The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen192A. Constable, 1900 |
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... territory of the Saxons that the strenuous opposition began ; and when the country was partitioned by the treaty of Wedmore , the dividing line followed very closely that between Mercia and Wessex . Of course , we all know how strongly ...
... territory of the Saxons that the strenuous opposition began ; and when the country was partitioned by the treaty of Wedmore , the dividing line followed very closely that between Mercia and Wessex . Of course , we all know how strongly ...
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... territory which she had legally and peacefully inherited and had held for two centuries or more , solely because the French coveted it , is neither history , nor philosophy , nor common sense . The French , at any rate , give no support ...
... territory which she had legally and peacefully inherited and had held for two centuries or more , solely because the French coveted it , is neither history , nor philosophy , nor common sense . The French , at any rate , give no support ...
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... territorial war . But without being a demi - god , he may have been a very great man . Nor is it strange that to a very great man a great nation , in the throes of a revolution which stirred the depths of its soul , should have given ...
... territorial war . But without being a demi - god , he may have been a very great man . Nor is it strange that to a very great man a great nation , in the throes of a revolution which stirred the depths of its soul , should have given ...
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... territory of Senegal , was given to an officer who had left the navy as a lieutenant at the beginning of the Revolution and had had no connexion with it for five - and - twenty years . This officer was not less ignorant than desirous of ...
... territory of Senegal , was given to an officer who had left the navy as a lieutenant at the beginning of the Revolution and had had no connexion with it for five - and - twenty years . This officer was not less ignorant than desirous of ...
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... territory of the Dey and reduce him to submission by means of an army . The expedition was on a large scale . The fleet was composed of one hundred men - of - war of various sizes and five hundred and seventy - two merchant vessels ...
... territory of the Dey and reduce him to submission by means of an army . The expedition was on a large scale . The fleet was composed of one hundred men - of - war of various sizes and five hundred and seventy - two merchant vessels ...
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Página 372 - What, silent still? and silent all? Ah! no — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, "Let one living head, But one arise — we come, we come!
Página 373 - falls into the yellow Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.
Página 371 - And canst not alter now. The love where Death has set his seal, Nor age can chill, nor rival steal, Nor falsehood disavow: And, what were worse, thou canst not see Or wrong, or change, or fault in me. The better days of life were ours; The worst can be but mine: The sun that cheers, the storm that lowers, Shall never more be thine. The silence of that dreamless sleep I envy now too much to weep; Nor need I to repine That all those charms have pass'd away, I might have watch'd through long decay.
Página 373 - Is it some yet imperial hope , That with such change can calmly cope ? Or dread of death alone ? To die a prince — or live a slave — Thy choice is most ignobly brave ! VI.
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Página 103 - I had received from his Majesty, to add that, in the present instance, his Majesty does not intend to depart from the usual course of proceeding on such occasions. I am sorry to have delayed some hours this answer to your Grace's letter : but from the nature of the subject I did not like to forward it without having previously submitted it (together with your Grace's letter) to his Majesty.
Página 309 - Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance; and in the majority of young persons it speedily dies away if the occupations to which their position in life has devoted them, and the society into which it has thrown them are not favorable to keeping that higher capacity in exercise.
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Página 262 - No appeal shall be permitted to the Queen in Council from a decision of the High Court upon any question, howsoever arising, as to the limits inter se...