The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 2;Volume 7Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, 1831 |
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... present : this is as applicable to the literary , scientific , and intellectual history of the time as to its moral and political institutions . We will proceed in our endea- vour to convey the character of these centuries , by noting ...
... present : this is as applicable to the literary , scientific , and intellectual history of the time as to its moral and political institutions . We will proceed in our endea- vour to convey the character of these centuries , by noting ...
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... present ; and the chroniclers describe with wonder and asto- nishment the quantity of merchandize exposed for sale , and the number of purchases completed within the short space of time allowed for traffic . These centuries were rich in ...
... present ; and the chroniclers describe with wonder and asto- nishment the quantity of merchandize exposed for sale , and the number of purchases completed within the short space of time allowed for traffic . These centuries were rich in ...
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... present . Two abbots were charged to summon the king , who had them put out of the palace . On the 6th of December , the bishops and priests assembled , each with a torch in his hand . In the dead of the night the clerks chanted in a ...
... present . Two abbots were charged to summon the king , who had them put out of the palace . On the 6th of December , the bishops and priests assembled , each with a torch in his hand . In the dead of the night the clerks chanted in a ...
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... present century . In itself this style of weaving history produces a kind of party- coloured performance , which is far from being agreeable at first sight : a little attentive contemplation , however , shows that the natural result is ...
... present century . In itself this style of weaving history produces a kind of party- coloured performance , which is far from being agreeable at first sight : a little attentive contemplation , however , shows that the natural result is ...
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... German periodicals , and are re- printed in the present work . His humour , there is reason to believe , appeared to more advantage in his conversation in society , where his good - natured playful satire and 74 Carl Maria von Weber .
... German periodicals , and are re- printed in the present work . His humour , there is reason to believe , appeared to more advantage in his conversation in society , where his good - natured playful satire and 74 Carl Maria von Weber .
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Página 204 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of Fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Página 367 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of...
Página 367 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know, that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Página 379 - AND seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Página 366 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Página 258 - And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them : and whatsover Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Página 222 - It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits, than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
Página 223 - These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste, and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information, and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless, by forfeiting all title to belief.
Página 220 - ... separate from our companions only, when the sole alternatives left, are the dissolution of our Union with them, or submission to a government without limitation of powers. Between these two evils, when we must make a choice, there can be no hesitation.
Página 366 - And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.