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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... shillings an acre , good land may be purchased , capable of growing wheat , buckwheat , barley , oats , maize , rye , turnips , potatoes , & c . I had seen the facility with which the countrymen wielded the axe , and had been surprised ...
... shillings an acre , good land may be purchased , capable of growing wheat , buckwheat , barley , oats , maize , rye , turnips , potatoes , & c . I had seen the facility with which the countrymen wielded the axe , and had been surprised ...
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... shillings amongst them ; those families were increased five - fold in the course of five years , for they wrote home to their friends , saying how comfortably they were placed , and those friends then raised heaven and earth ' to join ...
... shillings amongst them ; those families were increased five - fold in the course of five years , for they wrote home to their friends , saying how comfortably they were placed , and those friends then raised heaven and earth ' to join ...
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... shillings was the sum which he agreed to pay ; for rather less distance , and in a better country , he had been cheated into the payment of four pounds at Anna- polis . The snow was so deep , the roads so partially broken , ' and the ...
... shillings was the sum which he agreed to pay ; for rather less distance , and in a better country , he had been cheated into the payment of four pounds at Anna- polis . The snow was so deep , the roads so partially broken , ' and the ...
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... shillings ; the canoe was nothing more than some fifteen feet of an entire tree , rounded at both ends alike , and hollowed by the adze . Six boatmen , each with an axe in his sash , and a paddle in his hand , dragged it from the shore ...
... shillings ; the canoe was nothing more than some fifteen feet of an entire tree , rounded at both ends alike , and hollowed by the adze . Six boatmen , each with an axe in his sash , and a paddle in his hand , dragged it from the shore ...
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... shillings were certainly fairly earned , for they were three or four minutes at this spell in the water , sometimes up to their knees , and now and then nearly up to their middle . It seems almost incre- dible that men should be able to ...
... shillings were certainly fairly earned , for they were three or four minutes at this spell in the water , sometimes up to their knees , and now and then nearly up to their middle . It seems almost incre- dible that men should be able to ...
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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.