The Quarterly Review, Band 41John Murray, 1829 |
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... river , where it passes under the woody side of Latrigg , is of the finest and most rememberable kind . Ambiguo lapsu refluitque fluitque , Occurrensque sibi venturas aspicit undas . There is no English stream to which this truly ...
... river , where it passes under the woody side of Latrigg , is of the finest and most rememberable kind . Ambiguo lapsu refluitque fluitque , Occurrensque sibi venturas aspicit undas . There is no English stream to which this truly ...
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... rivers extensive cultivation commences at ten miles above their embou- chures . The steam - boat made her way up to the capital , but frequently grounded on her return , on account of the low state of the river . At Prome , which is ...
... rivers extensive cultivation commences at ten miles above their embou- chures . The steam - boat made her way up to the capital , but frequently grounded on her return , on account of the low state of the river . At Prome , which is ...
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... river , from whence it is sent by water - carriage to every part of the empire . Mr. Crawfurd endeavours to form an estimate of the popula- tion of the country , from the quantity of this oil consumed in burning ; but we think his data ...
... river , from whence it is sent by water - carriage to every part of the empire . Mr. Crawfurd endeavours to form an estimate of the popula- tion of the country , from the quantity of this oil consumed in burning ; but we think his data ...
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... rivers and lakes of Africa , ( query - in Sumatra ? ) and the mastodon being utterly extinct . There is , however , ' says Mr. Buckland , no greater anomaly in supposing that all these animals inhabited the Burmese country at the period ...
... rivers and lakes of Africa , ( query - in Sumatra ? ) and the mastodon being utterly extinct . There is , however , ' says Mr. Buckland , no greater anomaly in supposing that all these animals inhabited the Burmese country at the period ...
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... river , and that such a spectacle would not become the king's dignity . ' Again , the Burmese negociators would not enter the house of the ambassador to carry on the conferences , because no chief person must enter the house of an ...
... river , and that such a spectacle would not become the king's dignity . ' Again , the Burmese negociators would not enter the house of the ambassador to carry on the conferences , because no chief person must enter the house of an ...
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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...