Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle, Volumen 2James Maxwell, 1813 |
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... greater portion of it is easily drawn from the letters already before the public : some of the personal qualities are assumed on very slight authority : but the almost constant residence in or near London during the specified period ...
... greater portion of it is easily drawn from the letters already before the public : some of the personal qualities are assumed on very slight authority : but the almost constant residence in or near London during the specified period ...
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most trivial presumptive circumstances , and to be capable of being invalidated in a greater variety of ways than the pretensions of almost any other of the claimants . We think this examination , perhaps , the best written part of the ...
most trivial presumptive circumstances , and to be capable of being invalidated in a greater variety of ways than the pretensions of almost any other of the claimants . We think this examination , perhaps , the best written part of the ...
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... greater aggregate of presumptions in his favour . " His age , and rank in life , his talents and learning , his brilliant wit , and sarcastic habit , his common residence during the period in question , his political prin- ciples ...
... greater aggregate of presumptions in his favour . " His age , and rank in life , his talents and learning , his brilliant wit , and sarcastic habit , his common residence during the period in question , his political prin- ciples ...
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... greater frequency of ingenious sparkles - less of what may be at least comparatively denominated a plain direct style of writing - a less sparingness , as if in disdain , of rhetorical device and ornament - a less uniformly sustained ...
... greater frequency of ingenious sparkles - less of what may be at least comparatively denominated a plain direct style of writing - a less sparingness , as if in disdain , of rhetorical device and ornament - a less uniformly sustained ...
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... greater - for , during that century , Scotland had been stationary , if not retrograde , and the people were in a more savage state than even the worst of the wild Irish at the present day . Fletcher , of Saltoun , gives a dreadful ...
... greater - for , during that century , Scotland had been stationary , if not retrograde , and the people were in a more savage state than even the worst of the wild Irish at the present day . Fletcher , of Saltoun , gives a dreadful ...
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Página 80 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horseshoe nail.
Página 389 - Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb ; Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away!
Página 388 - The sting she nourished for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain...
Página 387 - O'er emerald meadows of Kashmeer Invites the young pursuer near, And leads him on from flower to flower A weary chase and wasted hour, Then leaves him, as it soars on high, With panting heart and tearful eye : So Beauty lures the full-grown child, With hue as bright, and wing as wild ; A chase of idle hopes and fears, Begun in folly, closed in tears.
Página 451 - I desire to enjoy it with your love and consent, that we may always live together as neighbors and friends ; else what would the great God do to us, who hath made us not to devour and destroy one another but to live soberly and kindly together in the world?
Página 28 - In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.
Página 389 - Such is the aspect of this shore; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath...
Página 469 - All that could be done was to fan him with paper, and frequently to give him lemonade to alleviate his intense thirst. He was in great pain, and expressed much anxiety for the event of the action, which now began to declare itself. As often as a ship struck, the crew of the Victory...
Página 470 - I have called two or three of our fresh ships round, and have no doubt of giving them a drubbing." "I hope," said Nelson, "none of our ships have struck?" Hardy answered, "There was no fear of that.
Página 469 - Hardy ; and as that officer, though often sent for, .could not leave the deck, Nelson feared that some fatal cause prevented him, and repeatedly cried ; " Will no one bring Hardy to me ? He must be killed ! He is surely dead !". An hour and ten minutes elapsed from the time when Nelson received his wound, before Hardy could come to him.