New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volumen117Henry Colburn, 1859 |
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... hundred years would be neces- sary ; and to supply the demands of such a navy as England possesses at this time would absorb annually the produce of nearly fourteen thousand acres . The demands for the different dockyards of France are ...
... hundred years would be neces- sary ; and to supply the demands of such a navy as England possesses at this time would absorb annually the produce of nearly fourteen thousand acres . The demands for the different dockyards of France are ...
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... hundred and sixty - seven years in- tervening between 1688 and 1855 , sixty - seven were devoted to war and carnage . During the whole of that time , whoever else might be against us , the French were our most constant and indefatigable ...
... hundred and sixty - seven years in- tervening between 1688 and 1855 , sixty - seven were devoted to war and carnage . During the whole of that time , whoever else might be against us , the French were our most constant and indefatigable ...
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... hundreds of wild aromatic shrubs ; and the brilliant fire - flies glanced their ruby light in many a mazy round . It was the voluptuous hour which the black inhabitants of the West India Islands dedicate to unmixed , undisturbed ...
... hundreds of wild aromatic shrubs ; and the brilliant fire - flies glanced their ruby light in many a mazy round . It was the voluptuous hour which the black inhabitants of the West India Islands dedicate to unmixed , undisturbed ...
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... hundred negroes . When the boats ' crews boarded the vessel , they found four hundred negroes still on board , who were taken to Sierra Leone . The slaver was burnt , and during the operation , her men fired on the Sappho's boats from ...
... hundred negroes . When the boats ' crews boarded the vessel , they found four hundred negroes still on board , who were taken to Sierra Leone . The slaver was burnt , and during the operation , her men fired on the Sappho's boats from ...
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... hundred blows of the chicote . It has been proved that by the three hundredth blow of this enormous knotted lash the strongest man is cut to ribbons and deprived of life . The Casa de Correcção is situated at Matacavallos , one of the ...
... hundred blows of the chicote . It has been proved that by the three hundredth blow of this enormous knotted lash the strongest man is cut to ribbons and deprived of life . The Casa de Correcção is situated at Matacavallos , one of the ...
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Página 36 - Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part Of me and of my soul, as I of them?
Página 166 - He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men ; he loves no plays As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music ; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort, As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Página 294 - Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil, That mak'st my blood cold and my hair to stare ? Speak to me what thou art.
Página 50 - I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me. I have no repugnances. Shaftesbury is not too genteel for me, nor Jonathan Wild too low.
Página 302 - But shapes that come not at an earthly call, Will not depart when mortal voices bid ; Lords of the visionary eye whose lid Once raised, remains aghast and will not fall...
Página 300 - He hath overleaped the eternal bars ; And, following guides whose craft holds no consent With aught that breathes the ethereal element, Hath stained the robes of civil power with blood, Unjustly shed, though for the public good. Whence doubts that came too late, and wishes vain, Hollow excuses, and triumphant pain ; And oft his cogitations sink as low As, through the abysses of a joyless heart, The heaviest plummet of despair can go...
Página 439 - Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error, and a sufficient application of legal or even of social penalties will generally succeed in stopping the propagation of either. The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it...
Página 50 - Draught Boards, bound and lettered on the back, Scientific Treatises, Almanacks, Statutes at Large : the works of Hume, Gibbon, Robertson, Beattie, Soame Jenyns, and, generally, all those volumes which " no gentleman's library should be without : " the Histories of Flavius Josephus (that learned Jew), and Paley's Moral Philosophy.
Página 333 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Página 166 - Let me have men about me that are fat ; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.