The Quarterly Review, Volume 114William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1863 - English literature |
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... produce of France and Spain , have , with the exception of a few of the more expensive sorts which are occasionally produced as rarities at the tables of the wealthy , until recently scarce been heard of beyond the limits of the empire ...
... produce of France and Spain , have , with the exception of a few of the more expensive sorts which are occasionally produced as rarities at the tables of the wealthy , until recently scarce been heard of beyond the limits of the empire ...
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... produced . There are few persons corresponding to the British farmer who invest their capital in the cultivation of land not their own , and derive from it a com- fortable subsistence . Almost every proprietor within the Austrian ...
... produced . There are few persons corresponding to the British farmer who invest their capital in the cultivation of land not their own , and derive from it a com- fortable subsistence . Almost every proprietor within the Austrian ...
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... produce of the three countries we have the following results : " Approximate value in francs of agricultural produce ( not including live stock ) in Bri- tain , France , and Austria Britain . 6,900,000,000 France . Austria ...
... produce of the three countries we have the following results : " Approximate value in francs of agricultural produce ( not including live stock ) in Bri- tain , France , and Austria Britain . 6,900,000,000 France . Austria ...
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... produced are about equal . * Four - fifths of all the barley and oats are grown in Hungary , Galicia , Bohemia , and ... produce is extraordinary . This great wheat - growing country lies between the Theiss , the Maros , and the Danube ...
... produced are about equal . * Four - fifths of all the barley and oats are grown in Hungary , Galicia , Bohemia , and ... produce is extraordinary . This great wheat - growing country lies between the Theiss , the Maros , and the Danube ...
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... produce the finest wheat , and their agriculture admits of an almost unlimited extension . Austria is thus pre - eminently a land where Nature , in the distribution of her bounties , has evidently designed that cereal production shall ...
... produce the finest wheat , and their agriculture admits of an almost unlimited extension . Austria is thus pre - eminently a land where Nature , in the distribution of her bounties , has evidently designed that cereal production shall ...
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Page 184 - his own bitterness ; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Page 59 - And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
Page 56 - Thus saith the Lord; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
Page 225 - STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made.
Page 231 - And here I prophesy ; — This brawl to-day Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 46 - Skiff. Deeming some Island, oft, as Sea-men tell, With fixed Anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the Lee, while Night Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delays...
Page 205 - That the dead are seen no more, said Imlac, I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which...
Page 70 - And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
Page 66 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 343 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted!