The Quarterly Review, Volume 38William 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, 1828 - English literature |
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... islands , there is only one observatory , and scarcely one supported by the government ! We say scarcely one , because we believe that some of the instruments in the observatory of Green- wich were purchased out of the private funds of ...
... islands , there is only one observatory , and scarcely one supported by the government ! We say scarcely one , because we believe that some of the instruments in the observatory of Green- wich were purchased out of the private funds of ...
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... island some centuries ago , when the number of the people did not exceed one million . Spenser describes them as inhabiting ' sties rather than houses , which are the chiefest cause of the farmer's so beastly manner of life and savage ...
... island some centuries ago , when the number of the people did not exceed one million . Spenser describes them as inhabiting ' sties rather than houses , which are the chiefest cause of the farmer's so beastly manner of life and savage ...
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... island , asserts , that the improvement of Ireland is as rapid as any country ever experienced . ' In 1805 Major Newenham presented the public with a series of tables , which throw great light on all ques- tions connected with the ...
... island , asserts , that the improvement of Ireland is as rapid as any country ever experienced . ' In 1805 Major Newenham presented the public with a series of tables , which throw great light on all ques- tions connected with the ...
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... island did to the one million ' of the seventeenth century . Although still far behind the same class in England , it must yet be acknowledged , that , for the last fifty years , a rapid and progressive improvement has been taking place ...
... island did to the one million ' of the seventeenth century . Although still far behind the same class in England , it must yet be acknowledged , that , for the last fifty years , a rapid and progressive improvement has been taking place ...
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... the internal resources of that island . As they cannot find the means of transporting the unoccupied labourers of Ireland to the the colonies , we should advise them to try what 60 Ireland : its Evils and their Remedies .
... the internal resources of that island . As they cannot find the means of transporting the unoccupied labourers of Ireland to the the colonies , we should advise them to try what 60 Ireland : its Evils and their Remedies .
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Page 19 - But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice...
Page 307 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 19 - His mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord ; so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud ; for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
Page 136 - And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
Page 135 - Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land. And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king to them all ; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
Page 434 - Isabel," said he, Two evenings after he had heard the news, "I have been toiling more than seventy years, And in the open sunshine of God's love...
Page 19 - ... it came even to pass as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord ; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good ; for his mercy endureth for ever...
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