The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 38Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith E. Littell & T. Holden, 1840 |
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... Empire , there is none which is of such para- religion - would not be so much amiss , just now . mount and growing importance as the extension of 1 feel uncommon inclined that way , somehow . " " Religion's all very well for them that ...
... Empire , there is none which is of such para- religion - would not be so much amiss , just now . mount and growing importance as the extension of 1 feel uncommon inclined that way , somehow . " " Religion's all very well for them that ...
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... empire . With Russia , it worse ; the manufacturers are waiting for your deci- is universally admitted , we are in a state closely sion , and if that be against them they will instantly bordering on hostility ; it is only a question of ...
... empire . With Russia , it worse ; the manufacturers are waiting for your deci- is universally admitted , we are in a state closely sion , and if that be against them they will instantly bordering on hostility ; it is only a question of ...
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... empire of Great Britain has been done , the incalculable importance of the British multiplied above five - fold , and the chances of hos- tility with which we are brought in contact at different points over the globe , have been ...
... empire of Great Britain has been done , the incalculable importance of the British multiplied above five - fold , and the chances of hos- tility with which we are brought in contact at different points over the globe , have been ...
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... empire ? In this view the pires , which , before a century has elapsed , may last inconvenience attending a redundant pauper po- overshadow the greatness even of European renown . pulation - that of being with difficulty removed , Are ...
... empire ? In this view the pires , which , before a century has elapsed , may last inconvenience attending a redundant pauper po- overshadow the greatness even of European renown . pulation - that of being with difficulty removed , Are ...
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... empire . If we look to our exports and tonnage strength of the state or the dangers with which it is returns , we shall see that our maritime resources for threatened , is by giving the masses some present the last forty years have been ...
... empire . If we look to our exports and tonnage strength of the state or the dangers with which it is returns , we shall see that our maritime resources for threatened , is by giving the masses some present the last forty years have been ...
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Page 181 - Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night...
Page 157 - Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?
Page 181 - Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding.
Page 158 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.
Page 157 - ... daily haunts us with dying mementos and time that grows old in itself bids us hope no long duration; diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation.
Page 158 - Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their reliques, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, . and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration.
Page 158 - To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days, and, our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorows are not kept raw by the edge of repetitions.
Page 158 - Even old ambitions had the advantage of ours, in the attempts of their vain glories, who, acting early, and before the probable meridian of time, have, by this time, found great accomplishment of their designs, whereby the ancient heroes have already outlasted their monuments, and mechanical preservations. But in this latter scene of time we cannot expect such mummies unto our memories, when ambition may fear the prophecy of Elias, and Charles the Fifth can never hope to live within two Methuselah's...
Page 343 - Then was committed that great crime, memorable for its singular atrocity, memorable for the tremendous retribution by which it was followed. The English captives were left at the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of the garrison, a chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole.
Page 346 - No mob attacked by regular soldiers was ever more completely routed. The little band of Frenchmen who alone ventured to confront the English, were swept down the stream of fugitives. In an hour the forces of Surajah Dowlah were dispersed, never to reassemble. Only five hundred of the vanquished were slain. But their camp, their guns, their baggage, innumerable waggons, innumerable cattle, remained in the power of the conquerors.