The Quarterly Review, Volume 109William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1861 - English literature |
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... appear to have viewed the subject in much the same light as their tenantry , and accordingly , in the last session of the Colonial Parliament , feudal tenures were extinguished . Freehold tenure is now common to the whole province , and ...
... appear to have viewed the subject in much the same light as their tenantry , and accordingly , in the last session of the Colonial Parliament , feudal tenures were extinguished . Freehold tenure is now common to the whole province , and ...
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... appears to be best adapted to its cul- tivation , and produces it most largely ; but Eastern Canada grows no inconsiderable quantity , and produces also large quan- tities of peas , oats , and the coarser grains . Hemp and flax also ...
... appears to be best adapted to its cul- tivation , and produces it most largely ; but Eastern Canada grows no inconsiderable quantity , and produces also large quan- tities of peas , oats , and the coarser grains . Hemp and flax also ...
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... appear to entwine their mighty arms together and wrestle for each other's destruction . Some attain a green old age , vigorous to the last , but are prostrated suddenly by the storm that has swept harmlessly over younger heads . Others ...
... appear to entwine their mighty arms together and wrestle for each other's destruction . Some attain a green old age , vigorous to the last , but are prostrated suddenly by the storm that has swept harmlessly over younger heads . Others ...
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... appears to have been unduly depreciated . In no Arctic district to which man has yet penetrated is there a permanent covering of snow over any wide extent of low country . Even at Spitzbergen , only nine degrees from the Pole , there is ...
... appears to have been unduly depreciated . In no Arctic district to which man has yet penetrated is there a permanent covering of snow over any wide extent of low country . Even at Spitzbergen , only nine degrees from the Pole , there is ...
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... appears to be some difference of opinion . The great river , Captain Blakiston informs us , does not drain the plains , but traverses the country , as a canal fed from the Rocky Mountains . It may therefore be said to have no basin ...
... appears to be some difference of opinion . The great river , Captain Blakiston informs us , does not drain the plains , but traverses the country , as a canal fed from the Rocky Mountains . It may therefore be said to have no basin ...
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Page 283 - But I have greater witness than that of John : for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me that the Father hath sent me.
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Page 333 - ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO HIS DUTY !" It was received throughout the fleet with a shout of answering acclamation, made sublime by the spirit which it breathed, and the feeling which it expressed. "Now," said Lord Nelson, "I can do no more.
Page 327 - ... regard to the construction of clocks and watches ; and having found, after repeated trials, that he could not bring any two of them to go exactly alike, he reflected, it is said, with a mixture of surprise as well as regret, on his own folly, in having bestowed so much time and labour on the more vain attempt of bringing mankind to a precise uniformity of sentiment concerning the profound and mysterious doctrines of religion.
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Page 327 - He was particularly curious with regard to the construction of clocks and watches ; and having found, after repeated trials, that he could not bring any two of them to go exactly alike, he reflected, it is said, with a mixture of surprise...