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... improved by your lordship's better judgment , may lead to the introduction of a
system that will render the naval service as popular among our seamen , as the
merchant - service is at present . Seafaring men , my lord , partly from choice and
...
... improved by your lordship's better judgment , may lead to the introduction of a
system that will render the naval service as popular among our seamen , as the
merchant - service is at present . Seafaring men , my lord , partly from choice and
...
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He is devoted to that monarch , whom he can turn his own way , by administering
to his caprices : he thinks it better than if he were king himself ; for , while he
works in the name of his master , he can shift the evil he does upon the shoulders
of ...
He is devoted to that monarch , whom he can turn his own way , by administering
to his caprices : he thinks it better than if he were king himself ; for , while he
works in the name of his master , he can shift the evil he does upon the shoulders
of ...
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are “ If I were a young man , ” replied Mr. Salt , “ they might procure me notoriety ,
but that sort of notoriety can do the dying no good ; and , were I desirous of being
better talked of after death than I have been living , there are other papers I ...
are “ If I were a young man , ” replied Mr. Salt , “ they might procure me notoriety ,
but that sort of notoriety can do the dying no good ; and , were I desirous of being
better talked of after death than I have been living , there are other papers I ...
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On the ancients Mr. St. John has formed his rule of judgment , and by their rule he
tries every thing : -perhaps after all we may have no better standard . All the
essays in these volumes are classically and cleverly written . The first is on the ...
On the ancients Mr. St. John has formed his rule of judgment , and by their rule he
tries every thing : -perhaps after all we may have no better standard . All the
essays in these volumes are classically and cleverly written . The first is on the ...
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Insect Architecture ” and “ Insect Transformations ” have already appeared ; and
we know no works , within the same limit of space and price , more full of
information and better adapted to impart a general knowledge of their subjects .
Insect Architecture ” and “ Insect Transformations ” have already appeared ; and
we know no works , within the same limit of space and price , more full of
information and better adapted to impart a general knowledge of their subjects .
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Página 50 - A DICTIONARY, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation.
Página 211 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Página 211 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 309 - ... country. Southey, by his marvellous excursions in the regions both of history and romance — Coleridge, by his wild fictions of a class entirely his own, in which there is an indescribable witchery of phrase and conceit, that affects the imagination as if one had eaten of " the insane root that takes the reason prisoner...
Página 81 - And they chaunted the deeds of Roland. Still the ramparted ground . With a vision my fancy inspires, And I hear the trump sound, As it marshalled our Chivalry's sires. On each turf of that mead Stood the captors of England's domains, That ennobled her breed And high-mettled the blood of her veins.
Página 149 - ... with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our Royal Proclamation, hereby...
Página 155 - ... them an hour together. If I had time I stayed by them to see them die, and see the manner of their death, and closed up their mouth and eyes ; for they died with their mouth and eyes very much open and staring. Then if people had nobody to help them (for help was scarce at such a time and place), I helped to lay them forth out of the bed, and afterwards into the coffin ; and, last of all, accompanied them to the ground.
Página 39 - Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.
Página 115 - King in person, who delivered the following speech: — " MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, " I AM at length enabled to put an end to a session of unexampled duration and labour, in which matters of the deepest interest have been brought under your consideration. I have felt sincere satisfaction in confirming, by my royal assent, bills for the amendment of the game laws, and for the reduction of taxes which pressed heavily on the industry of my people...
Página 115 - GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, " I thank you for the provision made for the future dignity and comfort of my Royal Consort, in the event of her surviving me, and for the supplies which you have granted for the service of the present year. You may be assured of my anxious care to have them administered with the strictest attention to a wellconsidered economy. The state of Europe has...
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | The Metropolitan, Volume 2 English literary periodicals |
| Editora | James Cochrane and Company, 1831 |
| Original de | Universidade de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 28 Fev 2007 |
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