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... success of this third volume of CONTEMPORARY BIOGRA- PHY . Impartiality , whether political , moral , or per- sonal , is a feature upon which we rely as pecu- liary characteristic of our undertaking . We have given fair and free scope ...
... success of this third volume of CONTEMPORARY BIOGRA- PHY . Impartiality , whether political , moral , or per- sonal , is a feature upon which we rely as pecu- liary characteristic of our undertaking . We have given fair and free scope ...
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... success . The inventions and improve . ments of Messrs . Boulton and Watt were first imi- tated , and then either decried or disputed . Reason laboured in vain to silence the clamours of injustice , and defeat the stratagems of fraud ...
... success . The inventions and improve . ments of Messrs . Boulton and Watt were first imi- tated , and then either decried or disputed . Reason laboured in vain to silence the clamours of injustice , and defeat the stratagems of fraud ...
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... success of our neigh- bours , and the knowledge of our resources , have disposed me to wish , that our Latin memorials of the middle age , the Scriptores Rerum Anglicarum , might be published in England , in a manner worthy of the ...
... success of our neigh- bours , and the knowledge of our resources , have disposed me to wish , that our Latin memorials of the middle age , the Scriptores Rerum Anglicarum , might be published in England , in a manner worthy of the ...
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... success ; but no sooner did we seriously consult about the best means of pro- moting that success , and of reducing a pleasing theory into a real action , then we were stopped , at the first step , by an insuperable difficulty - the ...
... success ; but no sooner did we seriously consult about the best means of pro- moting that success , and of reducing a pleasing theory into a real action , then we were stopped , at the first step , by an insuperable difficulty - the ...
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... success hitherto seemed to have awakened all the energies , and to have roused every honourable feeling of which the human heart is capable . * Our readers will be gratified with the following extract from Mr. Wilberforce's speech on ...
... success hitherto seemed to have awakened all the energies , and to have roused every honourable feeling of which the human heart is capable . * Our readers will be gratified with the following extract from Mr. Wilberforce's speech on ...
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Page 446 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Page 215 - Europe he would hold a distinguished rank among men of letters, and as such he has already appeared there ; at present he is employed with activity and perseverance in the management of his farms and buildings ; and he orders, directs and pursues in the minutest detail every branch of business relative to them.
Page 338 - I saw our friend twice after this was done, less peevish in his sickness than he used to be in his health ; neither much afraid of dying, nor (which in him had been more likely) much ashamed of marrying. The evening before he expired, he called his young wife to the bedside, and earnestly entreated her not to deny him one request, the last he should make.
Page 121 - Why delight In human sacrifice ? Why burst the ties Of Nature, that should knit their souls together In one soft bond of amity and love...
Page 275 - Where shaggy forms o'er ice-built mountains roam, The Muse has broke the twilight gloom To cheer the shivering native's dull abode. And oft, beneath the odorous shade Of Chili's boundless forests laid, She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat, In loose numbers wildly sweet, Their feather-cinctured chiefs, and dusky loves. Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and generous Shame, The...
Page 338 - ... receive; for, if you observe, matrimony is placed after extreme unction in our catechism, as a kind of hint of the order of time in which they are to be taken.
Page 220 - These swords are accompanied with an injunction not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it be for self-defence, or in defence of their country and its rights ; and in the latter case, to keep them unsheathed, and prefer falling with them in their hands to the relinquishment thereof.
Page 105 - That for the purpose of providing for the exercise of the Royal authority during the continuance of his Majesty's illness, in such manner, and to such extent, as the present circumstances and the urgent concerns of the nation appear to require, it is expedient that His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, being resident within the realm, shall be empowered to exercise and administer the Royal Authority, according to the laws...
Page 416 - This government, adhering to the maxims which it has followed for more than a century, will also never see with indifference that France shall make herself, either directly or indirectly, sovereign of the Low Countries, or general arbitress of the rights and liberties of Europe.
Page 261 - Every insurrection, lawyers alleged, which in judgment of law is intended against the person of the King, be it to dethrone or imprison him, or to oblige him to alter his measures of government, or to remove 'evil counsellors from about him, these risings all amount to levying war within the statute, whether attended with the pomp and circumstances of open war or •not.