The Monthly review. New and improved ser. New and improved ser, Volume 11839 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 57
Page
... Living Model Academy , & c . & c . VI . - 1 . Jamaica Plantership . By Benjamin M'Mahon , Eighteen Years employed in the Planting Line in that Island 511 2. The African Slave Trade . By Th . F. Buxton , Esq .. 524 VII . - 1 . Home ...
... Living Model Academy , & c . & c . VI . - 1 . Jamaica Plantership . By Benjamin M'Mahon , Eighteen Years employed in the Planting Line in that Island 511 2. The African Slave Trade . By Th . F. Buxton , Esq .. 524 VII . - 1 . Home ...
Page 34
... living grave - stone with its epitaph in blood . " Let no man talk of murderers escaping justice , and hint that Providence must sleep . There were twenty score of violent deaths in one long minute of that agony of fear . " There was a ...
... living grave - stone with its epitaph in blood . " Let no man talk of murderers escaping justice , and hint that Providence must sleep . There were twenty score of violent deaths in one long minute of that agony of fear . " There was a ...
Page 36
... living light , with one hand resting on the wooden slab before him , the other held to his ear , and his head thrust forward to enable him to catch with greater distinctness every word that fell from the presiding judge , who was ...
... living light , with one hand resting on the wooden slab before him , the other held to his ear , and his head thrust forward to enable him to catch with greater distinctness every word that fell from the presiding judge , who was ...
Page 54
... living presence of beauty around it - why , from the mountain's awful brow , and the lovely valleys and lakes touched with the sunset hues of old romance - why , from those venerable and touching ruins to which our very heart grows ...
... living presence of beauty around it - why , from the mountain's awful brow , and the lovely valleys and lakes touched with the sunset hues of old romance - why , from those venerable and touching ruins to which our very heart grows ...
Page 57
... living within those limits until that con- venience can be met . " In the mean time , permit those localities the post - office cannot supply to help themselves ; they will be thankful for the indulgence ; for let it be borne in mind ...
... living within those limits until that con- venience can be met . " In the mean time , permit those localities the post - office cannot supply to help themselves ; they will be thankful for the indulgence ; for let it be borne in mind ...
Contents
1 | |
20 | |
79 | |
98 | |
121 | |
140 | |
142 | |
143 | |
380 | |
387 | |
428 | |
445 | |
450 | |
451 | |
452 | |
453 | |
144 | |
145 | |
148 | |
149 | |
151 | |
152 | |
153 | |
225 | |
241 | |
300 | |
307 | |
309 | |
317 | |
334 | |
369 | |
454 | |
455 | |
456 | |
457 | |
476 | |
524 | |
541 | |
547 | |
560 | |
579 | |
588 | |
596 | |
604 | |
611 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
afford ancient animal Apothecaries appear beautiful Brissot Burn called character Charles Mathews church circumstances colony doubt England existence eyes fact father favour feeling forest friends genius Girondists Greece Greek hand head heart Herodotus history of Egypt Homer honour human Iliad interest King labour land letters living London look Lord Lord Brougham Lord Bute Machiavelli manner Mathews matter means ment mind ministers moral nation nature never notice observed occasion officers opinion party passage passed peculiar perfect perhaps period person Pisistratus Pitt poems poet political present principles Ptolemy Ptolemy Soter quote racter readers regard religious remarkable respect rience Russia scene Scotland seems society somatophylax South Australia spirit taste things thought tion truth Upper Canada volume whole writing young
Popular passages
Page 37 - The noise subsided, and he was asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him.
Page 162 - So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought ; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
Page 22 - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream ; And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole ; Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.
Page 172 - PER me si va nella città dolente, Per me si va nell' eterno dolore, Per me si va tra la perduta gente. Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore : Fecemi la divina potestate, La somma sapienza e il primo amore. Dinanzi a me non fur cose create, Se non eterne, ed io eterno duro : Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch...
Page 347 - It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Page 179 - Cosi dentro una nuvola di fiori, Che dalle mani angeliche saliva, E ricadeva giù dentro e di fuori. Sovra candido vel, cinta d'oliva Donna m' apparve, sotto verde manto, Vestita di color di fiamma viva. E lo spirito mio, che già cotanto Tempo era stato ch...
Page 347 - Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man though excluded from what is called the best society...
Page 390 - He was the first in the history of the Christian world to seek for religious security and peace, by the practice of justice, and not by the exercise of power; to plan the establishment of popular institutions, with the enjoyment of liberty of conscience; to advance the career of civilization, by recognising the rightful equality of all Christian sects.
Page 95 - I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was leveling my companions on every side...
Page 565 - ... and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time...