The English Review, Or, An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature, Volume 17J. Murray, 1791 - Curiosities and wonders |
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... nature ( all perhaps arifing from the opprefied state of their country ) , fhould characterise the la- bouring emigrants to England , and give rife to the imputation of Beötian dulnefs , and a variety of proverbial pleafantries , can ...
... nature ( all perhaps arifing from the opprefied state of their country ) , fhould characterise the la- bouring emigrants to England , and give rife to the imputation of Beötian dulnefs , and a variety of proverbial pleafantries , can ...
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... nature , and willingly ferved them through the in- fluence of mistaken opinion . Common fenfe and conftant ob ... natural equality of mankind , lofes all its terrors , and fervitude , 7 fervitude , while it feems the effect of choice ...
... nature , and willingly ferved them through the in- fluence of mistaken opinion . Common fenfe and conftant ob ... natural equality of mankind , lofes all its terrors , and fervitude , 7 fervitude , while it feems the effect of choice ...
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... natural , interesting , and well contrafted . The characters are drawn from a correct obfervation of life . The ... nature should be fhort . Yet furely he who may compute his existence , not by the number of his years , but his good ...
... natural , interesting , and well contrafted . The characters are drawn from a correct obfervation of life . The ... nature should be fhort . Yet furely he who may compute his existence , not by the number of his years , but his good ...
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... nature has hitherto done . It is on these reasons that , when we confider the appearance of a more than ordinary energy on the female mind , we call it mafculine ; and hence it is that Pope has elegantly faid , A perfect woman's but a ...
... nature has hitherto done . It is on these reasons that , when we confider the appearance of a more than ordinary energy on the female mind , we call it mafculine ; and hence it is that Pope has elegantly faid , A perfect woman's but a ...
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... Nature intended the fubjection of the one fex to the other ; that confequently there must be an inferiority of intellect in the fubjected party ; but as man is a very imperfect being , and apt to play the capricious tyrant , Nature , to ...
... Nature intended the fubjection of the one fex to the other ; that confequently there must be an inferiority of intellect in the fubjected party ; but as man is a very imperfect being , and apt to play the capricious tyrant , Nature , to ...
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Page 93 - Christian, armed with a bayonet, holding me by the bandage that secured my hands. The guard round me had their pieces cocked ; but on my daring the ungrateful wretches to fire, they uncocked them.
Page 93 - M'Intosh and Norman, were also kept contrary to their inclination; and they begged of me, after I was astern in the boat, to remember that they declared they had no hand in the transaction. Michael Byrne, I am told, likewise wanted to leave the ship.
Page 205 - Three enormous trees, rudely carved and painted, formed the rafters, which were supported at the ends and in the middle by gigantic images, carved out of huge blocks of timber.
Page 93 - Samuel got 150 pounds of bread, with a small quantity of rum and wine, also a quadrant and compass ; but he was forbidden, on pain of death, to touch either map, ephemeris, book of astronomical observations, sextant, timekeeper, or any of my surveys or drawings. The mutineers having forced those of the seamen whom they meant to get rid of into the boat, Christian directed a dram to be served to each of his own crew.
Page 94 - ... and, without further ceremony, with a tribe of armed ruffians about me, I was forced over the side where they untied my hands. Being in the boat we were veered astern by a rope. A few pieces of pork were thrown to us, and some clothes, also the cutlasses I have already mentioned; and it was then that the armourer and carpenters called out to me to remember that they had no hand in the transaction. After having undergone a great deal of ridicule and been kept some time to make sport for these...
Page 93 - Particular people were called on to go into the boat, and were hurried over the side, whence I concluded that with these people I was to be set adrift. I therefore made another effort to bring about a change, but with no other effect than to be threatened with having my brains blown out.
Page 94 - The officers and men being in the boat, they only waited for me, of which the master-at-arms informed Christian, who then said, 'Come, Captain Bligh, your officers and men are now in the boat, and you must go with them; if you attempt to make the least resistance you will instantly be put to death...
Page 31 - ... of his life. They come from one, almost the whole of whose public exertion has been a struggle for the liberty of others; from one in whose breast no anger durable or vehement has ever been kindled, but by what he considered as tyranny...
Page 31 - They must respect that property of which they cannot partake. They must labour to obtain what by labour can be obtained ; and when they find, as they commonly do, the success disproportioned to the endeavour, they must be taught their consolation in the final proportions of eternal justice.