The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 108A. Constable, 1858 |
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... French legions beyond the banks of the Rhine . We resume this inquiry at the culminating point to which the French Empire had been raised in 1809 , by the illimitable ambition of its chief , and the inexhaustible ardour of a nation of ...
... French legions beyond the banks of the Rhine . We resume this inquiry at the culminating point to which the French Empire had been raised in 1809 , by the illimitable ambition of its chief , and the inexhaustible ardour of a nation of ...
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... French commercial blockade , and at Naples a Marshal of France filled the throne of the Angevine kings . This magnificent creation was no triumph of Cæsar or Charle- magne over barbarous tribes ; it was a triumph over empires defended ...
... French commercial blockade , and at Naples a Marshal of France filled the throne of the Angevine kings . This magnificent creation was no triumph of Cæsar or Charle- magne over barbarous tribes ; it was a triumph over empires defended ...
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... French harbours should be closed against all ships , not in actual distress , which had touched at British ports , and that ' neutral sailors found in British ships should be put to death . ' The chief difference between this decree and ...
... French harbours should be closed against all ships , not in actual distress , which had touched at British ports , and that ' neutral sailors found in British ships should be put to death . ' The chief difference between this decree and ...
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... French ports . We pass , therefore , to the third question- Was the Con- tinental System a failure or a success ? The chief principle on which this system was maintained rested on the assumption that it was essential to the subju ...
... French ports . We pass , therefore , to the third question- Was the Con- tinental System a failure or a success ? The chief principle on which this system was maintained rested on the assumption that it was essential to the subju ...
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... French ports are open , will ac- knowledge that our trade cannot have been greatly injured in the South - west . The treaty of January , 1809 , re - estab- lished our trade with Turkey ; and the ukase of the 31st of December , 1810 ...
... French ports are open , will ac- knowledge that our trade cannot have been greatly injured in the South - west . The treaty of January , 1809 , re - estab- lished our trade with Turkey ; and the ukase of the 31st of December , 1810 ...
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Page 85 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 254 - A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand ; Left on the shore ; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white.
Page 240 - I find his grace my very good lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me, as any subject within this realm : howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof, for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us), it should not fail to go.
Page 127 - Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind, Let all their thoughts be unconfined, And clap your padlock on the mind.
Page 121 - CANDOUR, - which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well; Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame, Convinced that all men's motives are the same; — And finds, with keen discriminating sight, BLACK'S not so black; - nor WHITE so very white.
Page 123 - Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U — — niversity of Gottingen, — — niversity of Gottingen.
Page 121 - Both must be blamed, both pardoned ; — 'twas just so With Fox and Pitt full forty years ago ; So Walpole, Pulteney ; — factions in all times, Have had their follies, ministers their crimes." Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow ; But of all plagues, good heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh ! save me from the candid friend...
Page 510 - I cannot tell, but conclude they were all lost. For my own part, I swam as fortune directed me and was pushed forward by wind and tide. I...
Page 239 - ... till he waxed weary. Verily, God be thanked, I hear no harm of him now. And of all who ever came in my hand for heresy, as help me God, else had never any of them any stripe or stroke given them, so much as a fillip in the forehead...
Page 510 - Six of the Crew, of whom I was one, having let down the Boat into the Sea, [xao] made a Shift to get clear of the Ship, and the Rock.