The Gentleman's Magazine, Band 3

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F. Jefferies, 1733
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 149 - Seek to be good, but aim not to be great: A woman's noblest station is retreat; Her fairest virtues fly from public sight, Domestic worth, that shuns too strong a light.
Seite 96 - To be another, in this general frame; Just as absurd, to mourn the tasks or pains The great Directing Mind of all ordains. All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul...
Seite 294 - Nation confented to pay in fome manner a double Tax, in order to avoid the long and uncertain Continuance of fuch grievous and dangerous Impofitions ; and according to the firft Defign many of them would have been very near the Expiration of their Term at this Hour. The Wifdom of Parliament, indeed, thought fit afterwards to throw thefe Taxes, and the Method of difcharging the Publick Debts, into another Form, which...
Seite 51 - Interspers'd with the history of the plants, the characters of each genus, and the names of all the particular species, in Latin and English: and an explanation of all the terms used in botany and gardening.
Seite 149 - Women, like princes, find few real friends : All who approach them their own ends pursue; Lovers and ministers are seldom true. Hence oft...
Seite 294 - Fund were not to be applied plied to the Difcharge of the Publick Debts, it would be much more for the Eafe of Trade and Advantage of the Nation, that fome of thofe grievous Taxes out of which it arifes fhould ceafe, than that they fhould be continued to fupply the current Service at Four per Cent.
Seite 149 - Too ftrong for feeble woman to fuftain ; Of thofe who claim it, more than half have none, And half of thofe who have it, are undone. Be...
Seite 569 - ... already subjected great numbers of the people of this nation to the arbitrary laws of excise ; and this scheme is...
Seite 96 - Lives thro' all life, extends thro' all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unfpent; Breathes in our foul, informs our mortal part, As full, as...
Seite 149 - For this the toilet every thought employs, Hence all the toils of drefs, and all the joys : For this, hands, lips, and eyes are put to fchool, And each...

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