The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal, Volume 8

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J. Ridgeway amd sons, 1839 - English periodicals

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Page 295 - ... all persons inhabiting in, or resorting to, our said colonies, may confide in our royal protection for the enjoyment of the benefit of the laws of our realm of England...
Page 425 - Mystics acted in no slight degree to prevent my mind from being imprisoned within the outline of any single dogmatic system. They contributed to keep alive the heart in the head ; gave me an indistinct, yet stirring and working presentiment, that all the products of the mere reflective faculty partook of death...
Page 428 - Murillo and Velasquez. His mouth was gross, voluptuous, open, eloquent; his chin good-humoured and round ; but his nose, the rudder of the face, the index of the will, was small, feeble, nothing — like what he has done.
Page 295 - ... so soon as the state and circumstances of the said colonies will admit thereof, they shall, with the advice and consent of the members of our council, summon and call general assemblies, within the said governments respectively, in such manner and form as is used and directed in those colonies and provinces in America, which are under our immediate government...
Page 297 - The French and Canadians shall continue to be governed according to the custom of Paris, and the laws and usages established for this country, and they shall not be subject to any other imposts than those which were established under the French Dominions. — "Answered by the preceding "articles, and particularly by the last.
Page 513 - ... against the Queen. But it will be the only judgment you ever pronounced, which instead of reaching its object, will return and bound back upon those who give it. Save the country, my Lords, from the horrors of this catastrophe - save yourselves from this peril - rescue that country, of which you are the ornaments, but in which you can nourish no longer when severed from the people, than the blossom when cut off from the roots and the stem of the tree.
Page 302 - Britain ; and that in all matters of controversy relative to property and civil rights, resort shall be had to the. laws of Canada, as the rale for the decision of the same...
Page 449 - The truly great Have all one age, and from one visible space Shed influence ! They, both in power and act, Are permanent, and time is not with them, Save as it worketh for them, they in it.
Page 417 - A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet, no relief, In word, or sigh, or tear— 0 Lady!
Page 417 - ON the wide level of a mountain's head, (I knew not where, but 'twas some faery place) Their pinions, ostrich-like, for sails outspread, Two lovely children run an endless race, A sister and a brother...

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