The North British Review, Bände 50-51Leonard Scott & Company, 1869 |
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... claims in his own country , 269 ; struck by paralysis in 1844 , ib .; the pension , 270 ; Sir William in his latter days , 270,271 ; his edition of Dugald Stew- art's Works , 271 ; unfinished literary labours , 271,272 ; last years ...
... claims in his own country , 269 ; struck by paralysis in 1844 , ib .; the pension , 270 ; Sir William in his latter days , 270,271 ; his edition of Dugald Stew- art's Works , 271 ; unfinished literary labours , 271,272 ; last years ...
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... claims to military skill . The man who planned and conducted this expedition was clearly above the ordinary calibre ... claim urged on their behalf to exercise military com- mands was at once set at rest by the simple official procedure ...
... claims to military skill . The man who planned and conducted this expedition was clearly above the ordinary calibre ... claim urged on their behalf to exercise military com- mands was at once set at rest by the simple official procedure ...
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... claims of the younger corps . The occasion which seems to have fired anew the zeal of Sir Francis , and to which we are indebted for this fresh work from his pen , may be said to be the Abyssinian ex - acterize his former works . Here ...
... claims of the younger corps . The occasion which seems to have fired anew the zeal of Sir Francis , and to which we are indebted for this fresh work from his pen , may be said to be the Abyssinian ex - acterize his former works . Here ...
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... claims in the back - ent . ground . But although thus denied an opportunity of showing their fitness for every branch of a soldier's duties in any campaign in which British troops have been engaged in Europe , officers of engineers have ...
... claims in the back - ent . ground . But although thus denied an opportunity of showing their fitness for every branch of a soldier's duties in any campaign in which British troops have been engaged in Europe , officers of engineers have ...
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... claims of the Royal long on him without regard to any other Artillery and Royal Engineers , in which this principle of war than that of securing success . systems does not obtain , may possibly be re- In arms , as in all things ...
... claims of the Royal long on him without regard to any other Artillery and Royal Engineers , in which this principle of war than that of securing success . systems does not obtain , may possibly be re- In arms , as in all things ...
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Seite 36 - My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery. But I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and goodwill of my subjects...
Seite 48 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Seite 37 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Seite 50 - But what I have most at Heart is, that some Method should be thought on for ascertaining and fixing our Language for ever, after such Alterations are made in it as shall be thought requisite.
Seite 251 - Memoir of Sir William Hamilton, Bart., Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. By Professor VEITCH of the University of Glasgow. 8vo, with Portrait, 18s.
Seite 84 - Company, and their successors, the sole trade and commerce of all those seas, straits, bays, rivers, lakes, creeks and sounds, in whatsoever latitude they shall be, that lie within the entrance of the straits commonly called Hudson's Straits, together with all the lands and territories upon the countries, coasts, and confines of the seas, bays, lakes, rivers, creeks, and sounds aforesaid, that are not already actually possessed by or granted to any of our subjects, or possessed by the subjects of...
Seite 41 - ... who corrupt our English idiom, by mixing it too much with French : That is a sophistication of language, not an improvement of it ; a turning English into French, rather than a refining of English by French. We meet daily with those fops, who value themselves on their travelling, and pretend they cannot express their meaning in English, because they would put off* to us some French phrase of the last edition ; without considering, that, for aught they know, we have a better of our own.
Seite 63 - The memory of the dead passes into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words.
Seite 217 - Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness ; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends...
Seite 49 - Yet this sentiment is weakened by the name of an instrument used by butchers and cooks in the meanest employments ; we do not immediately conceive that any crime of importance is to be committed with a knife ; or who does not, at last, from the long habit of connecting a knife with sordid offices, feel aversion rather than terror?