The Quarterly Review, Volumen63William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1839 |
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... doubt whether they are messengers descending to us from heaven , or spirits rising from the vasty deep on which we sail . In addition to these symbols , whose antiquity is coeval with creation , a modern hieroglyphic has now become one ...
... doubt whether they are messengers descending to us from heaven , or spirits rising from the vasty deep on which we sail . In addition to these symbols , whose antiquity is coeval with creation , a modern hieroglyphic has now become one ...
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... doubt many of our readers who have yet to re- ceive those commonplace impressions which are made upon the mind of the traveller when for the first time he sees and hears the engine , as from a point in advance on the railway it retro ...
... doubt many of our readers who have yet to re- ceive those commonplace impressions which are made upon the mind of the traveller when for the first time he sees and hears the engine , as from a point in advance on the railway it retro ...
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... doubt , if it be suicidal , it ought not to be continued . That death is everywhere - that he levels his shafts at the throne , the bench , and the cottage - that the rich and the poor , the brave and the timid , are alike the victims ...
... doubt , if it be suicidal , it ought not to be continued . That death is everywhere - that he levels his shafts at the throne , the bench , and the cottage - that the rich and the poor , the brave and the timid , are alike the victims ...
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... doubt whatever that , cæteris paribus , a locomotive engine must be less dangerous than four horses , because it is not liable to run away , tumble down , or shy at strange objects or noises- because it has no vice in it - because it is ...
... doubt whatever that , cæteris paribus , a locomotive engine must be less dangerous than four horses , because it is not liable to run away , tumble down , or shy at strange objects or noises- because it has no vice in it - because it is ...
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... doubt that , in proportion as the objections to living in it are removed , its population must increase . When a powder - magazine by exploding creates a vacuum in the atmosphere , the windows of the adjacent houses are not , as most ...
... doubt that , in proportion as the objections to living in it are removed , its population must increase . When a powder - magazine by exploding creates a vacuum in the atmosphere , the windows of the adjacent houses are not , as most ...
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Página 173 - ... the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from...
Página 315 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of...
Página 355 - Slave, I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think, there be six Richmonds in the field ; Five have I slain to-day, instead of him: — A horse ! a horse ! my kingdom for a horse ! [Exeunt.
Página 163 - Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb To chase these pagans in those holy fields Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross.
Página 174 - By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel ; and gave commandment concerning his bones.
Página 188 - Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night : ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Página 164 - LINDSAY'S LETTERS ON THE HOLY LAND. FOURTH EDITION, Revised, 1 vol., post 8vo, with Illustrations, 6s. bound. " Lord Lindsay has felt and recorded what he saw with the wisdom of a philosopher, and the faith of an enlightened Christian.
Página 387 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbour is a plain violation of this most sacred...
Página 176 - ... toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name : Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwellingplace, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.
Página 265 - But in these cases We still have judgment here ; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor ; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.