The Quarterly Review, Band 41John Murray, 1829 |
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... produced . There would be more diffi- culty in making social worship retain , or rather resume , its proper character and uses ; the effect at present , both at schools and univer- sities , being to deaden the instinct of piety ...
... produced . There would be more diffi- culty in making social worship retain , or rather resume , its proper character and uses ; the effect at present , both at schools and univer- sities , being to deaden the instinct of piety ...
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... produce a soothing one when we are advanced in life . The root of an ash tree , on the bank which bends round the little bay , had been half bared by the waters during one of the winter floods , and afforded a commodious resting - place ...
... produce a soothing one when we are advanced in life . The root of an ash tree , on the bank which bends round the little bay , had been half bared by the waters during one of the winter floods , and afforded a commodious resting - place ...
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... produce being indigo , sesamum , Indian hemp ( crotollaria juncea ) , and rice . At Melloon , the number of temples seemed to exceed the num- ber of dwellings , which is not unusual in the Burman towns and villages . The former are as ...
... produce being indigo , sesamum , Indian hemp ( crotollaria juncea ) , and rice . At Melloon , the number of temples seemed to exceed the num- ber of dwellings , which is not unusual in the Burman towns and villages . The former are as ...
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... produce of the wells , he makes the consumers of petroleum for burning amount to 2,066,721 . Now Captain Cox , who followed Colonel Symes , estimated the whole annual produce of these wells at 56,940,000 vis , which , on the same ...
... produce of the wells , he makes the consumers of petroleum for burning amount to 2,066,721 . Now Captain Cox , who followed Colonel Symes , estimated the whole annual produce of these wells at 56,940,000 vis , which , on the same ...
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... their more enlightened neighbours the Chinese , they cunningly contrived their measures so as to produce the effect of degrading the am- bassador bassador and his suite in the eyes of the native 38 Crawfurd's Embassy to Ava .
... their more enlightened neighbours the Chinese , they cunningly contrived their measures so as to produce the effect of degrading the am- bassador bassador and his suite in the eyes of the native 38 Crawfurd's Embassy to Ava .
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Seite 17 - The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry ; Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast...
Seite 136 - Iberos veteres traiecisse easque sedes occupasse fidem faciunt. Proximi Gallis et similes sunt, seu durante originis vi, seu procurrentibus in diversa terris positio coeli corporibus habitum dedit.
Seite 240 - God wot! not contenting themselves with the yearly revenues and profits that were wont to grow to their forefathers and predecessors of their lands, nor being content that they live in rest and pleasure — nothing profiting, yea, much annoying the weal publick — leave no ground for tillage; they enclose all into pastures, they throw down houses, they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing but only the church to be made a sheephouse.
Seite 240 - I) your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up, and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities.
Seite 284 - MAWE'S (HL) Journal of a Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, crossing the Andes in the Northern Provinces of Peru, and descending the great River Maranon.
Seite 296 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Seite 447 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Seite 299 - POETRY, written at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries...
Seite 291 - Twere almost sacrilege to sing Those notes amid the glare of day ; Notes borne by angels' purest wing, And wafted by their breath away. When, sleeping in my grass-grown bed, Shouldst thou still linger here above, Wilt thou not kneel beside my head, And, sister, sing the song I love?
Seite 290 - WHEN evening spreads her shades around, And darkness fills the arch of heaven , When not a murmur, not a sound To Fancy's sportive ear is given; When the broad orb of heaven is bright, And looks around with golden eye; When Nature...