The Quarterly Review, Volumen 18John Murray, 1818 |
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... Scotland , from the Restoration to the year 1678. By the Rev. Mr. James Kirkton , & c . With an Account of the Murder of Archbishop Sharp . By James Russell , an actor therein . Edited from the MS . by Charles Kirk- patrick Sharpe . C ...
... Scotland , from the Restoration to the year 1678. By the Rev. Mr. James Kirkton , & c . With an Account of the Murder of Archbishop Sharp . By James Russell , an actor therein . Edited from the MS . by Charles Kirk- patrick Sharpe . C ...
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... Scotland is much the poorest part of the island , yet the poor there are maintained by the voluntary charities of the people . Holland is the perfectest pattern for putting charity in a good method : the poor work as much as they can ...
... Scotland is much the poorest part of the island , yet the poor there are maintained by the voluntary charities of the people . Holland is the perfectest pattern for putting charity in a good method : the poor work as much as they can ...
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... Scotland subsist , and at half the expense , better than the labourers in the south of England . See the Population Abstract of 1811. The families in England and Wales em- ployed in agriculture , are 770,199 ; all other families arc ...
... Scotland subsist , and at half the expense , better than the labourers in the south of England . See the Population Abstract of 1811. The families in England and Wales em- ployed in agriculture , are 770,199 ; all other families arc ...
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... Scotland and in Ireland , and authority must be given for the prevention of outrageous behaviour among the in- mates . The other workhouses would become the residence of or- phan children , or the helpless aged of the district , if not ...
... Scotland and in Ireland , and authority must be given for the prevention of outrageous behaviour among the in- mates . The other workhouses would become the residence of or- phan children , or the helpless aged of the district , if not ...
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... Scotland , visited North and South Wales , and scoured the mountains of Ireland . On his return to London , in 1814 , he met , at the house of Sir Joseph Banks , the celebrated geologist Baron Von Buch , whose habits and feelings being ...
... Scotland , visited North and South Wales , and scoured the mountains of Ireland . On his return to London , in 1814 , he met , at the house of Sir Joseph Banks , the celebrated geologist Baron Von Buch , whose habits and feelings being ...
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Página 379 - I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her ; but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death ; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms ; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel.
Página 192 - That it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent man should suffer.
Página 378 - His limbs were in proportion and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!— Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.
Página 455 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Página 192 - I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead,(/) for the sake of two cases, one mentioned in my lord Coke's PC cap.
Página 379 - I beheld the wretch — the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed ; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks.
Página 326 - Sleep breathes at last from out thee, My little patient boy ; And balmy rest about thee Smooths off the day's annoy. I sit me down, and think Of all thy winning ways : Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink, That I had less to praise.
Página 459 - Shakespear was no moralist at all : in another, he was the greatest of all moralists. He was a moralist in the same sense in which nature is one. He taught what he had learnt from her. He shewed the greatest knowledge of humanity with the greatest fellow-feeling for it.
Página 327 - His voice — his face — is gone ; " To feel impatient-hearted, Yet feel we must bear on ; Ah, I could not endure To whisper of such woe, Unless I felt this sleep ensure That it will not be so.
Página 379 - Wandering spirits, if indeed ye wander, and do not rest in your narrow beds, allow me this faint happiness, or take me, as your companion, away from the joys of life.