The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Svazek 33A. Constable, 1820 |
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... doubt it not - but the people of England are a fierce race , quarrelling ever with their neighbours or among themselves , and ready to plunge the sword into the bowels of each other . Such is no safe abode for the children of my people ...
... doubt it not - but the people of England are a fierce race , quarrelling ever with their neighbours or among themselves , and ready to plunge the sword into the bowels of each other . Such is no safe abode for the children of my people ...
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... doubt , eminently successful in supplying the Exchequer with money , and in enabling Government to go on without dif ficulty in providing for the expenses of the war ; but it has pro- bably contributed , more than any other measure , to ...
... doubt , eminently successful in supplying the Exchequer with money , and in enabling Government to go on without dif ficulty in providing for the expenses of the war ; but it has pro- bably contributed , more than any other measure , to ...
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... doubt , that the question involves that of the whole policy of our Govern- ment : For if Catholic emancipation were granted to Ireland , 20,671 men could not be necessary to assist the civil power , in times of acknowledged tranquillity ...
... doubt , that the question involves that of the whole policy of our Govern- ment : For if Catholic emancipation were granted to Ireland , 20,671 men could not be necessary to assist the civil power , in times of acknowledged tranquillity ...
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... doubt true , that the first duty of Government , in matters of finance , is to keep faith with the public creditor ; and it was on this principle that Parliament imposed the new taxes of the last Session . But if , even with these new ...
... doubt true , that the first duty of Government , in matters of finance , is to keep faith with the public creditor ; and it was on this principle that Parliament imposed the new taxes of the last Session . But if , even with these new ...
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... doubt- less would be , by candid overseers , and neighbours divested of every feeling of malice and partiality . The children are next to be taken from their parents , and lodged in immense pedago- gueries of several acres each , where ...
... doubt- less would be , by candid overseers , and neighbours divested of every feeling of malice and partiality . The children are next to be taken from their parents , and lodged in immense pedago- gueries of several acres each , where ...
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Strana 69 - 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?
Strana 68 - 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...
Strana 133 - 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.
Strana 16 - Thus exhorted Hubert resumed his place, and not neglecting the caution which he had received from his adversary, he made the necessary allowance for a very light air of wind, which had just arisen, and shot so successfully that his arrow alighted in the very centre of the target. " A Hubert! a Hubert!" shouted the populace, more interested in a known person than in a stranger. " In the clout! — in the clout! — a Hubert forever!" " Thou canst not mend that shot, Locksley," said the Prince, with...
Strana 15 - One by one the archers, stepping forward, delivered their shafts yeomanlike and bravely. Of twentyfour arrows shot in succession, ten were fixed in the target, and the others ranged so near it that, considering the distance of the mark, it was accounted good archery. Of the ten shafts which hit the target, two within the inner ring were shot by Hubert, a forester in the service of Malvoisin, who was accordingly pronounced victorious. "Now, Locksley...
Strana 28 - 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!
Strana 333 - 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.
Strana 27 - A singular novelty,' muttered the knight, ' to advance to storm such a castle without pennon or banner displayed! Seest thou who they be that act as leaders ?' 'A knight, clad in sable armour, is the most conspicuous,' said the Jewess; ' he alone is armed from head to heel, and seems to assume the direction of all around him.