The Quarterly Review, Band 76William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1845 |
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... population of the British isles , from the first institution of the inquiry in 1801 , to the preparatory arrangements for 1841. In the Act appoint- ing the Census of 1831 , the abstracts from the returns were re- quired to be laid ...
... population of the British isles , from the first institution of the inquiry in 1801 , to the preparatory arrangements for 1841. In the Act appoint- ing the Census of 1831 , the abstracts from the returns were re- quired to be laid ...
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... population in that period has only been 5.25 . This general increase of wholesome accommodation renders more ominous its decrease in Scotland , especially in the mercan- tile and manufacturing districts . In Greenock the decrease of the ...
... population in that period has only been 5.25 . This general increase of wholesome accommodation renders more ominous its decrease in Scotland , especially in the mercan- tile and manufacturing districts . In Greenock the decrease of the ...
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... population of Scotland now bears to the inhabited houses is rather above that exhibited in 1831. ' We English folks are accustomed to boast of having the word comfort , and the ideas associated with it , almost peculiarly our own . But ...
... population of Scotland now bears to the inhabited houses is rather above that exhibited in 1831. ' We English folks are accustomed to boast of having the word comfort , and the ideas associated with it , almost peculiarly our own . But ...
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... population could only add to the present very general complaint of either an absolute want of employment , or of the necessity of labouring for a pittance insufficient to the common comforts of existence . It is not strange that the ...
... population could only add to the present very general complaint of either an absolute want of employment , or of the necessity of labouring for a pittance insufficient to the common comforts of existence . It is not strange that the ...
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... populations . Besides emigration , however , there is an obvious cause for a less rapid increase in a population essentially agricultural , and where there is little new capital ready to be expended on improving the land . For the ...
... populations . Besides emigration , however , there is an obvious cause for a less rapid increase in a population essentially agricultural , and where there is little new capital ready to be expended on improving the land . For the ...
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Seite 15 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; * if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles, fall.
Seite 462 - Offending race of human kind, By nature, reason, learning, blind; You who through frailty...
Seite 239 - His Britannic Majesty, on his side, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholic religion to the inhabitants of Canada; he will, in consequence, give the most precise and most effectual orders, that his new Roman Catholic subjects may profess the worship of their religion according to the rites of the Romish church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permit.
Seite 132 - It is the best English book, beyond comparison, that ever has appeared for the illustration, not merely of the general topography and local curiosities, but of the national character and manners of Spain, her arts, antiquities, peculiarities, &c.
Seite 82 - I wish it were still in my power to be a hypocrite in this particular. The common duties of society usually require it ; and the ecclesiastical profession only adds a little more to an innocent dissimulation, or rather simulation, without which it is impossible to pass through the world.
Seite 303 - It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Seite 193 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround — Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
Seite 296 - It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other -women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.
Seite 436 - There were Chesterfield and Fanny, In that eternal whisper which begun Ten years ago, and never will be done; For though you know he sees her every day, Still he has ever something new to say.
Seite 296 - Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet...