The London Quarterly Review, Volumen1Theodore Foster, 1810 |
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... reader ; but there is much which appears to be forgotten , or very imperfectly remembered ; and , as the ... reading the events of real history . A King surreptitiously.removed from the centre of his dominions ; transferred , with his ...
... reader ; but there is much which appears to be forgotten , or very imperfectly remembered ; and , as the ... reading the events of real history . A King surreptitiously.removed from the centre of his dominions ; transferred , with his ...
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... readers will probably recollect an early and curious example of this spirit , in a public letter from the Bishop of Orense , containing his reasons for refusing to attend the convocation at Bayonne . It was not a blind and arrogant ...
... readers will probably recollect an early and curious example of this spirit , in a public letter from the Bishop of Orense , containing his reasons for refusing to attend the convocation at Bayonne . It was not a blind and arrogant ...
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... readers will probably have smiled at observing that the Juntas , in their pub- lic addresses to the people , appeal to the battles of Pavia and of St. Quintin , as familiarly as we should quote the actions of the Nile and of Trafalgar ...
... readers will probably have smiled at observing that the Juntas , in their pub- lic addresses to the people , appeal to the battles of Pavia and of St. Quintin , as familiarly as we should quote the actions of the Nile and of Trafalgar ...
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... readers will recollect , was the state of things when the Supreme Junta first met , on the 25th September , at Aranjuez . That the integrity , the abilities , and the energy of its members , fitted them for their situation we must ...
... readers will recollect , was the state of things when the Supreme Junta first met , on the 25th September , at Aranjuez . That the integrity , the abilities , and the energy of its members , fitted them for their situation we must ...
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... readers will have anticipated some very obvious answers . 1st . The Portuguese go- vernment were the victims of their fidelity to us ; and we were bound in honour , though not under any direct engagement , to re - conquer Portugal if ...
... readers will have anticipated some very obvious answers . 1st . The Portuguese go- vernment were the victims of their fidelity to us ; and we were bound in honour , though not under any direct engagement , to re - conquer Portugal if ...
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Página 30 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Página 23 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Página 212 - As monumental bronze unchanged his look : A soul that pity touch'd, but never shook : Train'd, from his tree-rock'd cradle to his bier, The fierce extremes of good and ill to brook Impassive — fearing but the shame of fear — A stoic of the woods — a man without a tear.
Página 69 - ... in comparison. Then would he add certain praises by telling what a peerless beast the horse was, the only serviceable courtier, without flattery, the beast of most beauty, faithfulness, courage, and such more, that if I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse.
Página 84 - British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ; — no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him ; — no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down ; — no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil...
Página 18 - With the ready trick and fable Round we wander all the day; And at night, in barn or stable, Hug our doxies on the hay. A fig &c. Does the train-attended carriage Thro
Página 211 - The orison repeated in his arms, For God to bless her sire and all mankind ! The book, the bosom on his knee...
Página 242 - ... which was numerous and poor. Domingos therefore took a house for her, and removed to it for the purpose of contributing to the comfort of her latter days. Some of his friends represented to him that this was a rash undertaking for one who had no certain income, and no other reliance than on Providence ; to which he replied, that Providence, by which all things had their being, which provided for the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field, and which he beheld shining in the stars and vegetating...
Página 300 - Next in three books spoil'd human nature : Undid Creation at a jerk, And of Redemption made damn'd work. Then took his Muse at once, and dipt her Full in the middle of the Scripture. What wonders there the man, grown old, did ? Sternhold himself he out Sternholded. Made David seem so mad and freakish, All thought him just what thought King Achish. No mortal read his Solomon But judg'd Re'boam his own son. Moses...
Página 217 - The grief that knew not consolation's name : Casting his Indian mantle o'er the youth, He watch'd, beneath its folds, each burst that came Convulsive, ague-like across his shuddering frame ! 71 XXXV.