The Quarterly Review, Volume 53William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1835 |
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Pagina 4
... tion on this voyage , 3 ° north latitude , and he continued to recog- nize it almost daily as far as latitude 11 ° south - a distance of eight hundred and fifty miles . The length of aërïal voyages accom- plished by the huge albatross ...
... tion on this voyage , 3 ° north latitude , and he continued to recog- nize it almost daily as far as latitude 11 ° south - a distance of eight hundred and fifty miles . The length of aërïal voyages accom- plished by the huge albatross ...
Pagina 11
... tion , but would frequently beat and ill - use her . Whilst she adminis . tered to him the refreshing cup of kindness , he bestowed on her misery in return . Shortly after he had , in one instance , given way to his natural brutish ...
... tion , but would frequently beat and ill - use her . Whilst she adminis . tered to him the refreshing cup of kindness , he bestowed on her misery in return . Shortly after he had , in one instance , given way to his natural brutish ...
Pagina 16
... tion of Mr. Beale . Our author gives two amusing chapters to this old gentleman's aviary : we must be contented with ex- tracting a single specimen of them - he is talking of the mandarin duck : - A drake was stolen one night , with ...
... tion of Mr. Beale . Our author gives two amusing chapters to this old gentleman's aviary : we must be contented with ex- tracting a single specimen of them - he is talking of the mandarin duck : - A drake was stolen one night , with ...
Pagina 17
... tion to a disconsolate lady . It may perhaps be correctly written on a tablet over his grave- " A victim to conjugal fidelity . " Since we are on the chapter of Ducks , we may notice here our author's diverting account of the duck ...
... tion to a disconsolate lady . It may perhaps be correctly written on a tablet over his grave- " A victim to conjugal fidelity . " Since we are on the chapter of Ducks , we may notice here our author's diverting account of the duck ...
Pagina 21
... tion relative either to Jacquemont or his mission , ) that in June , 1828 , Jacquemont came to London to make some prepara- tory arrangements for his expedition . The translator taxes the French editor with something like ingratitude ...
... tion relative either to Jacquemont or his mission , ) that in June , 1828 , Jacquemont came to London to make some prepara- tory arrangements for his expedition . The translator taxes the French editor with something like ingratitude ...
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Pagina 490 - Now them that are such we command and exhort, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Pagina 92 - To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood; to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances, which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar; With sun and moon and stars throughout the year, And man and woman; 6 this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talents.
Pagina 148 - And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night...
Pagina 142 - Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion derived from the Literal Fulfilment of Prophecy, particularly as Illustrated by the History of the Jews, and the Discoveries of Recent Travellers.
Pagina 216 - His hand is against every man; and every man's hand is against him.
Pagina 155 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish...
Pagina 278 - But when contending chiefs blockade the throne, Contracting regal power to stretch their own, When I behold a factious band agree To call it freedom when themselves are free...
Pagina 168 - Who shall bring me down to the ground? Though thou exalt [thyself] as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.
Pagina 445 - To assume that the evidence of the beginning, or end, of so vast a scheme lies within the reach of our philosophical inquiries, or even of our speculations, appears to be inconsistent with a just estimate of the relations which subsist between the finite powers of man and the attributes of an infinite and eternal Being.
Pagina 140 - ... ....Each alley has its brother, " And half the plat-form just reflects the other.