The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Том 97Archibald Constable and Company, 1825 |
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... never brought forward more than four or five mortars where we undertook the capture of a fortified place . Hence the bombard- ment was futile ; so that at last the issue was to be staked on mounting a breach , and fighting hand to hand ...
... never brought forward more than four or five mortars where we undertook the capture of a fortified place . Hence the bombard- ment was futile ; so that at last the issue was to be staked on mounting a breach , and fighting hand to hand ...
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... never be sa- tisfactorily determined . " One obvious exception to this plan presented it- self on the present occasion : The Peishwa Bajee Rao could never be trusted , after his original perfidy in un- provokedly forming a wide ...
... never be sa- tisfactorily determined . " One obvious exception to this plan presented it- self on the present occasion : The Peishwa Bajee Rao could never be trusted , after his original perfidy in un- provokedly forming a wide ...
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... never re - marbled at all , so that now it is merely daubed with plaster , and some paltry and decayed painting . The effect is very bad where this front is presented , after examining the other wall all clothed in polished marbles ...
... never re - marbled at all , so that now it is merely daubed with plaster , and some paltry and decayed painting . The effect is very bad where this front is presented , after examining the other wall all clothed in polished marbles ...
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... never will bring matters to a conclusion . Count Meinhard will make his niece his heiress , and we are sent empty away . Were she once only fairly immured in a clois- ter , his estates could not escape us . We should then have terrified ...
... never will bring matters to a conclusion . Count Meinhard will make his niece his heiress , and we are sent empty away . Were she once only fairly immured in a clois- ter , his estates could not escape us . We should then have terrified ...
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... never de- tect . It is by comparison and con- trast that these vices are rendered glaring , and the taste continues acute and sound . But wisdom and erudi- tion are the accumulation of ages ; and how can he appreciate the merits of a ...
... never de- tect . It is by comparison and con- trast that these vices are rendered glaring , and the taste continues acute and sound . But wisdom and erudi- tion are the accumulation of ages ; and how can he appreciate the merits of a ...
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Страница 64 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Страница 425 - Accordingly we find, that, in every kingdom, into which money begins to flow in greater abundance than formerly, every thing takes a new face: labour and industry gain life; the merchant becomes more enterprising, the manufacturer more diligent and skilful, and even the farmer follows his plough with greater alacrity and attention.
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Страница 64 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative animal.
Страница 462 - Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies. Some pious drops the closing eye requires; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who mindful of th...
Страница 519 - From every latent foe, , From the assassin's blow, God save the King. O'er him thine arm extend, For Britain's sake, defend Our father, prince, and friend, God save the King.
Страница 425 - ... money be in a greater or less quantity. The good policy of the magistrate consists only in keeping it, if possible, still increasing; because by that means he keeps alive a spirit of industry in the nation, and increases the stock of labour in which consists all real power and riches.
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Страница 392 - that we were welcome! and whatever he could show us would give him pleasure : that he had ordered huts to be built for us in the town; and that we might then go, accompanied by one of his people, to see them; and that when we were recovered from the fatigue of our long journey, he would be happy to see us.
Страница 344 - The truth is," says one of the greatest authorities in Indian affairs, " that, from the day on which the company's troops marched one mile from their factories, the increase of their territories and their armies became a principle of self-preservation ; and at the end of every one of those numerous contests in which they were involved by the jealousy, avarice, or ambition of their neighbours, or the rapacity or ambition of their own servants, they were forced to adopt measures for improving their...