The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]., Volume 29John George Cochrane 1842 |
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... civil institutions of the middle ages been preserved with less of modern admixture than in the Russo - Germanic provinces on the Baltic . Successively they have become the trophies of Swedish , Polish , and Russian conquests ; and under ...
... civil institutions of the middle ages been preserved with less of modern admixture than in the Russo - Germanic provinces on the Baltic . Successively they have become the trophies of Swedish , Polish , and Russian conquests ; and under ...
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... civil as well as to the military service of Russia . The German names with which the senate and army are crowded , are mostly borne by the younger sons of the noble houses of the Baltic provinces . These men hold many of the most im ...
... civil as well as to the military service of Russia . The German names with which the senate and army are crowded , are mostly borne by the younger sons of the noble houses of the Baltic provinces . These men hold many of the most im ...
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... civil service of the crown . Indeed many people in Riga maintain , that the German population is declining , or at best stationary . The Slavonian suburbs , meanwhile , are constantly and clamorously knocking at the city gates , and com ...
... civil service of the crown . Indeed many people in Riga maintain , that the German population is declining , or at best stationary . The Slavonian suburbs , meanwhile , are constantly and clamorously knocking at the city gates , and com ...
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... civil and military officers stationed in the Baltic provinces , are constantly on the look - out for German wives . The younger sons of the nobles look to the public service of Russia as the most promising road to fortune ; and ...
... civil and military officers stationed in the Baltic provinces , are constantly on the look - out for German wives . The younger sons of the nobles look to the public service of Russia as the most promising road to fortune ; and ...
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... civil war , when the Huguenots were almost in despair at the death of Condé , which had taken place in the disastrous battle near Jarnac , Jeanne hastened to them to Saintes , whither the army had retreated , bringing with her a ...
... civil war , when the Huguenots were almost in despair at the death of Condé , which had taken place in the disastrous battle near Jarnac , Jeanne hastened to them to Saintes , whither the army had retreated , bringing with her a ...
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Page 335 - Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican with all his northern powers Besieged Albracca, as romances tell, The city of Gallaphrone, from thence to win The fairest of her sex Angelica, His daughter, sought by many prowest knights, Both Paynim, and the peers of Charlemain.
Page 167 - Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded; the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat; Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Ezekiel saw, when, by the vision led, His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah.
Page 463 - Conjectures and Researches concerning the Love, Madness, and Imprisonment of Torquato Tasso," which contains fine translations from Tasso and is otherwise valuable.
Page 337 - Gan thunder, and both ends of heaven ; the clouds From many a horrid rift abortive poured Fierce rain with lightning mixed, water with fire In ruin reconciled ; nor slept the winds Within their stony caves, but rushed abroad From the four hinges of the world, and fell On the vexed wilderness...
Page 340 - And the swink'd hedger at his supper sat ; I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Page 83 - Ce ne sont pas les hommes ici qui prient les femmes, ce sont les femmes qui prient les hommes.
Page 340 - Imperial rule of all the sea-girt isles, That, like to rich and various gems, inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep...
Page 477 - I never drink to excess, and have, without vanity, too much sense to be attached to the mercenary retailers of iniquity. No, it is my PRIDE, my damn'd native unconquerable PRIDE, that plunges me into distraction.
Page 477 - Upon recollection I don't know how Mr. Clayfield could come by his letter, as I intended to have given him a letter, but did not. In regard to my motives for the supposed rashness, I shall observe, that I keep no worse company than myself. I never drink to excess, and have without vanity too much sense to be attached to the mercenary retailers of iniquity.
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