The Quarterly Review, Volume 21William 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 - English literature |
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... French army , and its coffers emptied by their exactions . The successful manner in which America fitted out a few ships of war during the late contest , may have induced some persons to give credit to her extravagant boasts , and to ...
... French army , and its coffers emptied by their exactions . The successful manner in which America fitted out a few ships of war during the late contest , may have induced some persons to give credit to her extravagant boasts , and to ...
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... of Trafalgar had left no enemy on the sea to contend with ; and this event , added to the subsequent blockading system , which put an end end to the French navy , was not calculated to 16 Bristed - Statistical View of America .
... of Trafalgar had left no enemy on the sea to contend with ; and this event , added to the subsequent blockading system , which put an end end to the French navy , was not calculated to 16 Bristed - Statistical View of America .
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... French navy , was not calculated to improve the tactics of our own . " But there was yet another cause for that partial success which has turned the brain of every American . Their frigates were , in every instance , superior to those ...
... French navy , was not calculated to improve the tactics of our own . " But there was yet another cause for that partial success which has turned the brain of every American . Their frigates were , in every instance , superior to those ...
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... French revolution ; they wished to avoid the war with England ; they were eager for the return of peace , and desirous that such improvements might be made in their system of government , as should strengthen the executive power ...
... French revolution ; they wished to avoid the war with England ; they were eager for the return of peace , and desirous that such improvements might be made in their system of government , as should strengthen the executive power ...
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... French system of conscription , when the return of peace arrested these death - blows to all the popular insti- tutions and republican liberties of the United States of America . ' They cannot be ignorant that the power which they ...
... French system of conscription , when the return of peace arrested these death - blows to all the popular insti- tutions and republican liberties of the United States of America . ' They cannot be ignorant that the power which they ...
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Page 50 - 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 54 - 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 131 - 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 397 - 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 61 - 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 61 - 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 397 - Methinks it is good to be here ; If Thou wilt, let us build— but for whom ? Nor Elias nor Moses appear, But the shadows of eve that encompass the gloom, The abode of the dead and the place of the tomb.
Page 536 - They cried, No wonder such celestial charms For nine long years have set the world in arms ; What winning graces! what majestic mien! She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen.
Page 397 - Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, LORD, it is good for us to be here : if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles ; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
Page 360 - 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.