The Quarterly Review, Volumen 26John Murray, 1822 |
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... cause of that vast superiority of the British over the French navy , in all its departments , civil and military , He quotes for his authority Vie du Comte de Chatham , ' which we suppose to be a translation of the wretched publication ...
... cause of that vast superiority of the British over the French navy , in all its departments , civil and military , He quotes for his authority Vie du Comte de Chatham , ' which we suppose to be a translation of the wretched publication ...
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... causes , which , operating upon others of a local or physical nature , have contributed to raise the navy of England to that high pitch of power and glory which it attained in the late revolutionary war . The local circumstances which ...
... causes , which , operating upon others of a local or physical nature , have contributed to raise the navy of England to that high pitch of power and glory which it attained in the late revolutionary war . The local circumstances which ...
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... causes , M. Dupin observes that , In the eyes of the people of England , the marine is the natural element of the British power , and ships are the moveable ramparts of the territory of Albion . It is not merely in the figurative ...
... causes , M. Dupin observes that , In the eyes of the people of England , the marine is the natural element of the British power , and ships are the moveable ramparts of the territory of Albion . It is not merely in the figurative ...
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... cause , in the spontaneous and most liberal contributions for the comfort and relief of the sufferers , which flowed in from the most distant corners of the British dominions , from the northern extremity of Canada , to the land of New ...
... cause , in the spontaneous and most liberal contributions for the comfort and relief of the sufferers , which flowed in from the most distant corners of the British dominions , from the northern extremity of Canada , to the land of New ...
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... caused a remuneration to be made to him of six hundred francs ! ( £ 25 ! ) ; and this is the only instance of a reward being decreed , under the Imperial government , to officers of genius . Those even which the law prescribed to be ...
... caused a remuneration to be made to him of six hundred francs ! ( £ 25 ! ) ; and this is the only instance of a reward being decreed , under the Imperial government , to officers of genius . Those even which the law prescribed to be ...
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Página 167 - My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing ; And thine doth like an angel sit Beside the helm conducting it, Whilst all the winds with melody are ringing.
Página 165 - I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.
Página 119 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Página 269 - An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures'.
Página 168 - We'll pass the eyes Of the starry skies Into the hoar deep to colonize : Death, Chaos, and Night, From the sound of our flight, Shall flee, like mist from a tempest's might. And Earth, Air, and Light, And the Spirit of Might, Which drives round the stars in their fiery flight ; And Love, Thought, and Breath, The powers that quell Death. Wherever we soar shall assemble beneath. And our singing shall build In the void's loose field A world for the Spirit of Wisdom to wield...
Página 485 - It shall suffice to my present purpose to consider the discerning faculties of a man, as they are employed about the objects which they have to do with.
Página 164 - And lovely apparitions — dim at first, Then radiant, as the mind arising bright From the embrace of beauty (whence the forms Of which these are the phantoms) casts on them The gathered rays which are reality — Shall visit us, the progeny immortal Of Painting, Sculpture, and rapt Poesy, And arts, though unimagined, yet to be...
Página 480 - It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking; and I could not avoid frequently using it.
Página 126 - I see him not," said Rebecca. " Foul craven !" exclaimed Ivanhoe ; "does he blench from the helm when the wind blows highest? " ' ' He blenches not ! he blenches not...
Página 410 - One measure of Wine shall be through our Realm, and one measure of Ale, and one measure of Corn, that is to say, the Quarter of London; and one breadth of dyed Cloth, Russets, and Haberjects, that is to say, two Yards within the lists. And it shall be of Weights as it is of Measures.