Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle, Volume 14James Maxwell, 1819 - Books |
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... living on salaries , as their proper prey ; just as a flock of geese is eyed by a fox , so that the asked - for tariff of prohibition , operates as a tax on the two hundred and fifty planters , not in one way , but a hundred ways . Have ...
... living on salaries , as their proper prey ; just as a flock of geese is eyed by a fox , so that the asked - for tariff of prohibition , operates as a tax on the two hundred and fifty planters , not in one way , but a hundred ways . Have ...
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... the few things which make wise men serious . ' ' Here lies a priest of English blood , Who living , liked whate'er was good ; Good company , good wine , good name , Yet Sketch of the Life of the late President Cooper . 75.
... the few things which make wise men serious . ' ' Here lies a priest of English blood , Who living , liked whate'er was good ; Good company , good wine , good name , Yet Sketch of the Life of the late President Cooper . 75.
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... living , know any thing about the transaction ; and those have mostly gathered what they do know from strangers who have visited the place . I inquired of some of our sirkars , touching the affair of the black hole , and found that they ...
... living , know any thing about the transaction ; and those have mostly gathered what they do know from strangers who have visited the place . I inquired of some of our sirkars , touching the affair of the black hole , and found that they ...
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... living being . ' Vol . I. p . 262 . We do not complain that Mr. Campbell is too poetical here . He speaks with the enthusiasm which a poet ought to feel for an in- jured brother , and he expresses himself in a lofty but unforced strain ...
... living being . ' Vol . I. p . 262 . We do not complain that Mr. Campbell is too poetical here . He speaks with the enthusiasm which a poet ought to feel for an in- jured brother , and he expresses himself in a lofty but unforced strain ...
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... living poet ; be it as it may , lis est de tri- bus capellis and neither party can lose much by the surrender . We have heard that when Mr. Gibbon presented his concluding Series of the Decline and Fall , ' to the duke of Cumberland ...
... living poet ; be it as it may , lis est de tri- bus capellis and neither party can lose much by the surrender . We have heard that when Mr. Gibbon presented his concluding Series of the Decline and Fall , ' to the duke of Cumberland ...
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Page 105 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Page 329 - All that he had ever heard - all that he had ever read - when compared with it dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun.
Page 342 - For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Page 219 - Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Page 481 - History of the House of Austria. From the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh to the Death of Leopold II., 1218-1792.
Page 449 - tis nought to me: Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full; And where He vital spreads there must be joy.
Page 431 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Page 156 - ... blue sky is o'er thee, Thy bosom Pleasure's shrine ; And thine the sunbeam given To Nature's morning hour, Pure, warm, as when from heaven It burst on Eden's bower. There is a song of sorrow, The death-dirge of the gay, That tells, ere dawn of morrow, These charms may melt away, That sun's bright beam be shaded, That sky be blue no more, The summer flowers be faded, And youth's warm promise o'er. Believe it not — though lonely Thy evening home may be; Though Beauty's bark can only Float on...
Page 191 - Congress, to the maintenance of which independence we solemnly pledge to each other our mutual cooperation, our lives, our fortunes and our most sacred honor. 4. Resolved, that as we now acknowledge the existence and control of no law or legal officer, civil or military, within this county, we do hereby ordain and adopt as a rule of life all, each and every of our former laws — wherein nevertheless the Crown of Great Britain never can be considered as holding rights, privileges, immunities, or...
Page 291 - Prologue will show, was composed under a belief that the Imagination not only does not require for its exercise the intervention of supernatural agency, but that, though such agency be excluded, the faculty may be called forth as imperiously, and for kindred results of pleasure, by incidents, within the compass of poetic probability, in the humblest departments of daily life.