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... questions of a north - west passage , and the pro- bability of reaching the Arctic Pole . All national attempts at discovery , in those high northern latitudes , are entitled to the most unqualified thanks from the lovers of knowledge ...
... questions of a north - west passage , and the pro- bability of reaching the Arctic Pole . All national attempts at discovery , in those high northern latitudes , are entitled to the most unqualified thanks from the lovers of knowledge ...
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... question , engaged in feeding , was advancing with its mouth wide open , and ac- cidentally caught the line between its extended jaws - a sensation so utterly unusual as that produced by the line , had induced it to shut its mouth and ...
... question , engaged in feeding , was advancing with its mouth wide open , and ac- cidentally caught the line between its extended jaws - a sensation so utterly unusual as that produced by the line , had induced it to shut its mouth and ...
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... question is not , were they intimi- dating , visionary , and delusive , but were they such as might achieve his victory . This may not square with the rules and ordinances by which , according to closest criticism , perfection is to be ...
... question is not , were they intimi- dating , visionary , and delusive , but were they such as might achieve his victory . This may not square with the rules and ordinances by which , according to closest criticism , perfection is to be ...
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... questions -- all which are well known and justly appreciated . His description of the cruelties of Debi Sing , we insert ; because the speech from which it is taken is not to be found in Mr. Burke's works . Perhaps it would be ...
... questions -- all which are well known and justly appreciated . His description of the cruelties of Debi Sing , we insert ; because the speech from which it is taken is not to be found in Mr. Burke's works . Perhaps it would be ...
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... question here- I rose with the rising fortunes of my country - I am willing to die with her expiring liberties . To the voice of the people I will bow , but never shall I submit to the calumnies of an individual hired to betray them and ...
... question here- I rose with the rising fortunes of my country - I am willing to die with her expiring liberties . To the voice of the people I will bow , but never shall I submit to the calumnies of an individual hired to betray them and ...
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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.