The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 30A. Constable, 1818 |
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... remark how little progress has been made in geographical discovery since those early and intrepid adventur- ers explored the Arctic regions with their humble barks , which seldom exceeded the size of fifty tons . We must pass over a ...
... remark how little progress has been made in geographical discovery since those early and intrepid adventur- ers explored the Arctic regions with their humble barks , which seldom exceeded the size of fifty tons . We must pass over a ...
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... remark of those who frequent the Polar seas , that they find always the least ob- struction from ice when the preceding winter has been very se- vere in the more southern latitudes . In the year 1766 , though the frost had proved most ...
... remark of those who frequent the Polar seas , that they find always the least ob- struction from ice when the preceding winter has been very se- vere in the more southern latitudes . In the year 1766 , though the frost had proved most ...
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... remarks ; but we have al- ready said enough to explain our meaning : And shall now di- rect our attention to the inquiry with which Mr Ricardo com- mences his work ; and endeavour to determine the circumstan- ces which regulate the cost ...
... remarks ; but we have al- ready said enough to explain our meaning : And shall now di- rect our attention to the inquiry with which Mr Ricardo com- mences his work ; and endeavour to determine the circumstan- ces which regulate the cost ...
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... remarks we shall , therefore , exclude all consi- deration of the difference in the species of labour , and shall sup- pose the rate of wages , and the rise and fall of that rate , to be quite uniform and general . From what has been ...
... remarks we shall , therefore , exclude all consi- deration of the difference in the species of labour , and shall sup- pose the rate of wages , and the rise and fall of that rate , to be quite uniform and general . From what has been ...
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... remarks have extended , and our anxiety to lay before our readers a faithful abstract of the fundamental principles which have been developed and il- lustrated by Mr Ricardo , and to point out some of their more important consequences ...
... remarks have extended , and our anxiety to lay before our readers a faithful abstract of the fundamental principles which have been developed and il- lustrated by Mr Ricardo , and to point out some of their more important consequences ...
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Página 115 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Página 116 - twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Página 101 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night; Sunset divides the sky with her; a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be, — Melted to one vast Iris of the West, — Where the Day joins the past Eternity, While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest!
Página 115 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war: These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Página 115 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free. And many a tyrant since : their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts; — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves
Página 115 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless...
Página 114 - But when the rising moon begins to climb Its topmost arch, and gently pauses there; When the stars twinkle through the loops of time, And the low night-breeze waves along the air The garland-forest, which the gray walls wear, Like laurels on the bald first Caesar's head; When the light shines serene but doth not glare, Then in this magic circle raise the dead: Heroes have trod this spot — 'tis on their dust ye tread.
Página 116 - Ye ! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell...
Página 84 - By necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without.
Página 109 - Where the car climb'd the Capitol; far and wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site: Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, 'here was, or is,