The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 8A. Constable, 1806 |
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... France has been in a great degree thrown open to neutrals ; and it is the object of this author to point out to his countrymen the nature and extent of the injury which has refult- ed to our caufe from their interference , and the ...
... France has been in a great degree thrown open to neutrals ; and it is the object of this author to point out to his countrymen the nature and extent of the injury which has refult- ed to our caufe from their interference , and the ...
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... France to the American war , the had in fome measure relaxed her monopoly , and admitted neutrals in time of peace to trade to a certain extent with her colonies : in that war alfo , her maritime inferiority was by no means fo decided ...
... France to the American war , the had in fome measure relaxed her monopoly , and admitted neutrals in time of peace to trade to a certain extent with her colonies : in that war alfo , her maritime inferiority was by no means fo decided ...
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... France returned to the principle of ftrict monopoly , and fhut the ports of its colonies to all veffels but its own . Ön the commencement of the prefent war , the accustomed movements took place ; the trade . of the colonies was once ...
... France returned to the principle of ftrict monopoly , and fhut the ports of its colonies to all veffels but its own . Ön the commencement of the prefent war , the accustomed movements took place ; the trade . of the colonies was once ...
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... France and America upon the fubject of our tyranny over neutrals . The confequence of thefe devices has been , that the colonies retained by our enemies have gone on flourishing , in a commer- cial point of view , even more rapidly than ...
... France and America upon the fubject of our tyranny over neutrals . The confequence of thefe devices has been , that the colonies retained by our enemies have gone on flourishing , in a commer- cial point of view , even more rapidly than ...
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... France , Spain , Holland , Genoa , and the late Auftrian Netherlands , and all the colonies and tranfmarine dominions of thofe powers , do not , collectively , at this hour , poffefs a fingle merchant fhip , or a merchant , engaged on ...
... France , Spain , Holland , Genoa , and the late Auftrian Netherlands , and all the colonies and tranfmarine dominions of thofe powers , do not , collectively , at this hour , poffefs a fingle merchant fhip , or a merchant , engaged on ...
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Página 179 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams...
Página 183 - Astonied stood and blank, while horror chill Ran through his veins, and all his joints relax'd...
Página 184 - Castalian spring might with this Paradise Of Eden strive; nor that Nyseian isle Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham, Whom Gentiles Ammon call and...
Página 190 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 188 - Thus saying, from her husband's hand her hand Soft she withdrew ; and like a wood-nymph light, Oread or Dryad, or of Delia's train, Betook her to the groves, but Delia's self In gait...
Página 282 - And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away till all be fulfilled.
Página 125 - Who •will say that Johnson himself would have been such a champion in literature, such a frontrank soldier in the fields of fame, if he had not been pressed into the service, and driven on to glory •with the bayonet of sharp necessity pointed at his back ? If fortune had turned him into a field of clover, he would have laid down and rolled in it.
Página 112 - Horatio — heavens, what a transition! — it seemed as if a whole century had been stept over in the transition of a single scene; old things were done away, and a new order at once brought forward, bright and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel the barbarisms and bigotry of a tasteless age, too long attached to the prejudices of custom, and superstitiously devoted to the illusions of imposing declamation.
Página 172 - We, blindly by our headstrong passions led, Are hot for action, and desire to wed; Then wish for heirs: but to the gods alone Our future offspring, and our wives are known; Th' audacious strumpet, and ungracious son.
Página 338 - I shall, from every private, as well as public motive, most heartily lament, that this is not the moment wherein those great objects of my ambition are to be attained ; and that I am to be longer deprived of an opportunity to assure you, personally, of the regard with which I am your sincere and faithful humble servant, HOWE.