The Edinburgh Monthly Review, Volume 5Waugh and Innes, 1821 |
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... readers some of the reflections which have occurred to us upon the present state of the country . It is but too certain , that a change has of late years been rapidly working in the political temperament of the mass of the people ...
... readers some of the reflections which have occurred to us upon the present state of the country . It is but too certain , that a change has of late years been rapidly working in the political temperament of the mass of the people ...
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... readers some account of the internal political state of a country , the movements of which , situated as it is in the very heart of the great European commonwealth , cannot be con- templated by its neighbours without considerable ...
... readers some account of the internal political state of a country , the movements of which , situated as it is in the very heart of the great European commonwealth , cannot be con- templated by its neighbours without considerable ...
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... readers - he says nothing , or next to nothing , of the means by which his views , supposing them to be prac- ticable , may be most safely and effectually realized - nothing of the difficulties which stand in the way of their ...
... readers - he says nothing , or next to nothing , of the means by which his views , supposing them to be prac- ticable , may be most safely and effectually realized - nothing of the difficulties which stand in the way of their ...
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... readers have probably heard of the turbulent spirit which manifested itself in some of the German universities - of ... reading and attainments . M. Görres enters no farther into the details of this theoretical constitution ; he says not ...
... readers have probably heard of the turbulent spirit which manifested itself in some of the German universities - of ... reading and attainments . M. Görres enters no farther into the details of this theoretical constitution ; he says not ...
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... readers may well stare at this ; but we have translated the passage verbatim from the original ; and when we assure them that the greater part of the volume is written in precisely the same style , we have no doubt they will sympathize ...
... readers may well stare at this ; but we have translated the passage verbatim from the original ; and when we assure them that the greater part of the volume is written in precisely the same style , we have no doubt they will sympathize ...
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Page 183 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper.
Page 415 - But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring ; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 415 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And -we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 246 - The parties broke up without noise and without confusion. They were carried home by their own carriages; that is to say, by the vehicles Nature had provided them, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon.
Page 182 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell — and George the Third — [" Treason " cried the Speaker ; " treason ! treason ! " echoed from every part of the house.
Page 243 - ... philosopher; for his mind was either elevated above, or tranquilly settled below, the cares and perplexities of this world. He had lived in it for years, without feeling the least curiosity to know whether the sun revolved round it, or it round the sun; and he had watched, for at least half a century, the smoke curling from his pipe to the ceiling, without once troubling his head with any of those numerous theories by which a philosopher would have perplexed his brain, in accounting for its rising...
Page 245 - New Amsterdam, for the people immediately perceived that they had a very wise and equitable magistrate to rule over them. But its happiest effect was, that not another lawsuit took place throughout the whole of his administration; and the office of constable fell into such decay, that there was not one of those losel scouts known in the province for many years. I am the more particular in dwelling on this transaction, not only because I deem it one of the most sage and righteous judgments on record,...
Page 415 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little hell reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him...
Page 183 - I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all. At this sermon there was also one of our club, who, being of my sentiments respecting the building in Georgia, and suspecting a collection might be intended, had by precaution emptied his pockets before he came from home.
Page 243 - ... theories by which a philosopher would have perplexed his brain, in accounting for its rising above the surrounding atmosphere. " In his council he presided with great state and solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced Timmerman of Amsterdam, and curiously carved about the arms and feet into exact imitations of gigantic eagle's claws.