The Quarterly Review, 21. köideWilliam Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1819 |
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... writer and a member of Congress , observes that of this amount only 1,250,000 were actually navi- gated , which employed about 62,000 men . This was the highest point to which the mercantile navy ever rose . Since the return of Europe ...
... writer and a member of Congress , observes that of this amount only 1,250,000 were actually navi- gated , which employed about 62,000 men . This was the highest point to which the mercantile navy ever rose . Since the return of Europe ...
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... writing his book , his pride in his native country , which all his republicanism has been unable to overcome , has fre- quently had to contend with the flattering but unsubstantial prospect which the prophetic folly that ever ...
... writing his book , his pride in his native country , which all his republicanism has been unable to overcome , has fre- quently had to contend with the flattering but unsubstantial prospect which the prophetic folly that ever ...
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... writers in that language . ' America shall spring forward during the next , with the same velocity and force with which she has moved progressively during the last fifty years : she will then whiten every sea with her commercial canvass ...
... writers in that language . ' America shall spring forward during the next , with the same velocity and force with which she has moved progressively during the last fifty years : she will then whiten every sea with her commercial canvass ...
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... writer whose name must be familiar to the generality of our readers . Through the numerous editions and translations of Vitruvius , a degree of celebrity has been attached to his name , far surpassing that enjoyed by writers of much ...
... writer whose name must be familiar to the generality of our readers . Through the numerous editions and translations of Vitruvius , a degree of celebrity has been attached to his name , far surpassing that enjoyed by writers of much ...
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... writers , which , but for this notice , would never have reached us . Although the insertion of the latter had its source in the pedantry of the writer , yet , as they serve to throw light upon the state of science of his age , we shall ...
... writers , which , but for this notice , would never have reached us . Although the insertion of the latter had its source in the pedantry of the writer , yet , as they serve to throw light upon the state of science of his age , we shall ...
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Page 47 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn ; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 36 - In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Page 40 - Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent yc shall all likewise perish.
Page 45 - If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men ; then the Lord hath not sent me. But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit ; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
Page 117 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 383 - The charms that she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud? Alas ! they are all laid aside ; And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud.
Page 47 - ... waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou...
Page 47 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 346 - Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day; and who knows when was the equinox ? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment.
Page 346 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.