The Gentleman's Magazine, Volumen4

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F. Jefferies, 1734
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 33 - But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed." What then? is the reward of virtue bread? That, vice may merit, 'tis the price of toil; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where folly fights for kings, or dives for gain. The good man may be weak, be indolent; Nor is his claim to plenty, but content. But grant him riches, your demand is o'er?
Página 147 - The broadest mirth unfeeling Folly wears Less pleasing far than Virtue's very tears : Good, from each object, from each place...
Página 33 - tis the price of toil; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it when he tempts the main, Where folly fights for kings, or dives for gain. The good man may be weak, be indolent: Nor is his claim to plenty, but content. But grant him riches, your demand is o'er; 'No—shall the good want health, the good want power?' Add health, and power, and every earthly thing. 'Why bounded power? why private? why no king?
Página 216 - ... or any acquittance or receipt either for money or goods, or any accountable receipt for any note, bill, or other security for payment of money, or any warrant or order for payment of money or delivery of goods, with intention to defraud...
Página 417 - Better for us, perhaps it might appear, Were there all harmony, all virtue here: That never air or ocean felt the wind ; That never passion discomposed the mind. But ALL subsists by elemental strife ; And passions are the elements of life. The general ORDER, since the whole began, Is kept in Nature, and is kept in man.
Página 87 - Whose life is healthful, and whose conscience clear, Because he wants a thousand pounds a year.
Página 305 - Look'd through? or can a part contain the whole? Is the great chain, that draws all to agree, And drawn, supports, upheld by God or thee?
Página 193 - But mutual wants this happiness increase ; All Nature's difference keeps all Nature's peace. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king. In who obtain defence, or who defend, In him who is, or him who finds a friend ; 48 Heaven breathes through every member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
Página 193 - Obvious her goods, in no extreme they dwell; There needs but thinking right, and meaning well ; And mourn our various portions as we please, Equal is common sense, and common ease. Remember, man, the universal cause Acts not by partial, but by gen'ral laws ; And makes what happiness we justly call Subsist not in the good of one, but all.
Página 87 - Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. Look next on greatnefs ; fay where greatnefs lies, Where, but among the heroes and the wife ? Heroes are much the fame, the point's...

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