The Quarterly Review, Volume 35William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1827 |
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... England ; and yet , young as they are ( the oldest , except two of a somewhat different nature , being established little more than sixty years ) , their importance and extent may in part be appreciated by the single fact of that oldest ...
... England ; and yet , young as they are ( the oldest , except two of a somewhat different nature , being established little more than sixty years ) , their importance and extent may in part be appreciated by the single fact of that oldest ...
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... England Westminster . Whatever advantages may be supposed to attach to these offices , the assurer most undoubtedly pays very high for a security , that is merely nominal , or at least unnecessary ; but we suppose the greater number of ...
... England Westminster . Whatever advantages may be supposed to attach to these offices , the assurer most undoubtedly pays very high for a security , that is merely nominal , or at least unnecessary ; but we suppose the greater number of ...
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... England · 161. 2s . Guardian 25l . ls . propor- But before we can judge of the comparative advantages to the assurers , this table must be viewed in conjunction with the tion of those profits which is returned to them in the shape of a ...
... England · 161. 2s . Guardian 25l . ls . propor- But before we can judge of the comparative advantages to the assurers , this table must be viewed in conjunction with the tion of those profits which is returned to them in the shape of a ...
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... England was called upon to deduct the income - tax from each dividend , the go- vernors pleaded the impossibility of making the calculations on 800,000 accounts , without delaying the payment of the dividends six months . Mr. Pitt knew ...
... England was called upon to deduct the income - tax from each dividend , the go- vernors pleaded the impossibility of making the calculations on 800,000 accounts , without delaying the payment of the dividends six months . Mr. Pitt knew ...
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... England , the only important change which took place in 1813 , was a measure that affected in a very trifling degree the government of India , we conclude that the work of extensive alteration and improvement is considered by the author ...
... England , the only important change which took place in 1813 , was a measure that affected in a very trifling degree the government of India , we conclude that the work of extensive alteration and improvement is considered by the author ...
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Página 455 - The martyr first, whose eagle eye Could pierce beyond the grave, Who saw his Master in the sky, And called on Him to save...
Página 455 - A noble army — men and boys, The matron and the maid, Around the Saviour's throne rejoice, In robes of light arrayed. They climbed the steep ascent of Heaven, Through peril, toil, and pain. O God, to us may grace be given To follow in their train.
Página 67 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Página 417 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice : His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Página 98 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Página 355 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Página 537 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths ; all these have vanished. They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language ; still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names.
Página 484 - You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness, — how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and waken its dormant thunder. Such...
Página 529 - The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those...