The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 17J. Limbird, 1831 Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc. |
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... cause with much effect . His earliest efforts as a British senator were likewise distinguished by the same regard to the rights of individuals , and the liberties of the country , which he has uniformly mani fested to the present time ...
... cause with much effect . His earliest efforts as a British senator were likewise distinguished by the same regard to the rights of individuals , and the liberties of the country , which he has uniformly mani fested to the present time ...
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... cause in which they are engaged . " In 1824 , ( June 1 ) , we find Mr. Brougham in the House of Commons , moving an address to the King , relative to the proceedings at Demerara against Smith , the missionary ; but , after a debate of ...
... cause in which they are engaged . " In 1824 , ( June 1 ) , we find Mr. Brougham in the House of Commons , moving an address to the King , relative to the proceedings at Demerara against Smith , the missionary ; but , after a debate of ...
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... cause of parliamentary reform , he did not consider that the refusal of that benefit , or , he would say , that right , to the people of this country ( if it were a legal re- In one day , during his visits to the freeholders , Mr ...
... cause of parliamentary reform , he did not consider that the refusal of that benefit , or , he would say , that right , to the people of this country ( if it were a legal re- In one day , during his visits to the freeholders , Mr ...
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... causing counsel to be shouted for from without , although they are actually present ; and he adds to the oddness of this custom by receiving them with a most im- posing mien , and putting on his chapeau as they advance . This is a form ...
... causing counsel to be shouted for from without , although they are actually present ; and he adds to the oddness of this custom by receiving them with a most im- posing mien , and putting on his chapeau as they advance . This is a form ...
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... cause , or show much adroitness in the management of it . He carries too much weight of metal for ordinary and petty occasions : he must have a pretty large question to discuss , and must make thorough - stitch work of it . Mr. Brougham ...
... cause , or show much adroitness in the management of it . He carries too much weight of metal for ordinary and petty occasions : he must have a pretty large question to discuss , and must make thorough - stitch work of it . Mr. Brougham ...
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Página 167 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Página 415 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Página 305 - Book may be used ; only instead of these words [We therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, <fe.] say, \\7~E therefore commit his body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body, (when the sea shall give up her dead,) and the life of the world to come...
Página 96 - An' getting fou and unco happy, We think na on the lang Scots miles, The mosses, waters, slaps, and styles, That lie between us and our hame, Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tam o...
Página 77 - ... neither the music of the Shepherd, the crashing of the Avalanche, nor the torrent, the mountain, the Glacier, the Forest, nor the Cloud, have for one moment lightened the weight upon my heart, nor enabled me to lose my own wretched identity in the majesty, and the power, and the Glory, around, above, and beneath me.
Página iii - If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Página 384 - Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surge foam around.
Página 229 - Sometimes, misguided by the tuneful throng, I look for streams immortalized in song, That lost in silence and oblivion lie, (Dumb are their fountains, and their channels dry,) Yet run for ever by the Muse's skill, And in the smooth description murmur still.
Página 26 - The music of the cows' bells (for their wealth, like the patriarchs', ig cattle,) in the pastures, which reach to a height far above any mountains in Britain, and the shepherds shouting to us from crag to crag, and playing on their reeds where the steeps appeared almost inaccessible, with the surrounding scenery, realized all that I have ever heard or imagined of a pastoral existence ; — much more so than Greece or Asia Minor, for there we are a...
Página 89 - To-morrow is my birth-day — that is to say, at twelve o' the clock, midnight, ie in twelve minutes, I shall have completed thirty and three years of age ! ! ! — and I go to my bed with a heaviness of heart at having lived so long, and to so little purpose. " It is three minutes past twelve. — - ' 'Tis the VOL. v. G NOTICES OF THE 1821. middle of night by the castle clock...