The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen51A. Constable, 1830 |
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... never to be adopted , except in ' one or other of the following cases , -1st , Where one is com- ' pelled to it , to avoid a greater evil : 2d , Where the enemy , by leaving a great gap in their own line , leaves a large part of ' ours ...
... never to be adopted , except in ' one or other of the following cases , -1st , Where one is com- ' pelled to it , to avoid a greater evil : 2d , Where the enemy , by leaving a great gap in their own line , leaves a large part of ' ours ...
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... never once alluded to ; and plainly was never dreamed of as a means of accomplishing either of the two objects which these titles express . His only recipe for forcing on an action , is for each ship to mark her opponent in the enemy's ...
... never once alluded to ; and plainly was never dreamed of as a means of accomplishing either of the two objects which these titles express . His only recipe for forcing on an action , is for each ship to mark her opponent in the enemy's ...
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... never seen or heard of it . It is certain that he had no copy of it in his library ; and if it had been within his knowledge , we are convinced he would have mentioned it - not certainly as a source from which he had derived any ...
... never seen or heard of it . It is certain that he had no copy of it in his library ; and if it had been within his knowledge , we are convinced he would have mentioned it - not certainly as a source from which he had derived any ...
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... never to have turned his thoughts to such sub- jects , or to have entertained violent prejudices against the style in which it was conceived . Even this , however , we submit , is a weaker case than that with which we have now to deal ...
... never to have turned his thoughts to such sub- jects , or to have entertained violent prejudices against the style in which it was conceived . Even this , however , we submit , is a weaker case than that with which we have now to deal ...
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... never concealed the obligation he felt to the author of it . Before going out to take the command of the fleet in the West Indies , he said one day to Mr Dundas , afterwards Lord Melville , " There is one Clerk , a countryman of yours ...
... never concealed the obligation he felt to the author of it . Before going out to take the command of the fleet in the West Indies , he said one day to Mr Dundas , afterwards Lord Melville , " There is one Clerk , a countryman of yours ...
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Página 542 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Página 205 - Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heaven. What terrors round him wait ! Amazement in his van, with flight combined, And sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.
Página 199 - ... in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.
Página 502 - HERE LIES BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of Independence, Of the Statutes of Virginia, for religious freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia.
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Página 494 - I think we shall be so as long as agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case while there remain vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there.
Página 507 - My mornings are devoted to correspondence. From breakfast to dinner, I am in my shops, my garden, or on horseback among my farms ; from dinner to dark...
Página 507 - A part of my occupation, and by no means the least pleasing, is the direction of the studies of such young men as ask it. They place themselves in the neighboring village, and have the use of my library and counsel, and make a part of my society.