Analectic Magazine: Containing Selections from Foreign Reviews and Magazines, Volume 8James Maxwell, 1816 |
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... mind , often rise to distinctions which seem placed forever beyond their reach by the accident of birth . Those , therefore , who go forth into the world the children of Fortune , are not always prompted by a mere idle impatience of the ...
... mind , often rise to distinctions which seem placed forever beyond their reach by the accident of birth . Those , therefore , who go forth into the world the children of Fortune , are not always prompted by a mere idle impatience of the ...
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... mind might therefore be said to have been considerably cultivated , and his manners were those of a gen- tleman . It is not known through whose influence he obtained it , but not long after he was appointed a midshipman , in the first ...
... mind might therefore be said to have been considerably cultivated , and his manners were those of a gen- tleman . It is not known through whose influence he obtained it , but not long after he was appointed a midshipman , in the first ...
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... an attempt that had for its object , the ultimate liberation of those engaged in the same cause with himself . The attempt showed a mind above the ordinary stamp , and that it produced other effects , we have no authority NAVAL CHRONICLE .
... an attempt that had for its object , the ultimate liberation of those engaged in the same cause with himself . The attempt showed a mind above the ordinary stamp , and that it produced other effects , we have no authority NAVAL CHRONICLE .
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... mind in truth is too apt to associate courage and ferocity together , and it is seldom we hear of a daring or des- perate exploit , but we figure to our minds , a sort of rugged barbarian , with the form of a Hercules , the countenance ...
... mind in truth is too apt to associate courage and ferocity together , and it is seldom we hear of a daring or des- perate exploit , but we figure to our minds , a sort of rugged barbarian , with the form of a Hercules , the countenance ...
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... mind of considerable powers , both of reasoning and observation ; and in the management of his crew , as well as the conduct of a battle , was reckoned equal to any man of his time . He has been accused of want of cou- rage , because he ...
... mind of considerable powers , both of reasoning and observation ; and in the management of his crew , as well as the conduct of a battle , was reckoned equal to any man of his time . He has been accused of want of cou- rage , because he ...
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