The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Zväzok 160A. Constable, 1884 |
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... remarkable man ; but , doubtless , it is the most important part for it comprises the most striking passages in his life , his negotiations in the allied camp , and his relations with the discontented party of Talleyrand and with the ...
... remarkable man ; but , doubtless , it is the most important part for it comprises the most striking passages in his life , his negotiations in the allied camp , and his relations with the discontented party of Talleyrand and with the ...
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... remarkable battle , which , in its conse- quences , hastened the fall of Napoleon . The Emperor , in- tending to repeat against Schwartzenberg , whose forces were scattered between the Aube and the Seine , the manœuvres which , a few ...
... remarkable battle , which , in its conse- quences , hastened the fall of Napoleon . The Emperor , in- tending to repeat against Schwartzenberg , whose forces were scattered between the Aube and the Seine , the manœuvres which , a few ...
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... remarkable achievements in Scottish family history associated with the name of that accomplished genealogist and antiquarian whom the late Sir William Stirling Max- well was wont to call the luminous and voluminous Fraser . ' These ...
... remarkable achievements in Scottish family history associated with the name of that accomplished genealogist and antiquarian whom the late Sir William Stirling Max- well was wont to call the luminous and voluminous Fraser . ' These ...
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... remarkable lady is from Taylor the Water Poet . In the character of the ' penni- ' less pilgrim , ' Taylor undertook a journey from London to Scotland without any money , evangelically trusting to the reputation of the Scots for ...
... remarkable lady is from Taylor the Water Poet . In the character of the ' penni- ' less pilgrim , ' Taylor undertook a journey from London to Scotland without any money , evangelically trusting to the reputation of the Scots for ...
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... remarkable for this type of Scottish aristocracy . For instance , James Grant , in 1640 , took an active part along with Argyll , Mont- rose , and others in the cause of the Covenant ; but , like the great Montrose himself , he turned ...
... remarkable for this type of Scottish aristocracy . For instance , James Grant , in 1640 , took an active part along with Argyll , Mont- rose , and others in the cause of the Covenant ; but , like the great Montrose himself , he turned ...
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Strana 298 - He will watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom, Nor heed nor see what things they be : But from these create he can Forms more real than living man, Nurslings of immortality.
Strana 34 - Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America, by Benjamin Franklin, LLD and FRS To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects.
Strana 304 - What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew, And beckoning woos me, from the fatal tree To pluck a garland for herself, or me?
Strana 394 - These wretched colonies will all be independent too in a few years, and are a millstone round our necks.
Strana 333 - Early at business, and at hazard late; Mad at a fox-chase, wise at a debate; Drunk at a borough, civil at a ball; Friendly at Hackney, faithless at Whitehall.
Strana 207 - Competition is put forth as the law of the universe. That is a lie. The time is come for us to declare that it is a lie by word and deed. I see no way but associating for work instead of for strikes.
Strana 331 - tis the fall degrades her to a whore; Let greatness own her, and she's mean no more: Her birth, her beauty, crowds and courts confess, Chaste matrons praise her, and grave bishops bless; In golden chains the willing world she draws, And hers the gospel is, and hers the laws; Mounts the tribunal, lifts her scarlet head, And sees pale Virtue carted in her stead.
Strana 249 - The penalty never travels on with the vessel further than to the end of the return voyage ; 2 and if she is taken in any part of that voyage, she is taken in delicto.
Strana 290 - I went through all the best critics*; almost all the English, French, and Latin poets, of any name : the minor poets, Homer, and some of the greater Greek poets, in the original; and Tasso and Ariosto in translations...
Strana 508 - China had recovered from her internal confusion, there was nothing to be gained and much to be lost by protracted resistance to the peoples of the West.