The Sentimental and Masonic Magazine, Volume 3

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J. Jones., 1793
 

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Page 312 - ... the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways and to fear him. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of oil olive and honey...
Page 212 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 212 - Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damiens' bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own.
Page 206 - I very composedly, by way of amusement, combed my wig on my knee, humming a tune, and thinking of Archer in the
Page 342 - Sir, I have made bold in my will with your name for executor, and I hope that you will not take it ill. I have joined two others with you, who will take from you the trouble.
Page 417 - To all the arguments which are brought to evince the impracticability of success in manufacturing establishments in the United States, it might have been a sufficient answer to have referred to the experience of what has been already done. It is certain that several important branches have grown up and flourished, with a rapidity which surprises, affording an encouraging assurance of success in future attempts.
Page 207 - I never think of it but the tear of gratitude starts from my eye. Every morning while I was in the pit I tied a knot in the corner of my handkerchief...
Page 37 - Review, he read moft new publications; and fo eager was he ufually in the perufal, that he laid them upon the table even when he was at dinner, occafionally looking into them, and marking thofe parts with a pencil, which he afterwards extracted or commented upon. He was accuftomed to make his remarks on fmall pieces of paper, of different fizes, which he placed in order, and faftened together; a method he learned from Leibnitz.
Page 387 - The condition of this place hath been so dreadful, that I persuade myself it exceeded all history and example. I may truly say, our town was become a Golgotha, the place of skulls ; and, had there not been a small remnant of us left, we had been as Sodom, and like unto Gomorrah.
Page 342 - I have as much love as honour for you, and I will bend my feeble knees to the God of heaven, that you, my dear lady, and your children...

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