The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 116A. Constable, 1862 |
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... brought to the very door , they were , at all events , near enough to relieve the colonists from serious apprehensions . Flocks and herds had increased with extraordinary rapidity , and all the available districts had already been taken ...
... brought to the very door , they were , at all events , near enough to relieve the colonists from serious apprehensions . Flocks and herds had increased with extraordinary rapidity , and all the available districts had already been taken ...
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... brought to a close , Count Strzelecki entered on an examination of these ranges , which extended over several years , and entailed an immense amount of labour and hardship . The various summits of the chain within the two colonies of ...
... brought to a close , Count Strzelecki entered on an examination of these ranges , which extended over several years , and entailed an immense amount of labour and hardship . The various summits of the chain within the two colonies of ...
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... brought out a number of hired labourers to found a colony on the banks of the Swan River . All the elements of wealth were in abundance . The capitalists , in addition to labour , brought with them supplies of everything necessary for ...
... brought out a number of hired labourers to found a colony on the banks of the Swan River . All the elements of wealth were in abundance . The capitalists , in addition to labour , brought with them supplies of everything necessary for ...
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... brought on more threatening symptoms , and with the advice of his companions , he abandoned further advance . On his return to Hanover Bay he was received on board the Beagle , ' luckily then off the coast , and sailed thence to the ...
... brought on more threatening symptoms , and with the advice of his companions , he abandoned further advance . On his return to Hanover Bay he was received on board the Beagle , ' luckily then off the coast , and sailed thence to the ...
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... brought to a practical issue . After much debate , the attempt to form a junction with the VOL . CXVI . NO . CCXXXV . C western settlement was abandoned ; and an expedition , called 1862 . 17 The Explorers of Australia .
... brought to a practical issue . After much debate , the attempt to form a junction with the VOL . CXVI . NO . CCXXXV . C western settlement was abandoned ; and an expedition , called 1862 . 17 The Explorers of Australia .
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Page 389 - Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written; Which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Page 552 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
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Page 552 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was.
Page 127 - Their first step was to circulate among the Members of the House of Commons a paper entitled ' The Case of the Protestant Dissenters with reference to the Corporation and Test Acts,' in which they more especially laboured to distinguish their case from that of the Roman Catholics.
Page 562 - And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State ; and the Union shall be perpetual. Nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to, in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Page 552 - I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the Colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 134 - At length, I well remember, after a conversation in the open air, at the root of an old tree at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the vale of Keston, I resolved to give notice, on a fit occasion, in the House of Commons, of my intention to bring the subject forward.