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... late Robert R. Liy- ingston . ART . VI . [ Ship Timber . ] Report of the Navy Commis- sioners , to the Secretary of the Navy - 9th Dec. 1820 . ART . VII . [ Lord Byron . ] 1. Marino Faliero , Doge of Venice . 2. The Prophecy of Dante ...
... late Robert R. Liy- ingston . ART . VI . [ Ship Timber . ] Report of the Navy Commis- sioners , to the Secretary of the Navy - 9th Dec. 1820 . ART . VII . [ Lord Byron . ] 1. Marino Faliero , Doge of Venice . 2. The Prophecy of Dante ...
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... Ignorance . 214 ( Extracts . ) 221 ART . VIII . Messrs . Perkins and Fairman's inventions . ( From the Journal of Science , & c . London . ) 238 List of Late Publications . 250 THE LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC REPOSITORY . VOL . III . Contents .
... Ignorance . 214 ( Extracts . ) 221 ART . VIII . Messrs . Perkins and Fairman's inventions . ( From the Journal of Science , & c . London . ) 238 List of Late Publications . 250 THE LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC REPOSITORY . VOL . III . Contents .
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... late voyage of Captain Parry promises to aid us greatly in the undertaking , and we wait impatiently for the moment when an authentic relation of his progress may enable us to build up something of a theory , whose foun- dation can be ...
... late voyage of Captain Parry promises to aid us greatly in the undertaking , and we wait impatiently for the moment when an authentic relation of his progress may enable us to build up something of a theory , whose foun- dation can be ...
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... late war . Mr. Scoresby is very confident of the national advantages to be derived from the Whale fisheries , and gives us some data by which we can judge of the correctness of his position . It is clearly evident , that in a trade ...
... late war . Mr. Scoresby is very confident of the national advantages to be derived from the Whale fisheries , and gives us some data by which we can judge of the correctness of his position . It is clearly evident , that in a trade ...
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... late decision of the learned against the use of the word , but that we have been obliged to adopt the " parlance " of seamen , and can only speak of marine affairs in the language they use . ART . II . Specimens of Irish Eloquence , now ...
... late decision of the learned against the use of the word , but that we have been obliged to adopt the " parlance " of seamen , and can only speak of marine affairs in the language they use . ART . II . Specimens of Irish Eloquence , now ...
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Seite 102 - tis haunted, holy ground ; No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould, But one vast realm of wonder spreads around, And all the Muse's tales seem truly told, Till the sense aches with gazing to behold The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt upon...
Seite 493 - That light we see is burning in my hall ; how far that little candle throws its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world...
Seite 61 - I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph; sometime sitting in the shade like a Goddess; sometime singing like an angel; sometime playing like Orpheus. Behold the sorrow of this world! Once amiss, hath bereaved me of all.
Seite 33 - I find myself unable to manage it with decorum; these details are of a species of horror so nauseous and disgusting, they are so degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers, they are so humiliating to human nature itself, that on better thoughts I find it more advisable to throw a pall over this hideous object, and to leave it to your general conceptions.
Seite 32 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
Seite 54 - I know not Which is best, to see you dead, or part with you. — Farewell, boy: Thou art happy that thou hast not understanding To know thy misery; for all our wit And reading brings us to a truer sense Of sorrow. — In the eternal church, sir, I do hope we shall not part thus.
Seite 32 - Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Seite 102 - And yet how lovely in thine age of woe, Land of lost gods and godlike men, art thou ! Thy vales of evergreen, thy hills of snow, Proclaim thee Nature's varied favourite now ; Thy fanes, thy temples to thy surface bow, Commingling slowly with heroic earth, Broke by the share of every rustic plough : So perish monuments of mortal birth, So perish all in turn, save well-recorded Worth ; LXXXVI.
Seite 65 - ... an evasion by a syllable or word to abuse thee ;* if for a poor man, thou must pay it thyself; if for a rich man...
Seite 98 - The truth is, that in these days the grand primum mobile of England is cant : cant political, cant poetical, cant religious, cant moral ; but always cant, multiplied through all the varieties of life.