The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 116A. Constable, 1862 |
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... mind any other Australian explorer with whom the colonists have not promptly shared the golden tide which has inundated them . † The district of Gipps ' Land contains about ten millions of acres . hundred deep pellucid streams display ...
... mind any other Australian explorer with whom the colonists have not promptly shared the golden tide which has inundated them . † The district of Gipps ' Land contains about ten millions of acres . hundred deep pellucid streams display ...
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... mind , for I felt that , if I thus again retired , it would be a virtual abandonment of the task undertaken . I should be doing an injustice to Mr. Stuart and my men , if I did not here mention that I told them the position we were ...
... mind , for I felt that , if I thus again retired , it would be a virtual abandonment of the task undertaken . I should be doing an injustice to Mr. Stuart and my men , if I did not here mention that I told them the position we were ...
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... mind with hope ; and though he still lamented his hands were not free , he was less impatient of his situa- tion . ' ( Vol . vii . p . 267. ) While Wellington was thus convincing Europe that Portugal could be successfully defended , the ...
... mind with hope ; and though he still lamented his hands were not free , he was less impatient of his situa- tion . ' ( Vol . vii . p . 267. ) While Wellington was thus convincing Europe that Portugal could be successfully defended , the ...
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... mind as a soldier ; and that , as he appears to have weighed the whole of his situation so coolly and maturely , and to have considered so fully every contingency under which he may be placed , not omitting any necessary preparation ...
... mind as a soldier ; and that , as he appears to have weighed the whole of his situation so coolly and maturely , and to have considered so fully every contingency under which he may be placed , not omitting any necessary preparation ...
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... mind and spirit is a practical end well worth all the toil which can be bestowed upon it . * Whatever may be its future results , the past history of the science is connected with questions which , important at all times , have in our ...
... mind and spirit is a practical end well worth all the toil which can be bestowed upon it . * Whatever may be its future results , the past history of the science is connected with questions which , important at all times , have in our ...
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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.