The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 149A. Constable, 1879 |
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... periods , cannot fail to be struck by the wide discordance between the actual events and the anticipations which were so ... period which modern Europe has experienced , or doubtless which the world has ever beheld . It must be said ...
... periods , cannot fail to be struck by the wide discordance between the actual events and the anticipations which were so ... period which modern Europe has experienced , or doubtless which the world has ever beheld . It must be said ...
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... period had been one of extreme depression and distress , which naturally showed itself in politi- cal virulence and discontent . The expenses of Government had been reduced to a minimum and the army and navy largely curtailed . Peace ...
... period had been one of extreme depression and distress , which naturally showed itself in politi- cal virulence and discontent . The expenses of Government had been reduced to a minimum and the army and navy largely curtailed . Peace ...
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... period which no one ventures to estimate . The second opinion held , and still more confidently , indeed universally , in 1850-51 , was that there would be a great and speedy fall in the value of gold , and of money generally - an ...
... period which no one ventures to estimate . The second opinion held , and still more confidently , indeed universally , in 1850-51 , was that there would be a great and speedy fall in the value of gold , and of money generally - an ...
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... period , he said that during the next ten years there would be added to the world's stock as large a quantity as had been poured into the world since the end of the fifteenth century , which amount is estimated to have been about 400 ...
... period , he said that during the next ten years there would be added to the world's stock as large a quantity as had been poured into the world since the end of the fifteenth century , which amount is estimated to have been about 400 ...
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... period , and no doubt these were as high as he states . But consider how small was the purchasing power of money in California at that time compared with what it is at home , or in Europe generally . Apart from the expenses and ...
... period , and no doubt these were as high as he states . But consider how small was the purchasing power of money in California at that time compared with what it is at home , or in Europe generally . Apart from the expenses and ...
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Página 157 - Italian Friar and second Machiavel, his Advice to the King ' of Spain for attaining the universal Monarchy of the World.
Página 530 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be ; and that which is done is that which shall be done : and there is no new thing under the sun.
Página 472 - I should like to have been able to see their faces, and to hear their observations to each other, at the time. This occurrence at home will, one would hope, teach the loyal a little caution in speaking of the means which Napoleon employs (or rather, which they say he employs) in order to get together and to discipline his conscripts.
Página 534 - Cox (GV)— RECOLLECTIONS OF OXFORD. By G. V. Cox, MA, New College, late Esquire Bedel and Coroner in the University of Oxford. Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo.
Página 190 - I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
Página 1 - Mellon, in the report of the Secretary of the Treasury for the fiscal year ended June 30...
Página 460 - Tub,' which I carried about with me wherever I went ; and when I, at about twenty years old, lost it in a box that fell overboard in the Bay of Fundy, in North America, the loss gave me greater pain than I have ever felt at losing thousands of pounds.
Página 504 - Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
Página 474 - Cobbett was at the height of his political reputation ; but of politics we heard little, and should, I think, have heard nothing, but for an occasional red-hot patriot, who would introduce the subject, which our host would fain put aside, and got rid of as speedily as possible.
Página 106 - THE EXPEDITION FOR THE SURVEY OF THE RIVERS EUPHRATES and TIGRIS, carried on by order of the British Government, in the Years 1835, 1836, and 1837.