The Quarterly Review, Band 41John Murray, 1829 |
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... whole , no land- lords like the monks . They received of the fruits , ' which was in those days a much more convenient mode of payment than money . They They lived constantly amongst their people , strewing where they 14 Southey's ...
... whole , no land- lords like the monks . They received of the fruits , ' which was in those days a much more convenient mode of payment than money . They They lived constantly amongst their people , strewing where they 14 Southey's ...
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... whole of Europe were at stake . This good is paramount to all other considerations . Men act as they deem best for their own interest , with more or less selfishness , but always , upon the great scale , having that object in view ; and ...
... whole of Europe were at stake . This good is paramount to all other considerations . Men act as they deem best for their own interest , with more or less selfishness , but always , upon the great scale , having that object in view ; and ...
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... whole bank of the river was lined with small trading vessels ; and larger patches of ground were under rice - cultivation than had hitherto been observed . As the party proceeded towards the capital , the cultivation became somewhat ...
... whole bank of the river was lined with small trading vessels ; and larger patches of ground were under rice - cultivation than had hitherto been observed . As the party proceeded towards the capital , the cultivation became somewhat ...
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... whole annual produce of these wells at 56,940,000 vis , which , on the same grounds of calculation , would afford a population of 6,959,331 souls . We are at a loss to understand what Mr. Crawfurd means , in alluding to this calculation ...
... whole annual produce of these wells at 56,940,000 vis , which , on the same grounds of calculation , would afford a population of 6,959,331 souls . We are at a loss to understand what Mr. Crawfurd means , in alluding to this calculation ...
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... whole of that por tion of the world which lies towards the setting sun . The same glorious sun enlightens the one and the other . Thus may peace , continue between the two countries , and for ever impart mutual blessings to both . Let ...
... whole of that por tion of the world which lies towards the setting sun . The same glorious sun enlightens the one and the other . Thus may peace , continue between the two countries , and for ever impart mutual blessings to both . Let ...
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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...