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... existence , beyond the means of the country , when it shall be restored to a healthy state of currency and capi- tal , to provide with employment . The measures adopted by Parliament in the last Session , for the gradual resump- tion of ...
... existence , beyond the means of the country , when it shall be restored to a healthy state of currency and capi- tal , to provide with employment . The measures adopted by Parliament in the last Session , for the gradual resump- tion of ...
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... existence , we would ask , Where are their Foxes , their Burkes , their Sheridans , their Windhams , their Horners , their Wilber- forces ? -where their Arkwrights , their Watts , their Davys ? - their Robertsons , Blairs , Smiths ...
... existence , we would ask , Where are their Foxes , their Burkes , their Sheridans , their Windhams , their Horners , their Wilber- forces ? -where their Arkwrights , their Watts , their Davys ? - their Robertsons , Blairs , Smiths ...
الصفحة 82
... existence , there being in these substances no in- termediate stage between fluidity and consolidation : 2. that the operation of the alleged cause would have given rise to other indications of disturbance , which do not actually appear ...
... existence , there being in these substances no in- termediate stage between fluidity and consolidation : 2. that the operation of the alleged cause would have given rise to other indications of disturbance , which do not actually appear ...
الصفحة 86
... existence ; for , I suppose , no one will claim for the mountains of Jura so high an antiquity as is conceded to Mont Blanc . It is some palliation , however , of this hypothesis , that it was constructed at a time when the imaginations ...
... existence ; for , I suppose , no one will claim for the mountains of Jura so high an antiquity as is conceded to Mont Blanc . It is some palliation , however , of this hypothesis , that it was constructed at a time when the imaginations ...
الصفحة 95
... existence ; but it would be the height of cold - blooded cruelty to get rid of them by any other than the most gentle and gradual means ; and not only would it be cruel , but extremely dangerous , to make the attempt . Insurrections of ...
... existence ; but it would be the height of cold - blooded cruelty to get rid of them by any other than the most gentle and gradual means ; and not only would it be cruel , but extremely dangerous , to make the attempt . Insurrections of ...
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الصفحة 76 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
الصفحة 139 - Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Bankrupt Laws ; and i This and the two preceding motions were lost by large majorities.
الصفحة 76 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
الصفحة 10 - One part of his dress only remains, but it is too remarkable to be suppressed; it was a brass ring, resembling a dog's collar, but without any opening, and soldered fast round his neck, so loose as to form no impediment to his breathing, yet so tight as to be incapable of being removed, excepting by the use of the file. On this singular gorget was engraved in Saxon characters, an inscription of the following purport:—" Gurth, the son of Beowulph, is the born thrall of Cedric of Rotherwood.
الصفحة 77 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue?
الصفحة 20 - When the two champions stood opposed to each other at the two extremities of the lists, the public expectation was strained to the highest pitch. Few augured the possibility that the encounter could terminate well for the Disinherited Knight, yet his courage and gallantry secured the general good wishes of the spectators. The trumpets had no sooner given the signal than the champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning, and closed in the centre of the lists with the shock of a thunderbolt.
الصفحة 38 - Heaven strike with the cause of the oppressed and of the captive!" She then uttered a loud shriek, and exclaimed, "He is down! - he is down!" "Who is down?" cried Ivanhoe; "for our dear Lady's sake, tell me which has fallen?" "The Black Knight/' answered Rebecca, faintly; then instantly again shouted with joyful eagerness - "But no - but no!
الصفحة 38 - I see him now ; he leads a body of men close under the outer barrier of the barbican. They pull down the piles and palisades ; they hew down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in the barriers — they rush in — they are thrust back ! — Front-de-Boeuf heads the defenders ; — I see his gigantic form above the press.
الصفحة 343 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed, Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
الصفحة 9 - ... in some places they were intermingled with beeches hollies and copsewood of various descriptions so closely as totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking sun in others they receded from each other forming those long sweeping vistas in the intricacy of which the eye delights to lose itself while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of sylvan solitude...