The Quarterly Review, Volume 89William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1851 - English literature |
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... direct their course to the United States , where already it is not so easy a matter to obtain employment or to purchase land ? These are questions which I have often considered without being able fully to resolve them . Often enough ...
... direct their course to the United States , where already it is not so easy a matter to obtain employment or to purchase land ? These are questions which I have often considered without being able fully to resolve them . Often enough ...
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... direct , and perhaps to Liverpool . ' Now for their views on Commercial Supremacy : - In every sea where England had for nearly two hundred years been supreme , she now finds a hardy , bold , and shrewd competitor in the Yankee , who ...
... direct , and perhaps to Liverpool . ' Now for their views on Commercial Supremacy : - In every sea where England had for nearly two hundred years been supreme , she now finds a hardy , bold , and shrewd competitor in the Yankee , who ...
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... direct regulation of public affairs for some years after they have first begun to hew their farms out of the solitary wilderness . The New Englanders come in to do this . The west is an outlet for their superfluous lawyers , their ...
... direct regulation of public affairs for some years after they have first begun to hew their farms out of the solitary wilderness . The New Englanders come in to do this . The west is an outlet for their superfluous lawyers , their ...
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... direct violation of a safe - conduct granted in the names of Ferdinand and Isabella , to the great infamy and infinite faithlessness of all these crowns .'- ii . 27 . It is said that the last hours of the great Captain ' were embittered ...
... direct violation of a safe - conduct granted in the names of Ferdinand and Isabella , to the great infamy and infinite faithlessness of all these crowns .'- ii . 27 . It is said that the last hours of the great Captain ' were embittered ...
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... direct it , and which was inflicted upon Count Orsi , father of the assassin . The old man , then in his eighty- sixth year , after being exposed on the great square to insults of the soldiery in presence of the whole populace , was ...
... direct it , and which was inflicted upon Count Orsi , father of the assassin . The old man , then in his eighty- sixth year , after being exposed on the great square to insults of the soldiery in presence of the whole populace , was ...
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Page 372 - Oblivion is not to be hired; the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been; to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.
Page 29 - Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits ; camphire with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron ; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices : A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
Page 377 - Slanders, sir : for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams...
Page 32 - With fairest flowers Whilst summer lasts and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor The azured harebell, like thy veins, no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 16 - Distrust the condiment that bites so soon; But deem it not, thou man of herbs, a fault To add a double quantity of salt; Four times the spoon with oil of Lucca crown, And twice with vinegar procured from town; And lastly o'er the flavoured compound toss A magic soupcon of anchovy sauce.
Page 377 - The world was made to be inhabited by beasts, but studied and contemplated by man : 'tis the debt of our reason we owe unto God, and the homage we pay for not being beasts : without this, the world is still as though it had not been, or as it was before the sixth day, when as yet there was not a creature that could conceive, or say there was a world.
Page 235 - Then the Minister shall kneel, and say the Lord's Prayer with an audible voice ; the people also kneeling, and repeating it with him, both here, and wheresoever else it is used in Divine Service.
Page 141 - I treated him insolently: he loved me, and I did not think he did. I reproached him with the difference between us when he acted from...
Page 271 - England has erected no churches, no hospitals, no palaces, no schools ; England has built no bridges, made no high roads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by anything better than the ourang-outang or the tiger.
Page 220 - Communion in the church, or execute any other public ministration, he shall have upon him, besides his Rochette, a Surplice, or Alb, and a Cope or Vestment, and also his pastoral staff in his hand, or else borne or holden by his chaplain.