The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen51A. Constable, 1830 |
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... spirit or genius , than it is a ground for surmising that he had never before heard of the project of cutting the ene- my's line , or was not aware of any of its advantages . If that had truly been the case , -if , up to that moment ...
... spirit or genius , than it is a ground for surmising that he had never before heard of the project of cutting the ene- my's line , or was not aware of any of its advantages . If that had truly been the case , -if , up to that moment ...
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... spirit has subsided , and the parties themselves are nearly confounded and lost , additions are daily making to the mass which is already collected . It would be unreasonable to expect , that recent discoveries should supply facts ...
... spirit has subsided , and the parties themselves are nearly confounded and lost , additions are daily making to the mass which is already collected . It would be unreasonable to expect , that recent discoveries should supply facts ...
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... spirits , not only of our sojours , ' but of many of our officers also . ' Having remained two years in Ireland , where he got no more than what maintained ' him , he came to Scotland , whence , after some stay , he repaired to ...
... spirits , not only of our sojours , ' but of many of our officers also . ' Having remained two years in Ireland , where he got no more than what maintained ' him , he came to Scotland , whence , after some stay , he repaired to ...
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... spirit and attachment to her hus- band during his imprisonment and exile ; and the affectionate tributes paid to her worth , in the course of his Memoirs , exhibit one of the most amiable traits in the character of Sir James Turner ...
... spirit and attachment to her hus- band during his imprisonment and exile ; and the affectionate tributes paid to her worth , in the course of his Memoirs , exhibit one of the most amiable traits in the character of Sir James Turner ...
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... spirit and sentiments not previously evinced by Episcopalians either in Scotland or England . We have occasionally looked into Sir James's literary effu- sions , of which a list is given at the beginning of the Memoirs ; comprehending ...
... spirit and sentiments not previously evinced by Episcopalians either in Scotland or England . We have occasionally looked into Sir James's literary effu- sions , of which a list is given at the beginning of the Memoirs ; comprehending ...
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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.
Página 505 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory.
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.