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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... attempted to cultivate them , but they will not bear the dry air and bright sun . Many other plants are wanting— " That on the green turf suck the honey'd showers , And purple all the ground with vernal flowers , ' in the dewy fields of ...
... attempted to cultivate them , but they will not bear the dry air and bright sun . Many other plants are wanting— " That on the green turf suck the honey'd showers , And purple all the ground with vernal flowers , ' in the dewy fields of ...
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... tempered are required for chopping wood for fuel , the * Arctic Searching Expedition . ' By Sir John Richardson . Vol . ii . p . 274 . common common European hatchet breaking like glass whenever it is attempted 24 Canada and.
... tempered are required for chopping wood for fuel , the * Arctic Searching Expedition . ' By Sir John Richardson . Vol . ii . p . 274 . common common European hatchet breaking like glass whenever it is attempted 24 Canada and.
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... attempted to be used for that purpose . Such is the authority which the Company and their servants have acquired , that they exercise over the Indian population an almost absolute despotism . If a stranger should venture to travel far ...
... attempted to be used for that purpose . Such is the authority which the Company and their servants have acquired , that they exercise over the Indian population an almost absolute despotism . If a stranger should venture to travel far ...
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... attempt to convert them into tillers of the earth and to fix them to a definite spot would be as futile as to try to domesticate wild ducks in the homestead , or to bring up an eagle with barn - door fowls . No influence or ...
... attempt to convert them into tillers of the earth and to fix them to a definite spot would be as futile as to try to domesticate wild ducks in the homestead , or to bring up an eagle with barn - door fowls . No influence or ...
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... attempts to vary the monotony of his life when stationed at Roseau Lake . He said that when he wished to see anything beyond the four walls of his log - shanty and the rushes with which it was surrounded , he was in the habit of ...
... attempts to vary the monotony of his life when stationed at Roseau Lake . He said that when he wished to see anything beyond the four walls of his log - shanty and the rushes with which it was surrounded , he was in the habit of ...
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Page 64 - With a, full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Page 267 - O fools, and slow of heart, to believe all that the prophets have spoken ! Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory ? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them, in all the Scriptures, the things concerning himself.
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.
Page 337 - Monsieur, tell those who sent you that we are here by the will of the People, and that nothing but the force of bayonets...
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 - It was necessary, on all these accounts, to soothe passions which he could no longer command, and to give way to a torrent too impetuous to be checked. He promised solemnly to his men that he would comply with their request, provided they would accompany him, and obey his command for three days longer, and if, during that time, land were not discovered, he would then abandon the enterprise, and direct his course towards Spain.
Page 374 - I thought inimitable Spenser a mean poet in comparison of Sylvester's Du Bartas, and was rapt into an ecstasy when I read these lines : — ' Now when the winter's keener breath began To crystallize the Baltic ocean, To glaze the lakes, to bridle up the floods, And periwig with snow -(- the baldpate woods.' I am much deceived if this be not abominable fustian.
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...