The Quarterly Review, Volume 26John Murray, 1822 - English literature |
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... true , as he asserts , that there were crammed into each of these horrible ditches , ' from 600 to 900 prisoners ; ( the falsehood is apparent from his own previous state- ment , in which he made them from 800 to 1,200 ; ' ) and it is ...
... true , as he asserts , that there were crammed into each of these horrible ditches , ' from 600 to 900 prisoners ; ( the falsehood is apparent from his own previous state- ment , in which he made them from 800 to 1,200 ; ' ) and it is ...
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... true , as it has been stated on French official authority , that one third part of the whole population of Paris dies in its hospitals . This , indeed , is in some degree confirmed by a statement of M. Dupin on another occasion , -that ...
... true , as it has been stated on French official authority , that one third part of the whole population of Paris dies in its hospitals . This , indeed , is in some degree confirmed by a statement of M. Dupin on another occasion , -that ...
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... true picture of Napoleon's navy . To dazzle the eyes of the vulgar by the parade of numbers , they seemed to estimate our naval force by the enumeration of our masts and sails . The rapid increase of the matériel of our fleet was ...
... true picture of Napoleon's navy . To dazzle the eyes of the vulgar by the parade of numbers , they seemed to estimate our naval force by the enumeration of our masts and sails . The rapid increase of the matériel of our fleet was ...
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... true ; and can only be explained by the astonishment and confusion into which the Commander - in - Chief was thrown by a mode of attack so unusual , and which might have been fol- lowed by a different result , had the combined fleets ...
... true ; and can only be explained by the astonishment and confusion into which the Commander - in - Chief was thrown by a mode of attack so unusual , and which might have been fol- lowed by a different result , had the combined fleets ...
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... true , ) that when Lord St. Vincent commanded the fleet which blockaded Brest from the 27th May to the 26th September , 1800 , not a single day passed without his reconnoitring the entrance of the harbour ; and that , although the ...
... true , ) that when Lord St. Vincent commanded the fleet which blockaded Brest from the 27th May to the 26th September , 1800 , not a single day passed without his reconnoitring the entrance of the harbour ; and that , although the ...
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Page 167 - My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing ; And thine doth like an angel sit Beside the helm conducting it, Whilst all the winds with melody are ringing.
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Page 269 - An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures'.
Page 168 - We'll pass the eyes Of the starry skies Into the hoar deep to colonize : Death, Chaos, and Night, From the sound of our flight, Shall flee, like mist from a tempest's might. And Earth, Air, and Light, And the Spirit of Might, Which drives round the stars in their fiery flight ; And Love, Thought, and Breath, The powers that quell Death. Wherever we soar shall assemble beneath. And our singing shall build In the void's loose field A world for the Spirit of Wisdom to wield...
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Page 164 - And lovely apparitions — dim at first, Then radiant, as the mind arising bright From the embrace of beauty (whence the forms Of which these are the phantoms) casts on them The gathered rays which are reality — Shall visit us, the progeny immortal Of Painting, Sculpture, and rapt Poesy, And arts, though unimagined, yet to be...
Page 480 - It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking; and I could not avoid frequently using it.
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Page 410 - One measure of Wine shall be through our Realm, and one measure of Ale, and one measure of Corn, that is to say, the Quarter of London; and one breadth of dyed Cloth, Russets, and Haberjects, that is to say, two Yards within the lists. And it shall be of Weights as it is of Measures.