The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 25F. Jefferies, 1755 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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Page 481 - For people increase in proportion to the number of marriages, and that is greater in proportion to the ease and convenience of supporting a family. When families can be easily supported, more persons marry, and earlier in life.
Page 547 - I have resolved to remedy this defect by publishing one every year under the title of the Court Calendar, calculated for the meridian of St. James's. The plan, which has been hitherto followed by our almanack-makers, can be of no...
Page 128 - It ftill retains its native grin, And all its old grimace. Thus half transform'd and half the fame, Jove bade them take their place, (Reftoring them their ancient claim) Among the human race.
Page 481 - Hence marriages in America are more general, and more generally early than in Europe. And if it is reckoned there, that there is but one marriage per annum among one hundred persons, perhaps we may here reckon two ; and if in Europe they have but four births to a marriage (many of their marriages being late), we may here reckon eight, of which, if one half grow up, and our marriages are made, reckoning one with another, at twenty years of age, our people must at least be doubled every twenty years.
Page 547 - A duchess is so far from dining at eleven, that it often happens, that her Grace has not then opened her eyes on the tea-table ; and a maid of honour would no more rise at...
Page 483 - This million doubling, suppose but once in twenty-five years,* will, in another century, be more than the people of England, and the greatest number of Englishmen will be on this side the water.
Page 481 - Luxury is more common: many live single during life, and continue servants to families, journeymen to Trades, &c. hence cities do not by natural generation supply themselves with inhabitants; the deaths are more than the births. 4. In countries full settled, the case must be nearly the same; all Lands being occupied...
Page 483 - Thus, there are supposed to be now upwards of one million English souls in North America (though it is thought scarce eighty thousand has been brought over sea), and yet perhaps there is not one the fewer in Britain, but rather many more, on account of the employment the colonies afford to manufacturers at home.
Page 547 - Thus the morning dawns with early risers between eleven and twelve ; and noon commences at four, when, at this time of the year, the dinner and wax-lights come in together. For want of a thorough knowledge of the distribution of the day, all who have any connection with the polite world...
Page 215 - ... carried round the churchyard in grand procession. The image of the Virgin Mary was chief mourner ; and John and Magdalen, with a whole troop of friars with wax tapers in their hands, followed after.