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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... duty of maintaining the honour Large tracts of the and advancing the prosperity of France . American continent were lavished upon the favourites of the French court . Canada then presented one vast unbounded forest , and land was ...
... duty of maintaining the honour Large tracts of the and advancing the prosperity of France . American continent were lavished upon the favourites of the French court . Canada then presented one vast unbounded forest , and land was ...
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... duty it was to administer justice without respect of persons in all disputes , and whenever the law had been violated . This great and good man is believed to have lived about 400 years before the Christian era . After the Cymric or ...
... duty it was to administer justice without respect of persons in all disputes , and whenever the law had been violated . This great and good man is believed to have lived about 400 years before the Christian era . After the Cymric or ...
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... duties . It has its name because in it three events are commemorated , or three persons mentioned , if it be historical ; three things or three actions recommended or denounced , if it be moral . To give the reader at once a tolerable ...
... duties . It has its name because in it three events are commemorated , or three persons mentioned , if it be historical ; three things or three actions recommended or denounced , if it be moral . To give the reader at once a tolerable ...
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... duty to protect , by the liquidation of their long arrears of pay ; and that in three or four months at the latest they should be all marched elsewhere . The King left the Netherlands - never to return to them . He had been met with ...
... duty to protect , by the liquidation of their long arrears of pay ; and that in three or four months at the latest they should be all marched elsewhere . The King left the Netherlands - never to return to them . He had been met with ...
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... duty , he deserved to be a patriot and a champion of the right , rather than an instrument of despotism . And thus he paused for a moment - with much work already accomplished , but his hardest life - task before him ; still in the noon ...
... duty , he deserved to be a patriot and a champion of the right , rather than an instrument of despotism . And thus he paused for a moment - with much work already accomplished , but his hardest life - task before him ; still in the noon ...
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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.
Page 210 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
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...