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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... Observations upon the Importance of the North Ame- rican Colonies to Great Britain , by an old Inhabitant of British America ( Mr. Haliburton ) . VII . Report of the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the Wages of Labour , 356 ...
... Observations upon the Importance of the North Ame- rican Colonies to Great Britain , by an old Inhabitant of British America ( Mr. Haliburton ) . VII . Report of the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the Wages of Labour , 356 ...
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... It is , indeed , not a little curious to observe the manner in which Dr. Lingard details the whole progress of the amour during five years , with the precision and accuracy of one of Marivaux's novels with 12 The Reformation in England .
... It is , indeed , not a little curious to observe the manner in which Dr. Lingard details the whole progress of the amour during five years , with the precision and accuracy of one of Marivaux's novels with 12 The Reformation in England .
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... observed , when they cease to consider Mount Meru as 20,000 miles high , and the world as a flower , of which India is the cup , and other countries the leaves , their minds may become more open to rational views on the subject of reli ...
... observed , when they cease to consider Mount Meru as 20,000 miles high , and the world as a flower , of which India is the cup , and other countries the leaves , their minds may become more open to rational views on the subject of reli ...
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... observe , what is well known to those who have been long in India , that we hold it mainly by the belief in our military superiority ; for though in a narrow cirele round the Presidencies , where our system of government , and the ...
... observe , what is well known to those who have been long in India , that we hold it mainly by the belief in our military superiority ; for though in a narrow cirele round the Presidencies , where our system of government , and the ...
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... observed that the retreat of their troops was conducted in the most orderly manner , nor was a single act of violence committed in the course of it , or during their continuance on the British territories . It is greatly to be lamented ...
... observed that the retreat of their troops was conducted in the most orderly manner , nor was a single act of violence committed in the course of it , or during their continuance on the British territories . It is greatly to be lamented ...
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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.