The Critical Review, Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1807 - English literature |
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... interest and importance . Whe In the ponderous work now before us , the history of St. Domingo is pursued from the æra of its discovery , and ninety - four pages are allotted to an investigation of its early history , without much ...
... interest and importance . Whe In the ponderous work now before us , the history of St. Domingo is pursued from the æra of its discovery , and ninety - four pages are allotted to an investigation of its early history , without much ...
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... interest , and are enabled to judge of the present situation of Hispaniola , of its resources , its power , and the probabilities of its future fate . Yet through every part of his course , Captain Rainsford appears as the advocate and ...
... interest , and are enabled to judge of the present situation of Hispaniola , of its resources , its power , and the probabilities of its future fate . Yet through every part of his course , Captain Rainsford appears as the advocate and ...
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... interests they may be readily disunited , and prove an easier and successive prey , and that measures of conciliation joined to those of force may effect what neither is alone adequate to accomplish . In another expedition , which will ...
... interests they may be readily disunited , and prove an easier and successive prey , and that measures of conciliation joined to those of force may effect what neither is alone adequate to accomplish . In another expedition , which will ...
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... interest , and of oc- casional flights of affecting and of sublime poetry . How far he made the most advantage of his sacred theme , the public taste has already decided for him . For our own parts , though sometimes offended with ...
... interest , and of oc- casional flights of affecting and of sublime poetry . How far he made the most advantage of his sacred theme , the public taste has already decided for him . For our own parts , though sometimes offended with ...
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... interest . The 5th chapter , entitled General Observations on the Brazils , ' contains nothing worthy of notice . The ignorance and dirtiness of the inhabitants combine with swarms of musquitoes to lessen the attractions of a country ...
... interest . The 5th chapter , entitled General Observations on the Brazils , ' contains nothing worthy of notice . The ignorance and dirtiness of the inhabitants combine with swarms of musquitoes to lessen the attractions of a country ...
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Page 353 - It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does ; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel ; and that our states are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats.
Page 353 - I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
Page 353 - For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.
Page 353 - I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For, having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Page 354 - On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to it would, with me, on this occasion doubt a little of his own infallibility, and, to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.
Page 354 - Much of the strength and efficiency of any government in procuring and securing happiness to the people depends on opinion, on the general opinion of the goodness of that government as well as of the wisdom and integrity of its governors.
Page 243 - God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.
Page 125 - See all its store of inland waters hurl'd In one vast volume down Niagara's steep, Or calm behold them, in transparent sleep, Where the blue hills of old Toronto shed Their evening shadows o'er Ontario's bed...
Page 353 - Constitution: for when you assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.
Page 353 - But though many private persons think almost as highly of their own infallibility as of that of their sect, few express it so naturally as a certain French lady, who in a dispute with her sister, said: 'I don't know how it happens, sister, but I meet with nobody but myself that is always in the right.