The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 116A. Constable, 1862 |
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Page 22
... thing living to the water , the most laborious task yet remained . Their pro- visions and few indispensable articles were still strewed along their track ; and , while the horses were taking some rest , it was necessary to go back and ...
... thing living to the water , the most laborious task yet remained . Their pro- visions and few indispensable articles were still strewed along their track ; and , while the horses were taking some rest , it was necessary to go back and ...
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... thing turned from the glow . An all - pervading relaxation seized man and beast . The horses were unable to bear the weight of their own heads . Propped against trees , and turned from the hot wind , they let their heads fall to the ...
... thing turned from the glow . An all - pervading relaxation seized man and beast . The horses were unable to bear the weight of their own heads . Propped against trees , and turned from the hot wind , they let their heads fall to the ...
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... things we now know what England might have accomplished in 1809 , had her real powers been employed in the Peninsula . General Napier maintains that 90,000 men might have been easily spared for this service ; and had this force , well ...
... things we now know what England might have accomplished in 1809 , had her real powers been employed in the Peninsula . General Napier maintains that 90,000 men might have been easily spared for this service ; and had this force , well ...
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... thing is radically bad . ' ( Vol . viii . p . 198. ) In addition to this the stores for the army were not seldom intercepted by French and American privateers ; the aid of even a part of the fleet for the siege of San Sebastian was ...
... thing is radically bad . ' ( Vol . viii . p . 198. ) In addition to this the stores for the army were not seldom intercepted by French and American privateers ; the aid of even a part of the fleet for the siege of San Sebastian was ...
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... Things are now so far advanced that I am authorised to inform your lordship that there is no doubt that hostilities will commence on the 16th of August . ' ( Vol . viii . p . 133. ) Still discord remained in the allied camp , and , even ...
... Things are now so far advanced that I am authorised to inform your lordship that there is no doubt that hostilities will commence on the 16th of August . ' ( Vol . viii . p . 133. ) Still discord remained in the allied camp , and , even ...
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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.