The Anti-Gallican, Or, Standard of British Loyalty, Religion, and Liberty, Volumen1Vernor and Hood, and J. Asperne, 1803 |
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... LAND , it becomes no less the INTEREST , than the DUTY , of every Englishman , to lend his aid in rescuing his Country from the impending danger . The storm excited by the most imperious of our foes , is driven onward with a celerity ...
... LAND , it becomes no less the INTEREST , than the DUTY , of every Englishman , to lend his aid in rescuing his Country from the impending danger . The storm excited by the most imperious of our foes , is driven onward with a celerity ...
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... land flowing with milk and honey , is at the will of the proud Conqueror , to become to its inhabitants , a scene of desolation and of bitterness , Britons ! the Danger is imminent . The ferocious bands of Gaul have been too long ...
... land flowing with milk and honey , is at the will of the proud Conqueror , to become to its inhabitants , a scene of desolation and of bitterness , Britons ! the Danger is imminent . The ferocious bands of Gaul have been too long ...
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... land . They view it like so many famished wolves , cruel as death and hungry as the grave , panting for an opportunity , at any risk , to come into our sheepfold ; -but , if they should , is it not our business , our first duty , to ...
... land . They view it like so many famished wolves , cruel as death and hungry as the grave , panting for an opportunity , at any risk , to come into our sheepfold ; -but , if they should , is it not our business , our first duty , to ...
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... land as by sea ; until she can defy the haughty foe , if there was even a bridge between Calais and Dover , and that bridge in possession of the enemy ; till she can say in the language of a good English boxing match , " a fair field ...
... land as by sea ; until she can defy the haughty foe , if there was even a bridge between Calais and Dover , and that bridge in possession of the enemy ; till she can say in the language of a good English boxing match , " a fair field ...
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... land.— Let us consider the crisis - We live in times teeming with events of such pro- digious magnitude , that they seem to laugh to scorn all that we used to call important in our former history . Let us not deceive ourselves . danger ...
... land.— Let us consider the crisis - We live in times teeming with events of such pro- digious magnitude , that they seem to laugh to scorn all that we used to call important in our former history . Let us not deceive ourselves . danger ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 47 - Have in these parts from morn till even fought, And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument. Dishonour not your mothers; now attest That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you. Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war. And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England...
Página 175 - Nor e'en thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail • To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears...
Página 47 - And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture ; let us swear That you are worth your breeding : which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,* Straining upon the start. The game's afoot ; Follow your spirit : and, upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry ! England ! and Saint George ! [Exeunt . Alarum, and Chambers go off.
Página 103 - We know that -we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality ; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as they will be after the grave has heaped its mould upon our presumption, and the silent tomb shall have imposed its law on our pert loquacity.
Página 181 - I demand of your lordship, the justice of believing me to be with the greatest respect, My Lord, Your lordship's most obedient, and most obliged humble servant, JON.
Página 176 - Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries — No more I weep ; They do not sleep ; On yonder cliffs, a grisly band, I see them sit ; They linger yet, Avengers of their native land : With me in dreadful harmony they join, And weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line.
Página 103 - Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency ; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit : and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
Página 103 - Because when such ideas are brought before our minds, it is natural to be so affected; because all other feelings are false and spurious and tend to corrupt our minds, to vitiate our primary morals, to render us unfit for rational liberty, and, by teaching us a servile, licentious, and abandoned insolence, to be our low sport for a few holidays, to make us perfectly fit for and justly deserving of slavery through the whole course of our lives.
Página 233 - Shall hang as high's the steeple ; But while we sing, ' God save the King,' We'll ne'er forget the People.
Página 47 - Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war! — And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding : which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and, upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England! and saint George ! [Exeunt.