The Metropolitan, Volume 2James Cochrane and Company, 1831 |
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... character - by a course of single - mindedness , candour , firmness , and decision unexampled in Irish affairs , has succeeded in producing a temporary calm , and in giving to the imperial government a moment of breathing time , which ...
... character - by a course of single - mindedness , candour , firmness , and decision unexampled in Irish affairs , has succeeded in producing a temporary calm , and in giving to the imperial government a moment of breathing time , which ...
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... characters of the Mysteries of the Castle , or the R Retreat , ' a little bird , who sits chirping at our elbow , has just ... character . Driving my cab along the Kensington road , I read , for the thousandth time , the thousand - times ...
... characters of the Mysteries of the Castle , or the R Retreat , ' a little bird , who sits chirping at our elbow , has just ... character . Driving my cab along the Kensington road , I read , for the thousandth time , the thousand - times ...
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... character of the dwellings of their inhabitants ? Embosomed in the most luxuriant ver- dure , cottages and temples peep through groves of old mango trees , and are shaded by the tall graceful tamarind , or rise from among clumps of ...
... character of the dwellings of their inhabitants ? Embosomed in the most luxuriant ver- dure , cottages and temples peep through groves of old mango trees , and are shaded by the tall graceful tamarind , or rise from among clumps of ...
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... character and aspect of Counlah underwent a change as sud- den and striking as her destiny : the timid , artless , shrinking maiden , un- schooled in misfortune , and dependent on others for almost every act and thought , under the ...
... character and aspect of Counlah underwent a change as sud- den and striking as her destiny : the timid , artless , shrinking maiden , un- schooled in misfortune , and dependent on others for almost every act and thought , under the ...
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... character over physiology , and gave a fresh impulse to the inquiry into its state which followed at a subsequent period . The great leading principle which Hunter sought to establish , was that of living action as distinct from ...
... character over physiology , and gave a fresh impulse to the inquiry into its state which followed at a subsequent period . The great leading principle which Hunter sought to establish , was that of living action as distinct from ...
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Page 50 - A DICTIONARY, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation.
Page 211 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 211 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 309 - ... country. Southey, by his marvellous excursions in the regions both of history and romance — Coleridge, by his wild fictions of a class entirely his own, in which there is an indescribable witchery of phrase and conceit, that affects the imagination as if one had eaten of " the insane root that takes the reason prisoner...
Page 81 - And they chaunted the deeds of Roland. Still the ramparted ground . With a vision my fancy inspires, And I hear the trump sound, As it marshalled our Chivalry's sires. On each turf of that mead Stood the captors of England's domains, That ennobled her breed And high-mettled the blood of her veins.
Page 149 - ... with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our Royal Proclamation, hereby...
Page 155 - ... them an hour together. If I had time I stayed by them to see them die, and see the manner of their death, and closed up their mouth and eyes ; for they died with their mouth and eyes very much open and staring. Then if people had nobody to help them (for help was scarce at such a time and place), I helped to lay them forth out of the bed, and afterwards into the coffin ; and, last of all, accompanied them to the ground.
Page 39 - Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.
Page 115 - King in person, who delivered the following speech: — " MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, " I AM at length enabled to put an end to a session of unexampled duration and labour, in which matters of the deepest interest have been brought under your consideration. I have felt sincere satisfaction in confirming, by my royal assent, bills for the amendment of the game laws, and for the reduction of taxes which pressed heavily on the industry of my people...
Page 115 - GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, " I thank you for the provision made for the future dignity and comfort of my Royal Consort, in the event of her surviving me, and for the supplies which you have granted for the service of the present year. You may be assured of my anxious care to have them administered with the strictest attention to a wellconsidered economy. The state of Europe has...