The Oriental herald and colonial review [ed. by J.S. Buckingham]., Volume 4James Silk Buckingham 1825 |
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... possession of all these rare and difficult qualifications , or from more occult causes , that Lord Combermere is ... possessed in common with almost every British officer - he has had the good fortune to render himself peculiarly ...
... possession of all these rare and difficult qualifications , or from more occult causes , that Lord Combermere is ... possessed in common with almost every British officer - he has had the good fortune to render himself peculiarly ...
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... possessed half his knowledge or penetration . People often confute him to their own satisfaction , but to no one's in the world besides . Politics , Book ii . ch . 7. p . 123 , & c . Plutarch relates some of the strokes of the comic ...
... possessed half his knowledge or penetration . People often confute him to their own satisfaction , but to no one's in the world besides . Politics , Book ii . ch . 7. p . 123 , & c . Plutarch relates some of the strokes of the comic ...
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... possession its embers expand into flame , Till again I embrace the few Friends that are dear , How dearer than riches , than power , or fame ! Behold ! from the mast , the proud signal still waving , While the gale swells the sails that ...
... possession its embers expand into flame , Till again I embrace the few Friends that are dear , How dearer than riches , than power , or fame ! Behold ! from the mast , the proud signal still waving , While the gale swells the sails that ...
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... possession of these means , will depend upon the end to which they are directed if they are directed to the support of bad government , the possession of these means is to be lamented ; if to the support of good government , the greater ...
... possession of these means , will depend upon the end to which they are directed if they are directed to the support of bad government , the possession of these means is to be lamented ; if to the support of good government , the greater ...
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... possession of sufficient means to have taken his lodging in a house adapted for vagrant travellers . " How can that be ? for an alehouse is the only sort of house adapted for them , and we have seen that this is as bad as sleeping in ...
... possession of sufficient means to have taken his lodging in a house adapted for vagrant travellers . " How can that be ? for an alehouse is the only sort of house adapted for them , and we have seen that this is as bad as sleeping in ...
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Page 326 - And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. 42. For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt : they shall not be sold as bondmen.
Page 505 - Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up ? Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music...
Page 65 - Thou faery voyager! that dost float In such clear water, that thy boat May rather seem To brood on air than on an earthly stream; Suspended in a stream as clear as sky, Where earth and heaven do make one imagery; 0 blessed vision! happy child! Thou art so exquisitely wild, 1 think of thee with many fears For what may be thy lot in future years.
Page 31 - Animated with all the avarice of age and all the impetuosity of youth, they roll in one after another, wave after wave, and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting.
Page 352 - The Religion of the Mexican Nation is, and will be perpetually, the Roman Catholic Apostolic. The Nation will protect it by wise and just laws, and prohibit the exercise of any other whatever.
Page 160 - Personal liberty," it has been well said, "consists in the power of locomotion, of changing situation, or removing one's person to whatsoever place one's own inclination may direct, without imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law.
Page 3 - Oh, what a pure and sacred thing Is beauty, curtain'd from the sight Of the gross world, illumining One only mansion with her light ! Unseen by man's disturbing eye, — The flower, that blooms beneath the sea Too deep for sunbeams, doth not lie Hid in more chaste obscurity ! So, Hinda, have thy face and mind, Like holy mysteries, lain enshrined.
Page 31 - Our conquest there, after twenty years, is as crude as it was the first day. The natives scarcely know what it is to see the grey head of an Englishman. Young men (boys almost) govern there, without society and without sympathy with the natives.
Page 233 - But when a poet, or when one like me, Happy to rove among poetic flowers, Though poor in skill to rear them, lights at last On some fair theme, some theme divinely fair, Such is the impulse and the spur he feels To give it praise proportioned to its worth, That not to attempt it, arduous as he deems The labour, were a task more arduous still.
Page 24 - Justice, on the Oath of a credible Witness, that the said AB is a Person of evil Fame and a reputed Thief, and the said AB on his Examination before me not being able to give a satisfactory Account of himself, or of his Way of Living...