The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Том 22A. Constable, 1814 |
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... carried off one hundred in three . If , in such a case , we could * Mr Collins . His work is a most valuable and authentic docu ment . See Review of his 2d vol , in our 3d Number . look to the settlement as a colonial speculation , we ...
... carried off one hundred in three . If , in such a case , we could * Mr Collins . His work is a most valuable and authentic docu ment . See Review of his 2d vol , in our 3d Number . look to the settlement as a colonial speculation , we ...
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... carried on by contract , the government pay ing a fixed price for the whole expenses of each convict , and the contractor having the whole profit , as he has the entire charge and regulation , of the work to be performed , but allowing ...
... carried on by contract , the government pay ing a fixed price for the whole expenses of each convict , and the contractor having the whole profit , as he has the entire charge and regulation , of the work to be performed , but allowing ...
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... carried somewhat too far ; as we meet with heads apparently composed of single examples ; and a certain want of keeping is observable ( to use the language of painters ) : for Mr Dumont frequently dwells as much on the di visions thus ...
... carried somewhat too far ; as we meet with heads apparently composed of single examples ; and a certain want of keeping is observable ( to use the language of painters ) : for Mr Dumont frequently dwells as much on the di visions thus ...
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... carry his illegal mandate into execution , the instrument of his tyranny was liable to be punished according to all the seve- rity of the lex talionis . If a rico - hombre or caballero , commit- ting violence within the district ...
... carry his illegal mandate into execution , the instrument of his tyranny was liable to be punished according to all the seve- rity of the lex talionis . If a rico - hombre or caballero , commit- ting violence within the district ...
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... carry any great weight of metal ; but , placed in a curious and novel scene , he has describ- ed what he saw from day to day , and preserved , for the amuse- ment of his readers , the impressions which those scenes made upon him , while ...
... carry any great weight of metal ; but , placed in a curious and novel scene , he has describ- ed what he saw from day to day , and preserved , for the amuse- ment of his readers , the impressions which those scenes made upon him , while ...
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Страница 62 - Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart ; Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord.
Страница 64 - Thus we are in the condition of patients, who have physic sent them by doctors at a distance, strangers to their constitution and the nature of their disease...
Страница 33 - There — in the west ! and now, alas, 'tis gone ! — 'Twas all a dream ! we gaze and gaze in vain ! But mark and speak not, there it comes again ! It moves ! — what form unseen, what being there With torch-like lustre fires the murky air ? His instincts, passions, say, how like our own ! O, when will day reveal a world unknown...
Страница 70 - Here is a specimen of the new and pure aristocracy created by the right honourable gentleman,* as the support of the crown and constitution, against the old, corrupt, refractory, natural interests of this kingdom ; and this is the grand counterpoise against all odious coalitions of these interests.
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Страница 63 - Thomas, Earl of Wharton, lord lieutenant of Ireland, by the force of a wonderful constitution, has some years passed his grand climacteric, without any visible effects of old age, either on his body or his mind ; and in spite of a continual prostitution to those vices, which usually wear out both. His behaviour is in all the forms of a young man at five-and-twenty. Whether he walks, or whistles, or swears, or talks bawdy, or calls names, he acquits himself in each, beyond a templar of three years...
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