The British Review, and London Critical Journal, Volumen 11Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818 |
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... body of the people were exposed to an extent of exaction , and a degree of oppression , limited only by their powers of endurance on the one hand , or the danger of their revolt on the other . The Dutch , who succeeded the princes whom ...
... body of the people were exposed to an extent of exaction , and a degree of oppression , limited only by their powers of endurance on the one hand , or the danger of their revolt on the other . The Dutch , who succeeded the princes whom ...
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... body of inountaineers , and in the ruins of temples . From the indifferent state of the popular mind , among nearly four millions of people here , and the ease with which a change may be effected , we think a fair field is open in Java ...
... body of inountaineers , and in the ruins of temples . From the indifferent state of the popular mind , among nearly four millions of people here , and the ease with which a change may be effected , we think a fair field is open in Java ...
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... body , and took especial care to make their choice fall upon him who would connive most at their delinquencies . He in his turn recommended to the vacan- cies in his council ; and , from gratitude for their own elevation , or the hopes ...
... body , and took especial care to make their choice fall upon him who would connive most at their delinquencies . He in his turn recommended to the vacan- cies in his council ; and , from gratitude for their own elevation , or the hopes ...
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... bodies were treated with the most sa- vage indignities . The insurgents had determined neither to give nor receive quarter . They had hoisted the English colours . The cause of this insurrection was the old ingrained vice of the Dutch ...
... bodies were treated with the most sa- vage indignities . The insurgents had determined neither to give nor receive quarter . They had hoisted the English colours . The cause of this insurrection was the old ingrained vice of the Dutch ...
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... body of men confined in a building of comparative small dimensions , the doors and windows of which were no doubt closed for security , was , by the pusillanimity , if not the cruelty , of their guards , considered as an attempt to ...
... body of men confined in a building of comparative small dimensions , the doors and windows of which were no doubt closed for security , was , by the pusillanimity , if not the cruelty , of their guards , considered as an attempt to ...
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Página 394 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the copper.
Página 405 - I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Página 404 - In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights, to illuminate our understandings...
Página 394 - I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper ; another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all.
Página 385 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Página 412 - You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. — You have begun to burn our Towns, and murder our People. — Look upon your Hands ! — They are stained with the Blood of your Relations ! You and I were long friends : — You are now my Enemy, — and ' I am, yours,
Página 102 - And a Man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, and as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Página 283 - It is true, that what is settled by custom, though it be not good, yet at least it is fit. And those things which have long gone together, are, as it were, confederate within themselves: whereas new things piece not so well; but though they help by their utility, yet they trouble by their inconformity.
Página 410 - Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Página 389 - I entertained an opinion that, though certain actions might not be bad because they were forbidden by it, or good because it commanded them, yet probably these actions might be forbidden because they were bad for us, or commanded because they were beneficial to us in their own natures, all the circumstances of things considered.