The Monthly Review, Band 3Hurst, Robinson, 1835 |
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... measure sixty - three feet ; the banyan , with its enormous stem ; or the towering pinus insularis of Norfolk Island , rising to the height of even 240 feet , with a trunk of commensurate dimensions , will smile with a feeling analogous ...
... measure sixty - three feet ; the banyan , with its enormous stem ; or the towering pinus insularis of Norfolk Island , rising to the height of even 240 feet , with a trunk of commensurate dimensions , will smile with a feeling analogous ...
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... measures of this kind are taken , these dis- tricts will be a nuisance to the settlers , both in respect of their insalubrity , and their being the resort of the numerous gangs of wolves which infest the country . I spent one night in ...
... measures of this kind are taken , these dis- tricts will be a nuisance to the settlers , both in respect of their insalubrity , and their being the resort of the numerous gangs of wolves which infest the country . I spent one night in ...
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... measure , has not yet been found . But in every country where geology has hitherto been practically studied , some part or other of the series is wanting . The author continues- " At many points of our Atlantic coast , including the ...
... measure , has not yet been found . But in every country where geology has hitherto been practically studied , some part or other of the series is wanting . The author continues- " At many points of our Atlantic coast , including the ...
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... measure be regulated thereby , so as to avoid taking grain when its price in India would so enhance its cost in China , as to counter- balance the advantage derived from the non - payment of the £ 650 im- port charge . Believing this ...
... measure be regulated thereby , so as to avoid taking grain when its price in India would so enhance its cost in China , as to counter- balance the advantage derived from the non - payment of the £ 650 im- port charge . Believing this ...
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... measures would be in reality actual warfare on the part of Great Britain against China ; and it is not to be presumed that this country is prepared to compel any nation to adopt its commer- cial notions , by recourse to war . Åre then ...
... measures would be in reality actual warfare on the part of Great Britain against China ; and it is not to be presumed that this country is prepared to compel any nation to adopt its commer- cial notions , by recourse to war . Åre then ...
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Seite 18 - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Seite 8 - Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
Seite 115 - 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.
Seite 112 - To paint fair Nature, by divine command Her magic pencil in his glowing hand, A Shakspeare rose; then, to expand his fame Wide o'er this breathing world, a Garrick came. Though sunk in death the forms the Poet drew, The Actor's genius bade them breathe anew; Though, like the bard himself, in night they lay, Immortal Garrick...
Seite 405 - There are at the present time, two great nations in the world which seem to tend towards the same end, although they started from different points; I allude to the Russians and the Americans.
Seite 316 - Picton, his Majesty has sustained the loss of an officer who has frequently distinguished himself in his service, and he fell gloriously leading his division to a charge with bayonets, by which one of the most serious attacks made by the enemy on our position was defeated.
Seite 405 - Their starting point is different and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.
Seite 534 - Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Seite 113 - It seemed to embody and realise conceptions which had hitherto assumed no distinct shape. But dearly do we pay all our life after for this juvenile pleasure, this sense of distinctness. When the novelty is past, we find to our cost that instead of realising an idea, we have only materialised and brought down a fine vision to the standard of flesh and blood.
Seite 222 - I learned grammar when I was a private soldier on the pay of sixpence a day. The edge of my berth, or that of the guard-bed, was my seat to study in ; my knapsack was my bookcase ; a bit of board, lying on my lap, was my writing-table ; and the task did not demand any thing like a year of my life.