The Quarterly review, Volume 67Murray, 1841 |
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... Minister of the Duke Street Gaëlic Church , Glasgow VIII . - 1 . England's Threatened War with the World . 2. Progress and present Position of Russia in the East . 3. Mehemet Ali - Lord Palmerston - Russia - and France . By William ...
... Minister of the Duke Street Gaëlic Church , Glasgow VIII . - 1 . England's Threatened War with the World . 2. Progress and present Position of Russia in the East . 3. Mehemet Ali - Lord Palmerston - Russia - and France . By William ...
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... ministers of the established church of Virginia ( the Church of England ) were then paid in kind , i.e. each was ... minister , nothing remained but to assess the damages under a writ of inquiry . The leading counsel of the colony threw ...
... ministers of the established church of Virginia ( the Church of England ) were then paid in kind , i.e. each was ... minister , nothing remained but to assess the damages under a writ of inquiry . The leading counsel of the colony threw ...
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... minister demanded why they followed him about : Mr. Henry is not a god.'No , indeed , my friend , ' was the reply ; I am but a poor worm , as fleeting and unsubstantial as the shadow of the cloud that flies over your fields , and is ...
... minister demanded why they followed him about : Mr. Henry is not a god.'No , indeed , my friend , ' was the reply ; I am but a poor worm , as fleeting and unsubstantial as the shadow of the cloud that flies over your fields , and is ...
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... minister observed that they were proofs of his father's ascendancy in the House ; but that no specimens remained of the eloquence by which that ascendancy was procured . The gentleman recommended him to read slowly his father's speeches ...
... minister observed that they were proofs of his father's ascendancy in the House ; but that no specimens remained of the eloquence by which that ascendancy was procured . The gentleman recommended him to read slowly his father's speeches ...
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... minute acquaintance with our country - seats and villages , though we are not aware that he ever paid visit of any duration to this country . D 2 country . In 1833 he was appointed minister to St. American Orators and Statesmen . 35.
... minute acquaintance with our country - seats and villages , though we are not aware that he ever paid visit of any duration to this country . D 2 country . In 1833 he was appointed minister to St. American Orators and Statesmen . 35.
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Page 8 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger ? Will it be the next week, or the next year ? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house...
Page 27 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 42 - ... him where to strike. The fatal blow is given! and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death...
Page 8 - Treason!" cried the speaker —"Treason, treason," echoed from every part of the house.
Page 9 - There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery. Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable, and let it come ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace ! but there is no peace.
Page 20 - If you speak of eloquence, Mr. Rutledge, of South Carolina, is by far the greatest orator ; but if you speak of solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on that floor.
Page 522 - ... from the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 46 - Massachusetts, instead of South Carolina? Sir, does he suppose it in his power to exhibit a Carolina name so bright as to produce envy in my bosom?
Page 16 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Page 17 - Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see, I see clearly, through this day's business. You and I, indeed, may rue it. We may not live to the time when this Declaration shall be made good. We may die ; die colonists ; die slaves; die, it may be, ignominiously and on the scaffold.