a way that commands the admiration and gratitude of the Turks, as it is evident the flanking fire produced from them contributed much to save the place yesterday.
Seite 773 - ... hours heavy cannonade from thirty pieces of artillery brought from Jaffa, made a fourth attempt to mount the breach, now much widened, but were repulsed with loss.
Seite 693 - All but one great toe was removed by the seventeenth ; and, on removing the sloughs from the heels, the bone was bare in many places ; and wherever the mortification had taken place, was one large sore, very tender. The sores were much diminished, and the great toe taken off by the end of March, and an unusual sleepiness came on. By April...
Seite 669 - Let your light fo fhine before men, that they may fee your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Seite 784 - On the change of administration in 1782, lord Howe was raised to the dignity of a viscount of Great Britain, having been previously advanced to the rank of admiral of the blue. He was then appointed to command the fleet fitted out for the relief of Gibraltar ; and he fulfilled the important objects of this expedition.
Seite 955 - I therefore deliver over to you the fleet which I commanded. From this...
Seite 773 - Rime with the pikemen, and proceeded to the bottom of it, where he verified its direction, and destroyed all that could be dcllroycd in its then ftate, by pulling down the fupporters.
Seite 623 - A fun beam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. And fee the rivers how they run...
Seite 954 - Diep, and continued our courfe along the Texel, in the channel that leads to the Vleiter, the Dutch fquadron lying at anchor in a line at the Red Buoy in the eaftíbtith-eaíl courfe.

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