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... the year 1824 , a period of the wildest speculations and , we may add , the most dishonest adventures , ( in which many persons connected JANUARY , 1829 . B commerce . with the silk trade led the way , THE Silk Question.
... the year 1824 , a period of the wildest speculations and , we may add , the most dishonest adventures , ( in which many persons connected JANUARY , 1829 . B commerce . with the silk trade led the way , THE Silk Question.
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... period . I have complete faith in Dr. Meyrick's ac- curacy . His researches upon the subject of armour have been so long- continued and so deep , that it is impossible to suppose that he can materially err ; and he has acquired the ...
... period . I have complete faith in Dr. Meyrick's ac- curacy . His researches upon the subject of armour have been so long- continued and so deep , that it is impossible to suppose that he can materially err ; and he has acquired the ...
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... period , as a thing by no means out of the common way . We wish our ancestors joy of the custom . Blood , it would seem , acted the clergyman with great unction . Being asked to dinner , his grace was immoderately long ; and , in every ...
... period , as a thing by no means out of the common way . We wish our ancestors joy of the custom . Blood , it would seem , acted the clergyman with great unction . Being asked to dinner , his grace was immoderately long ; and , in every ...
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... period of oblivion in diligent thought of the subject that is a mere slip of the pen - but we should like exceed- ingly to know what degree of cessation of agitation of the question would amount to the idea which the Duke of Wellington ...
... period of oblivion in diligent thought of the subject that is a mere slip of the pen - but we should like exceed- ingly to know what degree of cessation of agitation of the question would amount to the idea which the Duke of Wellington ...
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... period , like the overtures which announce the fable of an Opera Seria by Mozart or Paesiello , should be attuned into a solemn cadence ; and if the result of such opinions renders my story too cold and too monotonous for the taste of ...
... period , like the overtures which announce the fable of an Opera Seria by Mozart or Paesiello , should be attuned into a solemn cadence ; and if the result of such opinions renders my story too cold and too monotonous for the taste of ...
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Page 143 - For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.
Page 427 - ... in which notice shall be clearly and explicitly contained the cause of action which such party hath or claimeth to have against such justice of the peace...
Page 228 - Where are my friends? I am alone; No playmate shares my beaker: Some lie beneath the churchyard stone, And some — before the Speaker; And some compose a tragedy, And some compose a rondo; And some draw sword for Liberty, And some draw pleas for John Doe.
Page 309 - That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare, That no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me...
Page 134 - I'll tell you the rest at the Ball. You'll meet all your Beauties ; the Lily And the Fairy of Willowbrook Farm, And Lucy, who made me so silly At Dawlish, by taking your arm ; Miss Manners, who always abused you For talking so much about Hock ; And her sister, who often amused you By raving of rebels and Rock ; And something which surely would answer, An heiress quite fresh from Bengal; — So though you were seldom a dancer, You'll dance, just for once, at our Ball. But out on the world ! — from...
Page 212 - The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean without bound, Without dimension; where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost...
Page 54 - In his domesticated state, when he commences his career of song, it is impossible to stand by uninterested. He whistles for the dog ; Caesar starts up, wags his tail, and runs to meet his master. He squeaks out like a hurt chicken ; and the hen hurries about, with hanging wings and bristled feathers, clucking to protect her injured brood. The barking of the dog, the mewing of the cat, the creaking of a passing wheelbarrow, follow with great truth and rapidity.
Page 558 - But the leading vice in Burns's character, and the cardinal deformity, indeed, of all his productions, was his contempt, or affectation of contempt, for prudence, decency, and regularity ; and his admiration of thoughtlessness, oddity, and vehement sensibility; — his belief, in short, in the dispensing power of genius and social feeling, in all matters of morality and common sense.
Page 106 - How quick they wheel'd, and flying behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers against the face Of their pursuers, and overcame by flight; The field all iron cast a gleaming brown : Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor on each horn Cuirassiers all in steel for standing fight, Chariots, or elephants indorsed with towers Of archers...
Page 460 - ... of the Alps, between Switzerland and Savoy. In these regions the traveller is often overtaken by the most severe weather, even after days of cloudless beauty, when the glaciers glitter in the sunshine, and the pink flowers of the rhododendron appear as if they were never to be sulh'ed by the tempest.