The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 80A. Constable, 1844 |
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... common friends . Of the easiness with which such things sat upon him , you may judge from the following circumstance , which I have heard him more than once relate . Sir Charles was telling a large ' company a similar story to that of ...
... common friends . Of the easiness with which such things sat upon him , you may judge from the following circumstance , which I have heard him more than once relate . Sir Charles was telling a large ' company a similar story to that of ...
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... common consent the best whist - player of his day ; and an old gentleman nicknamed Neptune , from his having once flung himself into the sea in a fit of despair at being , as he thought , ruined . He was fished out in time , found he ...
... common consent the best whist - player of his day ; and an old gentleman nicknamed Neptune , from his having once flung himself into the sea in a fit of despair at being , as he thought , ruined . He was fished out in time , found he ...
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... common decency ; and Mr Jesse has exposed himself to much censure by printing them . We are also obliged to omit many passages from the letters of Lord Holland , Miss Townshend , Mr Storer , the Dowager Lady Carlisle , and Lady Sarah ...
... common decency ; and Mr Jesse has exposed himself to much censure by printing them . We are also obliged to omit many passages from the letters of Lord Holland , Miss Townshend , Mr Storer , the Dowager Lady Carlisle , and Lady Sarah ...
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... common with other travellers , where Abyssinians have treacherously mutilated their own servants or relations , in order to be able to show the bloody badge of triumph . A monster of this description was publicly executed by order of ...
... common with other travellers , where Abyssinians have treacherously mutilated their own servants or relations , in order to be able to show the bloody badge of triumph . A monster of this description was publicly executed by order of ...
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... common report may be believed , through underhand agents . We have purposely abstained from discussing the co- pious subject of French intrigue in Eastern Africa . Major Harris , indeed , has afforded us no opportunity . The gallant ...
... common report may be believed , through underhand agents . We have purposely abstained from discussing the co- pious subject of French intrigue in Eastern Africa . Major Harris , indeed , has afforded us no opportunity . The gallant ...
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Seite 274 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Seite 323 - The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper, is faith.
Seite 20 - Blair's Chronological and Historical Tables, from the Creation to the Present Time : With Additions and Corrections from the most authentic Writers ; including the Computation of St. Paul, as connecting the Period from the Exode to the Temple.
Seite 468 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Seite 15 - When we got to Temple Bar he stopped me, pointed to the heads upon it, and slily whispered me, ' Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur ISTIS.
Seite 19 - LAING.— THE CHRONICLE OF THE KINGS OF NORWAY, From the Earliest Period of the History of the Northern Sea Kings to the Middle of the Twelfth Century, commonly called The Heimskringla. Translated from the Icelandic of Snorro Sturleson, with Notes, and a Preliminary Discourse, by SAMUEL LAINO, Author of " Notes of a Traveller,
Seite 313 - When I mention religion, I mean the Christian religion ; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion ; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
Seite 149 - A GLACIER is AN IMPERFECT FLUID, OR A VISCOUS BODY. WHICH IS URGED DOWN SLOPES OF A CERTAIN INCLINATION BY THE MUTUAL PRESSURE OF ITS PARTS.
Seite 135 - The Glacier's cold and restless mass Moves onward day by day ; But I am he who bids it pass, Or with its ice delay.