Liverpool, Its Commerce, Statistics, and Institutions: With a History of the Cotton TradeT. Kaye, 1825 - 461 Seiten |
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Seite 72 - ... only for a short time on particular occasions, it would have appeared a vehement impetuosity ; but by being unintermitted it had an equability of manner, which scarcely appeared to exceed the tone of a calm constancy, it was so totally the reverse of any thing like turbulence or agitation.
Seite 109 - That through a determined and persevering, but, at the same time, judicious and temperate enforcement of such measures, this House looks forward to a progressive improvement in the character of the slave population, such as may prepare them for a participation in those civil rights and privileges which are enjoyed by other classes of his majesty's subjects.
Seite 364 - If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Seite 380 - It came towards Selma's hall, and dissolved in a shower of blood. The king alone beheld the sight; he foresaw the death of the people. He came, in silence, to his hall; and took his father's spear. The mail rattled on his breast. The heroes rose around. They looked, in silence, on each other, marking the eyes of Fingal. They saw battle in his face : the death of armies on his spear. A thousand shields, at once, are placed on their arms ; they drew a thousand swords. The hall of Selma brightened around....
Seite 102 - Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys...
Seite 383 - I cannot but wonder whence you should gather any hopes that I should prove like you, treacherous to my Sovereign ; since you cannot be ignorant of my former actings in his late Majesty's service, from which principles of loyalty I am no whit departed.
Seite 109 - That this House is anxious for the accomplishment of this purpose, at the earliest period that shall be compatible with the well-being of the slaves themselves, with the safety of the colonies, and with a fair and equitable consideration of the interests of private property.
Seite 236 - ... and Debauchery are greatly owing to a gross Ignorance of the Christian Religion, especially among the poorer sort ; And whereas nothing is more likely to promote the practice of Christianity and Virtue, than an early and pious Education of Youth ; And whereas many Poor People are desirous of having their Children Taught, but are not able to afford them a Christian and Useful Education ; We whose Names are underwritten, do...
Seite 78 - ... all the languages of Europe spoken in this little spot of his former dominions, and to see so many private men, who in his time would have been the vassals of some powerful baron, negotiating like princes for greater sums of money than were formerly to be met with in the royal treasury! Trade, without enlarging the British territories, has given us a kind of additional Empire.
Seite 185 - ... calculation that new and mighty power — new, at least, in the application of its might — which walks the water, like a giant rejoicing in his course; stemming alike the tempest and the tide; accelerating intercourse, shortening distances; creating, as it were, unexpected neighbourhoods, and new combinations of social and commercial relation; and giving to the fickleness of winds and the faithlessness of waves the certainty and steadiness of a highway upon the land?