The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 8A. Constable, 1806 |
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... importance . It is written with uncommon talent and confi- derable eloquence ; and is diftinguished by that full and systematic argument , and alfo perhaps by that tone of confidence , anxiety , and exaggeration , which we expect to ...
... importance . It is written with uncommon talent and confi- derable eloquence ; and is diftinguished by that full and systematic argument , and alfo perhaps by that tone of confidence , anxiety , and exaggeration , which we expect to ...
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... important question , we will not diffemble that we feel ourselves in fome measure under the influence of certain impreffions as to the juftice and policy of capturing merchant fhips in general , which we have no doubt that the author of ...
... important question , we will not diffemble that we feel ourselves in fome measure under the influence of certain impreffions as to the juftice and policy of capturing merchant fhips in general , which we have no doubt that the author of ...
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... important . The products of an enemy's colony may fometimes be fuch as to be indifpenfable to the comfort , or even to the existence of fome other nation . If the proprietors are pre- vented by war from exporting them according to their ...
... important . The products of an enemy's colony may fometimes be fuch as to be indifpenfable to the comfort , or even to the existence of fome other nation . If the proprietors are pre- vented by war from exporting them according to their ...
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... important additions to our knowledge in natural hiftory , or correct material errors in our geography , or confirm by practical proofs the conclufions of fcience , his claims to notice will be readily allowed . Finally , the scholar and ...
... important additions to our knowledge in natural hiftory , or correct material errors in our geography , or confirm by practical proofs the conclufions of fcience , his claims to notice will be readily allowed . Finally , the scholar and ...
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... important . The throne of the Sultan is already fhaken in Europe . Who can doubt that the propagation of the new faith will rapidly accelerate the diffolution of his power in Afia ? The Turkish empire , indeed , at the prefent day ...
... important . The throne of the Sultan is already fhaken in Europe . Who can doubt that the propagation of the new faith will rapidly accelerate the diffolution of his power in Afia ? The Turkish empire , indeed , at the prefent day ...
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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.