The Quarterly Review, Band 42William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1830 |
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... Admiral Sir Charles Douglas ; but which , while living , from all we perceive and can learn , Sir Charles himself uniformly disavowed ; indeed , Sir Howard himself tells us , he is sure his father's spirit would not approve of his ...
... Admiral Sir Charles Douglas ; but which , while living , from all we perceive and can learn , Sir Charles himself uniformly disavowed ; indeed , Sir Howard himself tells us , he is sure his father's spirit would not approve of his ...
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... Admiral Sir James Saumarez , who commanded the Russell ; Admiral Knight , captain of the Barfleur , bearing the flag of Sir Samuel Hood ; Sir Joseph Yorke , then a midshipman of the Formidable , not fourteen years of age ; Captain Sir ...
... Admiral Sir James Saumarez , who commanded the Russell ; Admiral Knight , captain of the Barfleur , bearing the flag of Sir Samuel Hood ; Sir Joseph Yorke , then a midshipman of the Formidable , not fourteen years of age ; Captain Sir ...
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... admiral who was now preparing to take the com- mand of the fleet in the West Indies . A more direct channel of com- munication was the late Sir Charles Douglas , who went out several months after the admiral , in order to serve as his ...
... admiral who was now preparing to take the com- mand of the fleet in the West Indies . A more direct channel of com- munication was the late Sir Charles Douglas , who went out several months after the admiral , in order to serve as his ...
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... admiral , before his mental powers were sinking . And , after all , is it quite certain that , granting Lord Haddington's story to be correctly reported , the interpretation put on it by Mr. Playfair must be accepted ? We rather think ...
... admiral , before his mental powers were sinking . And , after all , is it quite certain that , granting Lord Haddington's story to be correctly reported , the interpretation put on it by Mr. Playfair must be accepted ? We rather think ...
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... Admiral Rodney or any of his predecessors ; and as it was the first instance in which a British admiral had ventured to de- viate from the old practice , I could not help immediately ascribing it to the communications I had made to Mr ...
... Admiral Rodney or any of his predecessors ; and as it was the first instance in which a British admiral had ventured to de- viate from the old practice , I could not help immediately ascribing it to the communications I had made to Mr ...
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Seite 18 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Seite 140 - Foundations lie In veneration and the People's love; Whose steps are equity, whose seat is law. — Hail to the State of England! And conjoin With this a salutation as devout, Made to the spiritual Fabric of her Church; Founded in truth; by blood of Martyrdom Cemented; by the hands of Wisdom reared In beauty of Holiness, with ordered pomp, Decent, and unreproved.
Seite 42 - According to the tradition of his companions, Mahomet was distinguished by the beauty of his person, an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. Before he spoke, the orator engaged on his side the affections of a public or private audience. They applauded his commanding presence, his majestic aspect, his piercing eye, his gracious smile, his flowing beard, his countenance that painted every sensation of the soul, and his gestures that enforced each expression...
Seite 315 - First, he laid it down as a principle never to be departed from, that every part of the British dominions ought to possess a government, in the constitution of which, monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, were mutually blended and united...
Seite 132 - From the united considerations of religion and constitutional policy, from their opinion of a duty to make a sure provision for the consolation of the feeble and the instruction of the ignorant, they have incorporated and identified the estate of the church with the mass of private property, of which the state is not the proprietor, either for use or dominion, but the guardian only and the regulator.
Seite 10 - ... flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire sufficeth for life, great flames seemed too little after death, while men vainly affected precious pyres and to burn like Sardanapalus ; but the wisdom of funeral laws...
Seite 271 - Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods ! When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was famed with more than with one man?
Seite 158 - A country which neglects or despises foreign commerce, and which admits the vessels of foreign nations into one or two of its ports only, cannot transact the same quantity of business which it might do with different laws and institutions.
Seite 327 - Abroad in arms, at home in studious kind, Who seeks with painful toil shall Honour soonest find " In woods, in waves, in wars, she wonts to dwell, And will be found with peril and with pain, Ne can the man that moulds in idle ceU Unto her happy mansion attain ; Before her gate high God did Sweat ordain...
Seite 498 - ... of the First Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that they are not making a considerable sacrifice, adverting especially to the Bank of Ireland remaining in possession of that privilege five years longer than the Bank of England.