An impartial history of the town and county of Newcastle upon Tyne [by J. Baillie].

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Stran 223 - am always ferious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature, in her deep and folemn fcenes, with the fame pleafure as in her molt gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myfelf with thofe objects which others confider with terror.— When
Stran 294 - be naked and deftitute of daily food, and one of you fay unto them, depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled ; notwithstanding ye give them not thofe things which are needful to the
Stran 76 - to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, To pour the frefli inftruftion o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The
Stran 442 - gentlemen have upon great hope of benefit come into this country to hazard their monies in coale-pits.—Mafter Beaumont, a gentleman of great ingenuity and rare parts, adventured into our mines with his thirty thoufand pounds; who brought with him many rare engines not known then in thefe parts; as the art to boore with iron rodds, to try the
Stran 223 - look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every immoderate
Stran 17 - and it carries our reflections forward to the confummation of all things, as defcribed by the unrivalled Shakefpeare. " The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The folemn temples, the great globe itfelf, Yea, all that it inherit, (hall diffolve ! And, like the bafelefs fabric of a vifion, Leave not a
Stran 305 - peculiar grace, To fee kind hands attending day and night, With tender miniftry from place to place ; Some prop the head ; fome from the pallid face Wipe off the faint cold dews weak nature Iheds ; Some reach the healing draught; the whilft, to chace
Stran 10 - at the diftance of forty or fifty yards, looking wildly at the object of their furprife; and, upon the leaft motion being made, they all turn round again, and gallop off with equal fpeed, but not to the fame diftance ; forming a fliorter circle, and again returning with a bolder and more threatening
Stran 508 - with fome peculiar advantages, which, though fingly of little importance, would by conjunction and concurrence open new inlets to knowledge, and give new powers to diligence." Having thus given a general detail of the various branches of trade, peculiar to this commercial town, we
Stran 441 - Many thoufand people are imployed in this trade of coales : many live by working of them in the pits: many live by conveying them in waggons and waines to the river Tyne : many men are employed in conveying the coales in keeles from the (lathes aboard the

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