The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ..., Band 55

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J. Dodsley, 1814

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Seite 540 - And he who in the strife expires Will add to theirs a name of fear That Tyranny shall quake to hear, And leave his sons a hope, a fame, They too will rather die than shame : For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son, Though baffled oft is ever won.
Seite 540 - These scenes - their story not unknown Arise, and make again your own; Snatch from the ashes of your sires The embers of their former fires, And he who in the strife expires Will add to theirs a name of fear. That Tyranny shall quake to hear.
Seite 529 - Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; and say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, thus saith the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
Seite 3 - That an humble address be presented to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent to...
Seite 28 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Seite 136 - Treaty, concluded and signed at Paris, by the Emperors of Austria and Russia, and the King of Prussia.
Seite 30 - I believe, that no act in itself unjust, immoral, or wicked, can ever be justified or excused by or under pretence or colour, that it was done either for the good of the church, or in obedience to any ecclesiastical power whatsoever.
Seite 451 - He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men; he loves no plays As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort, As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Seite 540 - ... ever won. Bear witness, Greece, thy living page. Attest it many a deathless age! While kings in dusty darkness hid, Have left a nameless pyramid, Thy heroes, though the general doom Hath swept the column from their tomb. A mightier monument command, The mountains of their native land! There points thy Muse to stranger's eye The graves of those that cannot die! Twere long to tell, and sad to trace. Each step from splendour to disgrace; Enough—no foreign foe could quell Thy soul, till from itself...
Seite 31 - ... their muscular substance ; the cartilage of the nose was gone ; but the left eye, in the first moment of exposure was open and full, though it vanished almost immediately, and the pointed beard, so characteristic of the period of the reign of King Charles, was perfect. The shape of the face was a long oval; many of the teeth remained ; and the left ear, in consequence of the interposition of the unctuous matter between it and the cere-cloth, was found entire.

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