The United Service Magazine, Volume 72H. Colburn, 1853 - Military art and science |
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Page 10 - tis to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yon' tall, anchoring bark, Diminished to her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight.
Page 16 - How divine, The liberty, for frail, for mortal, man To roam at large among unpeopled glens And mountainous retirements, only trod By devious footsteps ; regions consecrate To oldest time ! and, reckless of the storm That keeps the raven quiet in her nest, Be as a presence or a motion — one Among the many there...
Page 6 - ... that heard it. Besides this, at dark night, the sea seemed to be a light fire, and to burn, and the waves to beat with one another, insomuch that it was past the mariners...
Page 333 - Bonaparte has accepted the terms offered by the Allies for his future existence, and that of his family, I cannot resist offering my humble congratulations that the tragedy which has desolated Europe has come to a close, and that the exit of the individual from the stage where he has so long exhibited, should be marked by that degradation which his career has so deservedly entailed upon him. Almighty God has been pleased to teach the nations of the world a lesson which future ages will record, and...
Page 481 - I was not asked to make out a case for Sir Hudson Lowe, nor, had I been asked to do so, would I have consented. I regarded the duty of examining the papers left by him as a solemn trust, for the due and truthful discharge of which I was responsible to the public, and a still more searching tribunal, my own conscience : Amicus Socrates, amicus Plato, sed magis arnica Veritas.
Page 487 - He stood as before and made no reply. " Observing his silence continue, I again commenced by saying, ' I have conceived, Sir, that possibly the addition of two or three good rooms — deux ou trois salons — to your present house, with other improvements to it, K 2 might add to your convenience in less time than by constructing a new building.
Page 481 - You shall well and truly try the issue between the parties, and a true verdict give, according to the evidence, so help you God ;" and the juror kisses the New Testament.
Page 314 - Roman masters who had enervated while they protected them, and exposed to the ravages of Picts and Scots from the extreme and barbarous portions of the island, called in the assistance of heathen Saxons from the continent of Europe. The strangers faithfully performed their task, and chastised the Northern invaders ; then, in scorn of the weakness of their employers, subjected them in turn to the yoke, and after various vicissitudes of fortune, established their own power upon the ruins of Roman and...
Page 332 - He has a personal feeling about Paris, distinct from all political or military combinations. He seems to seek for the occasion of entering with his magnificent guards the enemy's capital, probably to display, in his clemency and forbearance, a contrast to that desolation to which his own was devoted. The idea that a rapid negociation might disappoint this hope added to his impatience.
Page 485 - Here there is little wood, except that of the gumtree, which aflbrds scanty shade, and on every side frown masses of dark rock, the summits of which are clothed with the cabbage-tree and a gigantic species of fern. " Each purple peak, each flinty spire. Is bathed in floods of living fire ; But not a setting beam can glow Within the dark ravines below.