The Quarterly review, المجلد 67Murray, 1841 |
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... English public at the time . We have since done a little towards supplying our deficiencies in this respect ; but if we were put through the same sort of catechism , most of us should still betray a lamentable degree of ignorance as to ...
... English public at the time . We have since done a little towards supplying our deficiencies in this respect ; but if we were put through the same sort of catechism , most of us should still betray a lamentable degree of ignorance as to ...
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... English society had about as accurate a notion of their respective claims to celebrity as Lord Melbourne of Mr. Faraday's , when it was proposed to add that gentleman's name to the pension - list . To prevent the recurrence of such ...
... English society had about as accurate a notion of their respective claims to celebrity as Lord Melbourne of Mr. Faraday's , when it was proposed to add that gentleman's name to the pension - list . To prevent the recurrence of such ...
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... English aristocracy - the other , the son of a Virginian farmer : the one , educated at Eton and Oxford - the other , picking up a little Latin grammar at a day - school : the one , reading Bailey's Dictionary twice over , and ...
... English aristocracy - the other , the son of a Virginian farmer : the one , educated at Eton and Oxford - the other , picking up a little Latin grammar at a day - school : the one , reading Bailey's Dictionary twice over , and ...
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... English country - town , and he probably discharged both . He made himself known by his political contributions to the newspapers , and was elected a member of the provincial assembly , where he so highly distin- guished himself as to ...
... English country - town , and he probably discharged both . He made himself known by his political contributions to the newspapers , and was elected a member of the provincial assembly , where he so highly distin- guished himself as to ...
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... English would plead for their navi- gation act , not as a source of gain , but as an essential means of securing their independence . So many interests would be disturbed , and so many lost , by a violent change from the existing to an ...
... English would plead for their navi- gation act , not as a source of gain , but as an essential means of securing their independence . So many interests would be disturbed , and so many lost , by a violent change from the existing to an ...
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الصفحة 8 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger ? Will it be the next week, or the next year ? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house...
الصفحة 27 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
الصفحة 42 - ... him where to strike. The fatal blow is given! and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death...
الصفحة 8 - Treason!" cried the speaker —"Treason, treason," echoed from every part of the house.
الصفحة 9 - There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery. Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable, and let it come ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace ! but there is no peace.
الصفحة 20 - If you speak of eloquence, Mr. Rutledge, of South Carolina, is by far the greatest orator ; but if you speak of solid information and sound judgment, Colonel Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on that floor.
الصفحة 522 - ... from the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
الصفحة 46 - Massachusetts, instead of South Carolina? Sir, does he suppose it in his power to exhibit a Carolina name so bright as to produce envy in my bosom?
الصفحة 16 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
الصفحة 17 - Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see, I see clearly, through this day's business. You and I, indeed, may rue it. We may not live to the time when this Declaration shall be made good. We may die ; die colonists ; die slaves; die, it may be, ignominiously and on the scaffold.