The Quarterly Review, Volume 105William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1859 - English literature |
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... Established Church , and pos- sibly the recurrence of the scene presented by the Roman Catholic House of Commons in 1689. * Under existing circumstances we will not support your claims , and we could not compel their admission by the ...
... Established Church , and pos- sibly the recurrence of the scene presented by the Roman Catholic House of Commons in 1689. * Under existing circumstances we will not support your claims , and we could not compel their admission by the ...
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... established in 1782. ' The point on which the Opposition principally relied was the incompetency of Parliament to entertain the question . The debate continued without intermission twenty - one hours , * from Tuesday , January 22 , 4 ...
... established in 1782. ' The point on which the Opposition principally relied was the incompetency of Parliament to entertain the question . The debate continued without intermission twenty - one hours , * from Tuesday , January 22 , 4 ...
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... established reading . Mr. Dyce has succeeded in a department where so many have failed . He unites , indeed , the necessary qualifications in a sin- gular degree . He is an admirable classical scholar , is deeply read in Elizabethan ...
... established reading . Mr. Dyce has succeeded in a department where so many have failed . He unites , indeed , the necessary qualifications in a sin- gular degree . He is an admirable classical scholar , is deeply read in Elizabethan ...
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... established them- selves in the maritime dominions of another , it became necessary to determine who should administer the police of the seas in relation to each port and also exercise a proper jurisdiction over these colonies of ...
... established them- selves in the maritime dominions of another , it became necessary to determine who should administer the police of the seas in relation to each port and also exercise a proper jurisdiction over these colonies of ...
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... will suffice to give a picture of the political constitution of a body of Frenchmen established in a foreign country , being in fact , as in name , a Colony , Colony , of which the Consul was the executive officer 78 Consular Service .
... will suffice to give a picture of the political constitution of a body of Frenchmen established in a foreign country , being in fact , as in name , a Colony , Colony , of which the Consul was the executive officer 78 Consular Service .
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Page 227 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Page 193 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 20 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Page 220 - Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
Page 178 - I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.
Page 49 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 234 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them ; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Page 43 - O my love! my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 190 - Dear Bathurst (said he to me one day) was a man to my very heart's content : he hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a whig; he was a very good hater...
Page 20 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament, from the waters which were above the firmament : and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.