The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year ...G. Robinson, Pater-noster-Row, 1804 - English poetry |
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... give , and which would be a vote of direct and cordial appro- bation to the address . Before he proceeded , he should just say a few words respecting an expression in the address which might appear to stand in need of explanation ...
... give , and which would be a vote of direct and cordial appro- bation to the address . Before he proceeded , he should just say a few words respecting an expression in the address which might appear to stand in need of explanation ...
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... give their vote on the present occasion , for breaking the treaty and recommencing hos- tilities . Supposing for a moment that war was to be renewed , gen- tlemen would do well to reflect in what manner hostilities would be conducted ...
... give their vote on the present occasion , for breaking the treaty and recommencing hos- tilities . Supposing for a moment that war was to be renewed , gen- tlemen would do well to reflect in what manner hostilities would be conducted ...
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... give his as- sent . If , however , the fact were as gentlemen represented it , if hu- man beings were to perish to gra- tify any passion of our nature , he should rather that their blood should flow to gratify the roman- tic ambition of ...
... give his as- sent . If , however , the fact were as gentlemen represented it , if hu- man beings were to perish to gra- tify any passion of our nature , he should rather that their blood should flow to gratify the roman- tic ambition of ...
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... give the address his cordial support . Mr. Canning succeeded . He was a friend to the address , on the principle that it recommended a ' system of vigour , which seemed to have been too long wanting in our national councils . He ...
... give the address his cordial support . Mr. Canning succeeded . He was a friend to the address , on the principle that it recommended a ' system of vigour , which seemed to have been too long wanting in our national councils . He ...
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... give rise to a variety of considerations . But he had no difficulty in saying , that after such a war as that in which we had been engaged , the continuance of peace , under all cir- cumstances , was to be wished for . Yet he should ...
... give rise to a variety of considerations . But he had no difficulty in saying , that after such a war as that in which we had been engaged , the continuance of peace , under all cir- cumstances , was to be wished for . Yet he should ...
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Page 218 - My Mary ! And should my future lot be cast With much resemblance of, the past, Thy worn-out heart will break at last, My Mary ! ON THE ICE ISLANDS, SEEN FLOATING IN THE GERMAN 'JO.
Page 217 - Thy silver locks, once auburn bright, Are still more lovely in my sight Than golden beams of orient light, My Mary! For could I view nor them nor thee, What sight worth seeing could I see? The sun would rise in vain for me, My Mary! Partakers of thy sad decline, Thy hands their little force resign; Yet, gently prest, press gently mine, My Mary!
Page 3 - Thou know'st my praise of Nature most sincere, And that my raptures are not conjured up To serve occasions of poetic pomp, But genuine, and art partner of them all.
Page 193 - ... become in the same proportion to the population, as at the period from which we set out. The situation of the labourer being then again tolerably comfortable, the restraints to population are in some degree loosened; and, after a short period, the same retrograde and progressive movements, with respect to happiness, are repeated.
Page 177 - But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa ; and he found a ship going to Tarshish : so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
Page ix - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its author ; salvation for its end ; and truth without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Page 178 - And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
Page 179 - Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Page 195 - These checks, and the checks which repress the superior power of population, and keep its effects on a level with the means of subsistence, are all resolvable into moral restraint, vice, and misery.
Page 212 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.