The Quarterly Review, Volume 33William 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, 1826 - English literature |
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... circumstances of their case and of the times into consideration , we shall wonder that they effected so much , rather than that their system and conduct fell short of perfection . We deny not their infirmities , their errors , even ...
... circumstances of their case and of the times into consideration , we shall wonder that they effected so much , rather than that their system and conduct fell short of perfection . We deny not their infirmities , their errors , even ...
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... circumstances of her case , as far as they can be authenticated . Few , except the lowest and most ignorant of her modern assailants , are hardy enough to maintain to their fullest extent the atrocious calumnies of Sanders , which ...
... circumstances of her case , as far as they can be authenticated . Few , except the lowest and most ignorant of her modern assailants , are hardy enough to maintain to their fullest extent the atrocious calumnies of Sanders , which ...
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... circumstances to those of Anne Boleyn . Des . A guiltless death I die . Emil . Oh ! who has done this deed ? Des . Nobody , I myself - farewell , Commend me to my kind Lord - Oh ! farewell . ' Before we quit this subject , we would ...
... circumstances to those of Anne Boleyn . Des . A guiltless death I die . Emil . Oh ! who has done this deed ? Des . Nobody , I myself - farewell , Commend me to my kind Lord - Oh ! farewell . ' Before we quit this subject , we would ...
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... circumstance of the request of the two brothers , and the escape of the elder one , that some charm prevented his death . The crimes of these poor creatures were various . One had been digging under a pagoda ; another had stabbed a ...
... circumstance of the request of the two brothers , and the escape of the elder one , that some charm prevented his death . The crimes of these poor creatures were various . One had been digging under a pagoda ; another had stabbed a ...
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... circumstances were not taken into consideration by Lord Amherst and his advisers ; but they certainly made a false estimate of the power and resources of the Burmans , when they so hastily determined on the invasion of their country ...
... circumstances were not taken into consideration by Lord Amherst and his advisers ; but they certainly made a false estimate of the power and resources of the Burmans , when they so hastily determined on the invasion of their country ...
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Page 92 - For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost ; and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood ; and these three agree in one.
Page 272 - Sweet Queen of Parley, Daughter of the Sphere! So may'st thou be translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all Heaven's harmonies!
Page 169 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 438 - ... grievously whipped and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about, as a manifestation of his wicked life, and due punishment received for the same.
Page 359 - In their lowest servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity ; of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.
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Page 506 - The Parliament of Great Britain sits at the head of her extensive empire in two capacities. One as the local legislature of this island, providing for all things at home, immediately, and by no other instrument than the executive power. The other, and I think her nobler capacity, is what I call her imperial character ; in which, as from the throne of heaven, she superintends all the several inferior legislatures, and guides and controls them all without annihilating any.
Page 290 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth...
Page 309 - Home from my office to my Lord's lodgings where my wife had got ready a very fine dinner — viz. a dish of marrow bones; a leg of mutton; a loin of veal; a dish of fowl, three pullets, and a dozen of larks all in a dish; a great tart, a neat's tongue, a dish of anchovies; a dish of prawns and cheese.
Page 292 - Garden. And in the Privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linnen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw ; and did me good to look at them.