The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 113A. Constable, 1861 |
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... French alone is on a hill , and easily traced from a distance . Fair to look on is the capital of the Tycoon thus nestled in a broad valley , girdled with green woods and crowned by undulating hills , sloping with a gradual descent to ...
... French alone is on a hill , and easily traced from a distance . Fair to look on is the capital of the Tycoon thus nestled in a broad valley , girdled with green woods and crowned by undulating hills , sloping with a gradual descent to ...
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... French chargé d'affaires , when he arrived in the autumn of 1859 , a few months after the ports under treaty were opened , announced as among the presents sent from France , a piece of ordnance , and he was eagerly asked if it was ...
... French chargé d'affaires , when he arrived in the autumn of 1859 , a few months after the ports under treaty were opened , announced as among the presents sent from France , a piece of ordnance , and he was eagerly asked if it was ...
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... French Revolution , the royalist punsters and rhymesters had incom- parably the best of it : but their heads fell one by one under the guillotine , with the smartest epigrams still trembling on their lips . It is a mistake to suppose ...
... French Revolution , the royalist punsters and rhymesters had incom- parably the best of it : but their heads fell one by one under the guillotine , with the smartest epigrams still trembling on their lips . It is a mistake to suppose ...
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... French noëls ' and similar ballads had a literary vogue long preceding that attained by English political songs , and far surpass- ing it . ) C'est le goût des vaudevilles . On en fait chaque jour ' sur les personnes les plus ...
... French noëls ' and similar ballads had a literary vogue long preceding that attained by English political songs , and far surpass- ing it . ) C'est le goût des vaudevilles . On en fait chaque jour ' sur les personnes les plus ...
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... French for wit , with the Scotch for poetry or for vernacular vigour . Great insipidity now that the allusions have lost their temporary pungency- is its too general characteristic . Of poetical fire there is not 18 a touch . Wit ...
... French for wit , with the Scotch for poetry or for vernacular vigour . Great insipidity now that the allusions have lost their temporary pungency- is its too general characteristic . Of poetical fire there is not 18 a touch . Wit ...
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Admiralty Andorre Andorrian appear Austria authority Babrius Bacon ballads Bishop Bishops of Urgel cable Carlyle cause century character Charlemagne Church common conduct copper Counts of Foix CXIII Dixon doubt Duke Elizabeth England English Essex Eton Eton College evidence existence fact favour fleet Forbes foreign France French friends glacier motion Government gutta percha honour House Iceland interest Italian Italy Japanese John Home King labour laid land language Leicester less letters Lord Lord Auckland ment miles Minister nature naval Netherlands never observations opinion organisation Parliament Parma party passed Pitt political portion position present Prince probably Professor Provinces Queen question readers respect scarcely seems ships side slavery Spain Spanish Suakin Telegraph theory tion Tocqueville treaty truth Tyndall volume whole William the Silent wire words writing Yeddo
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Seite 498 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Seite 1858 - With a, full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Seite 331 - The place of justice is a hallowed place; and therefore not only the Bench, but the foot pace and precincts and purprise thereof ought to be preserved without scandal and corruption.
Seite 478 - Foundation for true interpreting, when he learned from it that, " in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted with Him.
Seite 545 - That in all that Territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of Thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited.
Seite 559 - Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
Seite 221 - THE GLACIERS OF THE ALPS : being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents. An Account of the Origin and Phenomena of Glaciers, and an Exposition of the Physical Principles to which they are related.
Seite 547 - Kansas, and when admitted as a state or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission...
Seite 168 - My friend, you owe this uncommon grief to your having thrown off the principles of religion ; for if you had not, you would have been consoled by the firm belief that the good lady, who was not only the best of mothers, but the most pious of Christians, was now completely happy in the realms of the just.
Seite 18 - Receive the HOLY GHOST for the Office and Work of a Priest " in the Church of GOD, now committed unto thee by the Impo