The Quarterly Review, Volumen56William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, Sir John Murray IV, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1836 |
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... command or capture of fortresses naturally suggested the towers , battlements , keys , portcullises , and battering - rams seen on many escutcheons . One of the most singular bearings in existence is that of the ancient family of ...
... command or capture of fortresses naturally suggested the towers , battlements , keys , portcullises , and battering - rams seen on many escutcheons . One of the most singular bearings in existence is that of the ancient family of ...
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... commands , she does go to a ball , she mortally offends him by not having danced - and above all , by having worn an unfashionable gown which - covered her shoulders and neck . Such unreasonable scruples in the mother of several ...
... commands , she does go to a ball , she mortally offends him by not having danced - and above all , by having worn an unfashionable gown which - covered her shoulders and neck . Such unreasonable scruples in the mother of several ...
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... command in the West Indies , is captured by a pirate - who with the most cold- blooded atrocity murders all his captives , and is about to conclude with the old officer himself , when in the pirate's bold and beautiful mistress he ...
... command in the West Indies , is captured by a pirate - who with the most cold- blooded atrocity murders all his captives , and is about to conclude with the old officer himself , when in the pirate's bold and beautiful mistress he ...
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... commands . We were grateful to Providence for the change , and we rejoiced in an alliance , the basis of which was the assertion of national independence against the intolerable pretensions of insatiable and unsparing ambition ...
... commands . We were grateful to Providence for the change , and we rejoiced in an alliance , the basis of which was the assertion of national independence against the intolerable pretensions of insatiable and unsparing ambition ...
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... command even of an adjutant - major , take up twenty different positions in the course of a day ? And have our troops become like des levées en masse , which must be placed a fortnight beforehand in the positions in which it is intended ...
... command even of an adjutant - major , take up twenty different positions in the course of a day ? And have our troops become like des levées en masse , which must be placed a fortnight beforehand in the positions in which it is intended ...
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Página 88 - I thus, Sir, showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them...
Página 52 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Página 229 - ... whomsoever they find to be most licentious of life, most bold and lawless in his doings, most dangerous and desperate in all parts of disobedience and rebellious disposition, him they set up and glorify in their rhymes, him they praise to the people, and to young men make an example to follow.
Página 288 - Thlew-ee-choh, which, after a violent and tortuous course of five hundred and thirty geographical miles, running through an iron-ribbed country without a single tree on the whole line of its banks, expanding into fine large lakes with clear horizons, most embarrassing to the navigator, and broken into falls, cascades, and rapids, to the number of no less than eighty-three in the whole, pours its waters into the Polar Sea in latitude 67° 1 1' 00'i N., and longitude 94° 30' 0
Página 28 - London, and walking up the street, he observed a new sign hanging out with these arms thereon, and inquired what inn that was that had hung out these arms of Scrope...
Página 284 - LORD, by whom we escape death. 21 GOD shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his wickedness. 22 The LORD hath said, I will bring my people again, as I did from Basan, mine own will I bring again, as I did sometime from the deep of the sea.
Página 198 - On the right of the position they were repulsed by the bayonets of the 97th regiment, which corps was successfully supported by the 2d battalion 52d regiment, which, by an advance in column, took the enemy in flank.
Página 64 - The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms, with which the galleries of these instructive coal mines are overhung.
Página 490 - Made visionary fabrics round them rise, And airy spectres skim before their eyes ; Of talismans and sigils knew the power, And careful watch'd the planetary hour. Superior, and alone, Confucius stood, Who taught that useful science, to be good.