The Stockton bee: or, Monthly miscellany1793 |
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... precious gift , ( bellow'd at birth , To form our happinets on earth ) Involv'd in thee we bid defiance To all the rocks and crags of fcience ; In thy fafe port fecure we fleep , While Learning B 3 In JANUARY , 1793. 17.
... precious gift , ( bellow'd at birth , To form our happinets on earth ) Involv'd in thee we bid defiance To all the rocks and crags of fcience ; In thy fafe port fecure we fleep , While Learning B 3 In JANUARY , 1793. 17.
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... form a straw ; Nor Newton , more than mortals wife , Who fathom d earth , and feas , and fkies . Could ever truly underland The effence of one grain of fand , WINTER WINTER . ( Imitated from HORACE . Book I. Ode 18 The STOCKTON BEE.
... form a straw ; Nor Newton , more than mortals wife , Who fathom d earth , and feas , and fkies . Could ever truly underland The effence of one grain of fand , WINTER WINTER . ( Imitated from HORACE . Book I. Ode 18 The STOCKTON BEE.
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... Earth , To mortal aid I come , But ere I can receive my birth , I many shapes affume . Paffive my nature , but I'm made As active as the roe ; And oftentimes , with equal fpeed , Thro ' flow'ry lawns I go . When wicked men their wealth ...
... Earth , To mortal aid I come , But ere I can receive my birth , I many shapes affume . Paffive my nature , but I'm made As active as the roe ; And oftentimes , with equal fpeed , Thro ' flow'ry lawns I go . When wicked men their wealth ...
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... earth ; and it does indeed appear probable , that there is fome fecret connection between the employ- ment which adorns the body , and that which adorns the mind , not only from analogy , but from facts . Beloved John of Leyden was a ...
... earth ; and it does indeed appear probable , that there is fome fecret connection between the employ- ment which adorns the body , and that which adorns the mind , not only from analogy , but from facts . Beloved John of Leyden was a ...
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... earth was counted wife ; Facetious this , and this fincere ; This was good - natur'd to a fault . And this was charitably giv'n ; Alike they moulder , in the vault ; Ah , that alike they rofe to Heav'n ! She that lies here was fair and ...
... earth was counted wife ; Facetious this , and this fincere ; This was good - natur'd to a fault . And this was charitably giv'n ; Alike they moulder , in the vault ; Ah , that alike they rofe to Heav'n ! She that lies here was fair and ...
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Page 220 - It was computed that fifteen hundred persons were killed or made prisoners by these savages during this fatal day. Many of the latter were carried off by them and never returned. A few, through favorable accidents, found their way back to their native country, after having experienced a long and severe captivity.
Page 214 - ... women and children, were drawn up within the lines, and on the point of marching off, when great numbers of the Indians gathered about, and began to plunder.
Page 113 - When Vere sought death arm'd with the sword and shield, Death was afraid to meet him in the field ; But when his weapons he had laid aside, Death like a coward struck him and he died."t • Relics of St. Andrew are said to have been given to the Abbey by Kins; Athelstan, relics of St. John the Evangelist by " good Queen Maude,
Page 220 - I shall only add, that after passing three days without subsistence, and enduring the severity of the cold dews for three nights, I at length reached fort Edward ; where with proper care my body soon recovered its wonted strength, and my mind, as far as the recollection of the late melancholy events would permit, its usual composure. It was computed that fifteen hundred persons were killed or made prisoners by these savages during this fatal day.
Page 212 - ... with a greater number from the adjacent army. But the colonel having acquainted General Webb with his...
Page 253 - Insulting rival, never boast Thy conquest lately won ; No wonder if her heart was lost, Her senses first were gone. " From one that's under Bedlam's laws What glory can be had ? For love of thee was not the cause, It proves that she was mad.
Page 221 - He died in about three months, of a broken heart, and with truth might it be said, that he was an honor to his country.
Page 221 - Webb fen ta party of troops to demand and protect him back to Fort Edward. But thefe unhappy occurrences, which would probably have been prevented had he been left to purfue his own plans, together with the lofs of fo many brave fellows murdered in cold blood, to whofe valour he had been fo lately a witncfa, made fuch an impreffion on his mind, that he did not long furvive.
Page 248 - ... the country ; the portentous noifes which every change of the wind, and every increafe and diminution of the waters, is apt to raife, in a lonely region, full of echoes, and rocks, and caverns ; the grotefque and ghaftly appearance of fuch a landfcape by the light of the moon...
Page 247 - ... refounding with the fall of torrents ; a foil fo rugged and a climate fo dreary, as in many parts to admit neither the amufements of...