The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 8A. Constable, 1806 |
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... foon as peace was concluded , the colonial monopoly of France was refumed in its utmost rigour , and neutrals were again entirely excluded from a trade which had been entrusted in a great measure to their hands . Upon the breaking out ...
... foon as peace was concluded , the colonial monopoly of France was refumed in its utmost rigour , and neutrals were again entirely excluded from a trade which had been entrusted in a great measure to their hands . Upon the breaking out ...
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... foon be found by our enemies to yield them no protection . They would hoit again their own commercial colours ; and either reftore to us all the fair fruits of an unresisted naval fuperiority , or , by fending out convoys for the ...
... foon be found by our enemies to yield them no protection . They would hoit again their own commercial colours ; and either reftore to us all the fair fruits of an unresisted naval fuperiority , or , by fending out convoys for the ...
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... foon as it is pro- perly understood ; that America , in particular , may fafely be pre- fumed extremely unwilling to join her arms with thofe of France , against the only country which now upholds , in the old world , the general ...
... foon as it is pro- perly understood ; that America , in particular , may fafely be pre- fumed extremely unwilling to join her arms with thofe of France , against the only country which now upholds , in the old world , the general ...
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... foon after , to let the example have its proper effect ; yet the direct trade which has since been carried on with the enemy , either under the troublesome and partial pro- tection of royal license , or , in a ftill more precarious ...
... foon after , to let the example have its proper effect ; yet the direct trade which has since been carried on with the enemy , either under the troublesome and partial pro- tection of royal license , or , in a ftill more precarious ...
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... foon as it engages in war , however , it ceafes to be profitable for it to do this ; the rates of wages and infurance are neceffarily raised ; and even where it maintains the fuperiority at sea , the risk and the ex- pence of ...
... foon as it engages in war , however , it ceafes to be profitable for it to do this ; the rates of wages and infurance are neceffarily raised ; and even where it maintains the fuperiority at sea , the risk and the ex- pence of ...
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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.