The Quarterly review, Volumen 21Murray, 1819 |
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... Lancaster Sound , and that there were no hopes of a passage until we should arrive at Cumberland Strait ; to use his own words , there was indication of a passage , " no no appearance of ǎ current , " no driftwood , " and " no swell ...
... Lancaster Sound , and that there were no hopes of a passage until we should arrive at Cumberland Strait ; to use his own words , there was indication of a passage , " no no appearance of ǎ current , " no driftwood , " and " no swell ...
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... Lancaster Sound or of the land to the southward of it ? From this Sound to Mount Raleigh , is just eight degrees of latitude , or 560 English miles , over which no European was ever known to have cast an eye ! Let us how- ever hear the ...
... Lancaster Sound or of the land to the southward of it ? From this Sound to Mount Raleigh , is just eight degrees of latitude , or 560 English miles , over which no European was ever known to have cast an eye ! Let us how- ever hear the ...
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... Lancaster Sound . As to drift - wood , ' Captain Sabine surely did not expect to find a floating forest in the lat . of 744 ° . Besides , how could he know what might have occurred farther on , or by the shores of this broad strait ...
... Lancaster Sound . As to drift - wood , ' Captain Sabine surely did not expect to find a floating forest in the lat . of 744 ° . Besides , how could he know what might have occurred farther on , or by the shores of this broad strait ...
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... Lancaster Sound , I have no doubt that it was the same , and consider it a most remarkable instance of the accuracy of that able navigator . * At a quarter past three , the weather again became thick and unsettled ; and being now ...
... Lancaster Sound , I have no doubt that it was the same , and consider it a most remarkable instance of the accuracy of that able navigator . * At a quarter past three , the weather again became thick and unsettled ; and being now ...
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... Lancaster's Sound ! It would have been but courteous in Captain Ross , at all events , to call up Captain Sabine , that he too might have seen the land and barrier of ice , and thus have enjoyed the triumph of having his anticipations ...
... Lancaster's Sound ! It would have been but courteous in Captain Ross , at all events , to call up Captain Sabine , that he too might have seen the land and barrier of ice , and thus have enjoyed the triumph of having his anticipations ...
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Página 50 - In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Página 61 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn ; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Página 54 - Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent yc shall all likewise perish.
Página 59 - If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men ; then the Lord hath not sent me. But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit ; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
Página 131 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Página 61 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Página 360 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Página 397 - To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the laugh, and the jeer ? Ah ! here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here.
Página 360 - The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?
Página 360 - To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names and predicament of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their Elysiums. But all this is nothing in the metaphysics of true belief.