The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, 第 51 卷A. Constable, 1830 |
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... writers , we are concern- ed to say , are generally adverse to the claims of Mr Clerk -though so pointedly opposed to each other as mutually to detract from their authority , and respectively to disable their judgment . Sir Howard ...
... writers , we are concern- ed to say , are generally adverse to the claims of Mr Clerk -though so pointedly opposed to each other as mutually to detract from their authority , and respectively to disable their judgment . Sir Howard ...
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... writer of this article , by no means either a curious collector , or a student of naval tactics , has had a copy of it in that city for more than twenty years ; and had been familiar with another for a still longer period . before ...
... writer of this article , by no means either a curious collector , or a student of naval tactics , has had a copy of it in that city for more than twenty years ; and had been familiar with another for a still longer period . before ...
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... writer himself , to the merit of that discovery ; and , in the very face of what Sir Howard now contends for , gives the whole credit , both of conceiving and executing that manœuvre , to Sir George Rodney alone . In one of the extracts ...
... writer himself , to the merit of that discovery ; and , in the very face of what Sir Howard now contends for , gives the whole credit , both of conceiving and executing that manœuvre , to Sir George Rodney alone . In one of the extracts ...
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... writer of the Memoirs . Had it not been for the fates , and the stupidity of his servants , the king would have been uniformly successful and victorious . There is a fact mentioned near the beginning of the Memoirs , which may perhaps ...
... writer of the Memoirs . Had it not been for the fates , and the stupidity of his servants , the king would have been uniformly successful and victorious . There is a fact mentioned near the beginning of the Memoirs , which may perhaps ...
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... writers of great ability have treated this portion of our history . They content themselves either with railing against the opposi- tion made by the church , or with censuring the military conduct of Hamilton . Now , we must be excused ...
... writers of great ability have treated this portion of our history . They content themselves either with railing against the opposi- tion made by the church , or with censuring the military conduct of Hamilton . Now , we must be excused ...
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第 145 頁 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
第 505 頁 - The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward, forevermore.
第 542 頁 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
第 205 頁 - Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heaven. What terrors round him wait ! Amazement in his van, with flight combined, And sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.
第 199 頁 - ... in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.
第 502 頁 - HERE LIES BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of Independence, Of the Statutes of Virginia, for religious freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia.
第 505 頁 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory.
第 494 頁 - I think we shall be so as long as agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case while there remain vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there.
第 507 頁 - My mornings are devoted to correspondence. From breakfast to dinner, I am in my shops, my garden, or on horseback among my farms ; from dinner to dark...
第 507 頁 - A part of my occupation, and by no means the least pleasing, is the direction of the studies of such young men as ask it. They place themselves in the neighboring village, and have the use of my library and counsel, and make a part of my society.