The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 202Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1857 - English essays |
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... shew so good a result of the labour of a long life ; - -a labour of love it must have been , for no mercenary spirit could have collected such a mass of materials , nor have received the assistance of so many friends : - " The author ...
... shew so good a result of the labour of a long life ; - -a labour of love it must have been , for no mercenary spirit could have collected such a mass of materials , nor have received the assistance of so many friends : - " The author ...
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66 thing in oratorical ease and power , although he has yet to shew that he possesses the resources and genius of his predecessor . Sir Charles Wood next starts up to defend the Admiralty . He would do so more effectively if he had not ...
66 thing in oratorical ease and power , although he has yet to shew that he possesses the resources and genius of his predecessor . Sir Charles Wood next starts up to defend the Admiralty . He would do so more effectively if he had not ...
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... shew the need of education among the lower classes , and has shewn so much liberality and superiority to the prejudices of his caste , that he is at the present moment the most popular member of the opposition among the gentlemen on the ...
... shew the need of education among the lower classes , and has shewn so much liberality and superiority to the prejudices of his caste , that he is at the present moment the most popular member of the opposition among the gentlemen on the ...
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... shew the darker from their striking contrast to the artless and devout excellence of the acccused , more than all that had gone before in her brief and chequered life - more than the sweetness of her childish days in the pleasant valley ...
... shew the darker from their striking contrast to the artless and devout excellence of the acccused , more than all that had gone before in her brief and chequered life - more than the sweetness of her childish days in the pleasant valley ...
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... shew the sentiments of the pro - slavery party , and their intentions as to the manner in which Kan- sas was to be made a Slave State . One Stingfellow addressed a crowd at St. Joseph , in Missouri , in the following terms : - " I tell ...
... shew the sentiments of the pro - slavery party , and their intentions as to the manner in which Kan- sas was to be made a Slave State . One Stingfellow addressed a crowd at St. Joseph , in Missouri , in the following terms : - " I tell ...
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Page 397 - With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Page 575 - MSS. employed by him, of their age and their peculiarities ; that he should add to the work a brief account of the life and times of the author, and any remarks necessary to explain the chronology ; but no other note or comment was to be allowed, except what might be necessary to establish the correctness of the text...
Page 405 - Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
Page 396 - And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies; A cap of flowers, and a kirtle...
Page 38 - And be it further enacted, that all that part of the territory of the United States included within the following limits, except such portions thereof as are hereinafter expressly exempted from the operations of this act, to wit, beginning at a point on the western boundary of the state of Missouri, where the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude crosses the same; thence west on said parallel to the...
Page 38 - Kansas ; and when admitted as a State or States, the said Territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their Constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission...
Page 486 - December instant ; and we being desirous and resolved, as soon as may be. to meet our people, and to have their advice in Parliament, do hereby make known to all our loving subjects our Royal will and pleasure to call a new Parliament...
Page 399 - But yet, alas ! but seldom I Do think indeed that I must die. Continually at my bed's head A hearse doth hang, which doth me tell That I ere morning may be dead, Though now I feel myself full well : But yet, alas ! for all this I Have little mind that I must die.
Page 350 - Her Majesty commands us to inform you, that acts of violence, insults to the British flag, and infraction of Treaty rights committed by the local Chinese authorities at Canton, and a pertinacious refusal of redress, have rendered it necessary for Her Majesty's officers in China to have recourse to measures of force to obtain satisfaction.
Page 47 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...