The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 116A. Constable, 1862 |
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... force a passage to King George's Sound . The South Coast , from Fowler's Bay to King George's Sound , lay as Captain Flinders had sketched it from his ship . Indeed , down to the present time , Mr. Eyre himself is the solitary white man ...
... force a passage to King George's Sound . The South Coast , from Fowler's Bay to King George's Sound , lay as Captain Flinders had sketched it from his ship . Indeed , down to the present time , Mr. Eyre himself is the solitary white man ...
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... force them to proceed further . Leaving them also stretched on the wayside , Mr. Eyre and his men , with the empty water - bags , hurried forward until the next group of sandhills appeared above the horizon . Arriving at these , they ...
... force them to proceed further . Leaving them also stretched on the wayside , Mr. Eyre and his men , with the empty water - bags , hurried forward until the next group of sandhills appeared above the horizon . Arriving at these , they ...
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... force a passage to the coast . In June , 1861 , the task was abandoned ; while in February , Messrs . Burke and Wills had actually visited the shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria by a more easterly , and entirely indepen- dent , route ...
... force a passage to the coast . In June , 1861 , the task was abandoned ; while in February , Messrs . Burke and Wills had actually visited the shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria by a more easterly , and entirely indepen- dent , route ...
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... upholding Protestant ascendancy , and of meeting the claims of the Catholic nation by open force and acts of oppression . A sub- ordinate as yet , he characteristically accepted the system as 1862. Wellington's Supplementary Despatches .
... upholding Protestant ascendancy , and of meeting the claims of the Catholic nation by open force and acts of oppression . A sub- ordinate as yet , he characteristically accepted the system as 1862. Wellington's Supplementary Despatches .
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... force of the Danish army . It will always , perhaps , be a moot point whether , looking at the various cir ... forces were to meet upon the coasts of Mexico ; and the mode of promoting the junction of the troops , of guarding them from ...
... force of the Danish army . It will always , perhaps , be a moot point whether , looking at the various cir ... forces were to meet upon the coasts of Mexico ; and the mode of promoting the junction of the troops , of guarding them from ...
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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.
Page 393 - Flow thro' our deeds and make them pure, That we may lift from out of dust A voice as unto him that hears, A cry above the...
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.