The English Review, Or, an Abstract of English and Foreign Literature Volume 7 (1786) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1786 Excerpt: ...and disposal of their fortunes, has dwindled into the farce of auricular confession. When the point in dispute between ministry and opposition, relates only to the rights of human nature, and a matter of compassion, matters are easily compromised. FISHERIES. About an hundred years ago, when the Scottish bation were full of the project of fettling a colony, and commanding the trade of the world at Daribn, on the isthmus, of Panama, Mr. Harley, afterwards Earl of Oxford, was wont to tell Scots gentlemen, in conversation, and to advise his correspondents in Scotland, that it was very singular, and apparently ill judged, to put themselves to fa much trouble and expence, in laying a foundation for industry abroad, when their own shores furnished an inexhaustible fund of wealth and national greatness. The propriety of cultivating the fisheries on the Scottish coast has at all times been obvious; and now it is to be hoped that it will be made a subject of serious consideration, and that parliament will support and carry into effect whatever prudent and practicable measures may be pointed out by the patriotism and good sense ot the committee of fisheries. Communicationsfor The Enclish Review are requested t- it sent to Mr. Murray, No. 32, Fleet-street, London, where SubJcriben for this Monthly Performance are respectfully defietd 'to give in tietr Nameu THE ENGLISH R EVIEW, For APRIL, 1786. Art. t. The History of Ancient Greece, its Colonies, and Conquests j from the earliest Accounts till the Division of the Macedonian Empire in the East. Including the History of Literature, Philo/ophj, and tht fine Arts. By John Gillies, L. L. D. 4K). i voh. al. 23. board:, . Cadell, 1786. TTISTORICAL composition hath assumed a different form in modern times, from what it dis...