The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, Volume 74Archibald Constable and Company, 1812 - English literature |
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... Letters appended to Trotter's Me- moirs of Fox . I was much gratified , my dear Sir , with your letter , as your taste seems so exactly to agree with mine ; and am very glad , for your sake , that you have taken to Greek , as it will ...
... Letters appended to Trotter's Me- moirs of Fox . I was much gratified , my dear Sir , with your letter , as your taste seems so exactly to agree with mine ; and am very glad , for your sake , that you have taken to Greek , as it will ...
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... letters from Rear - Admi- ral Stopford , and Commodore Broughton , detailing the particulars of the co - opera tion of the navy in the reduction of Bata- via , and the attack upon Fort Cornelis . A letter from Rear Admiral Stopford ...
... letters from Rear - Admi- ral Stopford , and Commodore Broughton , detailing the particulars of the co - opera tion of the navy in the reduction of Bata- via , and the attack upon Fort Cornelis . A letter from Rear Admiral Stopford ...
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... letter of the 11th inst . has since been held , by order of the President of the United States , on the . conduct of Commodore Rodgers , and this . preliminary to further discussion on the subject being all that I asked in the first ...
... letter of the 11th inst . has since been held , by order of the President of the United States , on the . conduct of Commodore Rodgers , and this . preliminary to further discussion on the subject being all that I asked in the first ...
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... letter of the 1st November , and to Lay it before the President . It is much to be regretted that the repa January 1812 . ration due for such an aggression as that committed on the United States frigate the Chesapeake , should have been ...
... letter of the 1st November , and to Lay it before the President . It is much to be regretted that the repa January 1812 . ration due for such an aggression as that committed on the United States frigate the Chesapeake , should have been ...
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... letter from Mr Foster , stating that he had commenced his negociations with Mr Monroe , relative to the orders in Council . Mr Foster , in a letter dated the 22d October , alludes to Mr Russell's letters , announcing the liberation of ...
... letter from Mr Foster , stating that he had commenced his negociations with Mr Monroe , relative to the orders in Council . Mr Foster , in a letter dated the 22d October , alludes to Mr Russell's letters , announcing the liberation of ...
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Page 372 - tis haunted, holy ground; No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould, But one vast realm of wonder spreads around, And all the Muse's tales seem truly told, Till the sense aches with gazing to behold The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt upon; Each hill and dale, each deepening glen and wold Defies the power which crush'd thy temples gone: Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
Page 625 - June 22, rose in the house of commons ; and after a most eloquent and energetic speech, moved " that this house will early in the next session of parliament, take into its most serious consideration the state of the laws affecting his majesty's Roman catholic subjects in Great Britain and Ireland ; with a view to such a final and conciliatory adjustment, as may be conducive to the peace and strength of the united kingdom ; to the stability of the protestant establishment, and to the general satisfaction...
Page 372 - Nature's varied favorite now. Thy fanes, thy temples to thy surface bow, Commingling slowly with heroic earth. Broke by the share of every rustic plough : So perish monuments of mortal birth. So perish all in turn, save well-recorded worth...
Page 630 - ... views of other powers, and preserving a constant readiness to concur in an honorable re-establishment of peace and friendship, is a solemn question which the constitution wisely confides to the legislative department of the Government. In recommending it to their early deliberations, I am happy in the assurance that the decision will be worthy the enlightened and patriotic councils of a virtuous, a free, and a powerful nation.
Page 371 - Fair Greece ! sad relic of departed worth ! Immortal, though no more; though fallen, great! Who now shall lead thy scatter'd children forth, And long accustom'd bondage uncreate? Not such thy sons who whilome did await, The hopeless warriors of a willing doom, In bleak Thermopylae's sepulchral strait— Oh ! who that gallant spirit shall resume, Leap from Eurotas' banks, and call thee from the tomb?
Page 195 - When it raineth it is his pent-house; when it bloweth it is his tent ; when it freezeth it is his tabernacle. In summer he can wear it loose, in winter he can wrap it close ; at all times he can use it ; never heavy, never cumbersome.
Page 630 - ... courts, no longer the organs of public law, but the instruments of arbitrary edicts, and their unfortunate crews dispersed and lost, or forced or inveigled in British ports into British fleets ; whilst arguments are employed, in support of these aggressions, which have no foundation but in a principle equally supporting a claim to regulate our external commerce in all cases whatsoever. " We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain, a state of war against the United States ; on the side of...
Page 630 - ... on our vessels and our citizens. It will have been seen, also, that no indemnity had been provided, or satisfactorily pledged, for the extensive spoliations committed under the violent and retrospective orders of the French government against the property of our citizens seized within the jurisdiction of France. I abstain, at this time, from recommending to the consideration of Congress definitive measures with respect to that nation...
Page 444 - Viscounts' eldest sons. Earls' younger sons. Barons' eldest sons. Knights of the Garter. Privy Counsellors. Chancellor of the Exchequer. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
Page 282 - And he answered, Behold thy servant! And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father ; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.