A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Band 3

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814

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Mr Harris of Salisbury to Fieldings Parson
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Dr Stuart to James Cummyng Esq Secretary
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Mr Williams to Mrs West on the Education
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Two Letters from the Rev Dr Nathaniel Lan
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Letters from Dr Johnson relative to the Lives
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Dr Johnson to the Rev Mr Wilson and a
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A Noble Lord to a Young Lady on the eve
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Dr Johnson to Warren Hastings Esq Governor
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Letters from Dr Johnson and Dr Adams
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Letters to and from Dr Johnson on Suicide
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Letters from Addison to Lord Wharton
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The Rev Mr Hearne Rector of the United Pa rishes of St Alphage and St Mary North gate Canterbury to the Rev George Horne Dean of Canterbury
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Dr Timothy Neve to the Rev Littleton Brown at Bishops Castle Shropshire
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Letters from Mr Howard
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Sir Dudley Carlton to Mr Winwood
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The Earl of Buchans Address to his learned Correspondents
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Letters from Sir Richard Steele to his second Lady Mrs Mary Scurlocke before Marriage
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Letters from Ephraim Chambers
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Letters from Dr Young to Mr Williams
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Letters from Mr Pope and the Earl of Oxford
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Letters from Zachary Williams on the Longitude some of them corrected and others written by Dr Samuel Johnson
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Letters from Cowley and Dryden to Dr Busby
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Extracts of Letters from Dr Arbuthnot to Mr Watkins
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Letters from Richard Savage a few weeks before his death
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Thomas Hearne to Lord Harley on the Alexan drian MS of the New Testament
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David Hume to Sir John Pringle M D on the Pre tenders being in London in 1753
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The Rev Dr Free to Archbishop Moore
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The Rev S Pegge to the Rev Charles Hope Minister of All Saints Derby relative to the subscription for the reparation c of the Cathedral Church of Lic...
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From General Wolfe
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Bp Horne to a Young Clergyman
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From Dr Johnson on the Death of his Wife
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Letters from Doctors Hildesley Hales Leland
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Dean Swift to Mr Windar
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Lewis Morris Esq to his Brother William
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From John Evelyn on the Culture and
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Letter written at Paris by Dr Benjamin Frank
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Letters from Bishops Hoadly and Butler and Page
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ANECDOTES OF EXTRAORDINARY PERSONS
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Method of staining Marble
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Method of preserving Books from the Depredations
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Account of Jedediah Buxton
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Account of John Ludwig a Saxon Peasant
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Secret of the Fireeating Art
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XXI The effect of Musk in curing the Gout in
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A genuine Narrative of the Sufferings of
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Account of threatening Letters sent to
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On the unlikeness of Shakespeares Busts
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Rustic Philosophy
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Remarkable Anecdote from Plots History of Oxfordshire
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Case and Opinion on the execution of Doyle and Valline
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Want of CHARACTER a common defect
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On the general application of the word GREAT
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Description of a wonderful Automaton In a Letter from the Rev Mr Dutens
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Method of taking impressions from Medals
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Lunar Head Ache with Remedies
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Enumeration of Vulgar Errors
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On Avarice in Old Age
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Distillation of a Spirituous Liquor from Milk
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Wonderful Effects of a Sympathetic Powder
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Physical Error exploded
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Various Anecdotes Extraordinary Predictions
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Description of a Picture in Windsor Castle re presenting the Interview between King Henry VIII and Francis I of France
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Effects of Salt in fattening Cattle
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Sermon in praise of Derbyshire
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Dr Beatties Account of Second Sight
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Useful Hints for learning to swim By Ben jamin Franklin LL D F R S In a letter to a friend
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Account of Valentine Greatrakes the Stroker
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Names of those who first constituted the Anti
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On Apparitions
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The effect of Music on the Nerves and on
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On the Ventilation of Prisons
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Instance of a singular Dream and correspond
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Influence of particular Studies with respect
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Origin of Tontines
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On Catching Cold
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Method of using the Cold Bath to most ad vantage
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Sufferings of Lieut George Spearing in a Coal Pit
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Against shooting Swallows Martens c
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A curious Story of an Apparition
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Proposal for lending small sums to the In dustrious Poor
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Cold Water recommended for a Scald
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Sir Ashton Levers Directions for preserving Birds c
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Royal HawkKing Jamess Hawking Sir Anthony Weldon Weldons Court of King James
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Curious Chirurgical Operation
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The word PREMISES improperly applied
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Observations of a Youth who had just re covered his Sight
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Feasting on Live Flesh
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Useful method of flooring at Bengal
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Principal Cause of Smoky Chimneys with a remedy
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Scurvy caused by common culinary Salt
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The efficacy of Yeast in Putrid Fevers
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Easy and effectual Cure for Wens
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Cures for the Asthma
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Singular Predilection for the Term of Forty Days
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Seite 330 - This figure that thou here seest put It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the life : O could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he has hit His face ; the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass : But since he cannot, reader, look Not on his picture, but his book.
Seite 514 - ... the room he was in, he said, he knew to be but part of the house, yet he could not conceive that the whole house could look bigger.
Seite 114 - And now, sir, believe me, when I assure you, I never did nor ever will, on any pretence whatsoever, take more than the stated and customary fees of my office. I might keep the contrary practice concealed from the world, were I capable of it, but I could not from myself. And I hope I shall always fear the reproaches of my own heart more than those of all mankind.
Seite 175 - Treat your wife always with respect; it will procure respect to you, not only from her, but from all that observe it. Never use a slighting expression to her, even in jest ; for slights in jest, after frequent bandyings, are apt to end in angry earnest.
Seite 105 - The greatest benefit which one friend can confer upon another is to guard, and excite, and elevate his virtues. This your mother will still perform if you diligently preserve the memory of her life and of her death : a life, so far as I can learn, useful, wise, and innocent; and a death resigned, peaceful, and holy.
Seite 64 - Our friend, Dr. Hurd, having long ago desired me, in your name to communicate any fragments or sketches of a design, I once had, to give a History of English Poetry, you may well think me rude or negligent, when you see me hesitating for so many months, before I comply with your request, and yet, believe me, few of your friends have been better pleased than I, to find this subject (surely neither unentertaining nor unuseful) had fallen into hands so likely to do it justice.
Seite 192 - These are the great occasions which force the mind to take refuge in religion : when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power ? and to what hope may we not raise our eyes and hearts, when we consider that the greatest POWER is the BEST?' Surely there is no man who, thus afflicted, does not seek succour in the gospel, which has brought life and immortality to light.
Seite 514 - And now being lately couched of his other eye, he says, that objects at first appeared large to this eye, but not so large as they did at first to the other ; and looking upon the same object with both eyes, he thought it looked about twice as large as with the first couched eye only, but not double, that we can any ways discover.
Seite 426 - ... reach the egg, teach you the manner of acting on the water with your feet and hands, which action is afterwards used in swimming to support your head higher above the water, or to go forward through it...
Seite 372 - I am commanded to signify to you His Majesty's pleasure that you should...

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