The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 80A. Constable, 1844 |
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... successful player , remarked— See how he is robbing the mail ! ' 6 On another occasion , in 1756 , observing Mr Ponsonby , the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons , tossing about bank- bills at a hazard - table at Newmarket Look how ...
... successful player , remarked— See how he is robbing the mail ! ' 6 On another occasion , in 1756 , observing Mr Ponsonby , the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons , tossing about bank- bills at a hazard - table at Newmarket Look how ...
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... successful in getting the better of a still more fatal one for play . Letter after letter is filled with good resolu tions , but the fascination was too strong . The blow came at last . July 1776 . ' MY DEAR GEORGE , I have undone ...
... successful in getting the better of a still more fatal one for play . Letter after letter is filled with good resolu tions , but the fascination was too strong . The blow came at last . July 1776 . ' MY DEAR GEORGE , I have undone ...
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... successful . During several years , every thing that any body had to lose and cared to risk , was swallowed up . Le Wellington des Joueurs lost L.23,000 at a sitting , beginning at twelve at night , and ending at seven the following ...
... successful . During several years , every thing that any body had to lose and cared to risk , was swallowed up . Le Wellington des Joueurs lost L.23,000 at a sitting , beginning at twelve at night , and ending at seven the following ...
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... success . Why does not the police interfere ? If the police cannot , why does not the legislature ? Not an hour should be lost in putting down this monstrous evil . We claim to be superior in morals and public order to the French ; yet ...
... success . Why does not the police interfere ? If the police cannot , why does not the legislature ? Not an hour should be lost in putting down this monstrous evil . We claim to be superior in morals and public order to the French ; yet ...
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... success , and is overthrown by a defeat - are Ras Ali , who governs in the name of the dethroned descendants of ... successful in his foreign affairs . He has fright- ened or brought over most of the powerful Galla chieftains 50 July ...
... success , and is overthrown by a defeat - are Ras Ali , who governs in the name of the dethroned descendants of ... successful in his foreign affairs . He has fright- ened or brought over most of the powerful Galla chieftains 50 July ...
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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.