Monthly Review; Or New Literary JournalR. Griffiths., 1830 Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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... considered as an historical pieture , inasmuch as no historian had yet recorded the event of Wolfe's death ! Others objected that the officers and soldiers were not in their proper re- gimentals , that the General wore a pair of silk ...
... considered as an historical pieture , inasmuch as no historian had yet recorded the event of Wolfe's death ! Others objected that the officers and soldiers were not in their proper re- gimentals , that the General wore a pair of silk ...
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... considered only as an outer garment , containing in it parts belonging to the nature of a butterfly , which have grown under its defence by slow degrees , in like manner as other sensitive bodies increase by accretion . " But as these ...
... considered only as an outer garment , containing in it parts belonging to the nature of a butterfly , which have grown under its defence by slow degrees , in like manner as other sensitive bodies increase by accretion . " But as these ...
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... considered , that the whole miracle proceeded from himself , and was the result of his own keen perception . Some curious traits mark the weakness of Bunyan's imagination . Bunyan had formerly taken great delight in bell ringing ; but ...
... considered , that the whole miracle proceeded from himself , and was the result of his own keen perception . Some curious traits mark the weakness of Bunyan's imagination . Bunyan had formerly taken great delight in bell ringing ; but ...
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... considered , —abstracted from the mass of sophisms , with which this writer has encumbered them , -most powerfully con- tribute to confirm the positions - we had better say , the demonstra- tions of Mr. Malthus . The whole work of two ...
... considered , —abstracted from the mass of sophisms , with which this writer has encumbered them , -most powerfully con- tribute to confirm the positions - we had better say , the demonstra- tions of Mr. Malthus . The whole work of two ...
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... considered . We do not know that a more humane or wise system of treating the aborigines of a country could be contrived , than that which was embodied in the " Royal Instructions of Charles II . to the Council of Foreign Plantations ...
... considered . We do not know that a more humane or wise system of treating the aborigines of a country could be contrived , than that which was embodied in the " Royal Instructions of Charles II . to the Council of Foreign Plantations ...
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Seite 68 - Wherefore that here we may briefly end, of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world, all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Seite 54 - Poor child ! thought I, what sorrow art thou like to have for thy portion in this world ! Thou must be beaten ; must beg ; suffer hunger, cold, nakedness, and a thousand calamities, though I cannot now endure the wind should blow upon thee...
Seite 251 - She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind To comprehend the universe; nor these Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine, Pity, and smiles, and tears — which I had not; And tenderness — but that I had for her ; Humility — and that I never had. Her faults were mine — her virtues were her own — I loved her, and destroy'd her ! WITCH.
Seite 302 - I looked around me, and wondered that I was not more affected, but the mind is not at all times equally ready to be put in motion...
Seite 420 - I have been writing a ballad, my dear ; I am oppressing my heroine with many misfortunes. I have already sent her Jamie to sea, and broken her father's arm, and made her mother fall sick, and given her Auld Robin Gray for her lover ; but I wish to load her with a fifth sorrow within the four lines, poor thing ! Help me to one." — "Steal the cow, sister Anne,
Seite 537 - After the tower had proceeded some way, a pilgrim announced that he was ready to offer himself a sacrifice to the idol. He laid himself down in the road before the tower as it was moving along, lying on his face, with his arms stretched forwards.
Seite 312 - Yet if, as holiest men have deem'd, there be A land of souls beyond that sable shore, To shame the doctrine of the Sadducee And sophists, madly vain of dubious lore ; How sweet it were in concert to adore With those who made our mortal labours light ! To hear each voice we fear'd to hear no more ! Behold each mighty shade reveal'd to sight, The Bactrian, Samian sage, and all who taught the right ! IX.
Seite 300 - I was conducted to my apartment in a distant part of the building. I must own, that when I heard door after door shut, after my conductor had retired, I began to consider myself as too far from the living, and somewhat too near the dead. We had passed through what is called * the King's Hoom,' a vaulted apartment, garnished with stags...
Seite 53 - I tell thee, woman, seeing it is so that they have taken what thy husband spake for a conviction, thou must either apply thyself to the king, or sue out his pardon, or get a writ of error.
Seite 54 - I saw in this condition I was as a man who was pulling down his house upon the head of his wife and children ; yet thought I, I must do it, I must do it. And now I thought on those two milch kine that were to carry the ark of God into another country, to leave their calves behind them.