Works, Volume 8W. Durell, 1811 |
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... passed un- detected ; but since it has been my fortune to fail in my original design , to have the suppositious passages which I have inserted in my quotations made known to the world , and the shade which began to gather on the ...
... passed un- detected ; but since it has been my fortune to fail in my original design , to have the suppositious passages which I have inserted in my quotations made known to the world , and the shade which began to gather on the ...
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... passed since the cruelties of war were filling the world with terror and with sorrow ; rage was at last appeased , or strength exhausted , and to the harassed nations peace was restored , with its pleasures and its benefits . Of this ...
... passed since the cruelties of war were filling the world with terror and with sorrow ; rage was at last appeased , or strength exhausted , and to the harassed nations peace was restored , with its pleasures and its benefits . Of this ...
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... passed by them in search of better habitations . When the Spaniards , who , under the conduct of Columbus , discovered America , had taken possession of its most wealthy regions ; they surprised and terrified Europe by a sudden and ...
... passed by them in search of better habitations . When the Spaniards , who , under the conduct of Columbus , discovered America , had taken possession of its most wealthy regions ; they surprised and terrified Europe by a sudden and ...
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... passed between Spain and England , Keene was directed to protest that nothing more than mere discovery was intended , and that no settlement was to be established . The Spaniard readily replied , that if this was a voyage of wanton ...
... passed between Spain and England , Keene was directed to protest that nothing more than mere discovery was intended , and that no settlement was to be established . The Spaniard readily replied , that if this was a voyage of wanton ...
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... passed between the descent and re - embarkation , half an army .perished . In the last war the Havanna was taken , at what ex- pense is too well remembered . May my country be never cursed with such another conquest ! These instances of ...
... passed between the descent and re - embarkation , half an army .perished . In the last war the Havanna was taken , at what ex- pense is too well remembered . May my country be never cursed with such another conquest ! These instances of ...
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Page 355 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.
Page 114 - The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction ; pale, torpid, spiritless and helpless ; gasping and groaning, unpitied among men, made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery ; and...
Page 273 - Whatever is imaged in the wildest tale, if giants, dragons, and enchantment be excepted, would be felt by him, who, wandering in the mountains without a guide, or upon the sea without a pilot, should be carried amidst his terror and uncertainty, to the hospitality and elegance of Raasay or Dunvegan.
Page 188 - We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties ; an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? But let us interrupt awhile this dream of conquest, settlement, and supremacy.
Page 177 - Those who wrote the Address, though they have shown no great extent or profundity of mind, are yet probably wiser than to believe it: but they have been taught by some master of mischief, how to put in motion the engine of political electricity; to attract by the sounds of Liberty and Property, to repel by those of Popery and Slavery; and to give the great stroke by the name of Boston.
Page 190 - HAD desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long, that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally excited ; and was in the autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake the journey, by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniencies of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed.
Page 230 - Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated make a great part of the earth, and he that has never seen them must live unacquainted with much of the face of nature and with one of the great scenes of human existence.
Page 260 - Raasay has little that can detain a traveller, except the laird and his family ; but their power wants no auxiliaries. Such a seat of hospitality, amidst the winds and waters, fills the imagination with a delightful contrariety of images. Without is the rough ocean and the rocky land, the beating billows and the howling storm : within is plenty and elegance, beauty and gaiety, the song and the dance.
Page 114 - It is wonderful with what coolness and indifference the greater part of mankind see war commenced. Those that hear of it at a distance or read of it in books, but have never presented its evils to their minds, consider it as little more than a splendid game, a proclamation, an army, a battle, and a triumph.
Page 194 - ... necessity there is reason to complain. It is surely not without just reproach, that a nation, of which the commerce is hourly extending, and the wealth increasing, denies any participation of its prosperity to its literary societies ; and while its merchants or its nobles are raising palaces, suffers its Universities to moulder into dust.