The Quarterly Review, Volume 55John Murray, 1836 |
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... the Working of New System in the British West India Colonies . By John Innes NOTE Concerning an Article in No. CV . NOTE on Cooke's Memoirs of Bolingbroke ' 250 286 286 ART . CONTENTS OF No. CX . Page · I. CONTENTS .
... the Working of New System in the British West India Colonies . By John Innes NOTE Concerning an Article in No. CV . NOTE on Cooke's Memoirs of Bolingbroke ' 250 286 286 ART . CONTENTS OF No. CX . Page · I. CONTENTS .
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... colonies of Belgium seem not to have succeeded , having involved themselves in debt exceeding the amount of property created in them . The report of M. Dupéctiaux is very unfavour- able to these colonies ; but , with the example of the ...
... colonies of Belgium seem not to have succeeded , having involved themselves in debt exceeding the amount of property created in them . The report of M. Dupéctiaux is very unfavour- able to these colonies ; but , with the example of the ...
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... colonies find a situation where they might be more sure of a coarse abundance soon , and by - and - bye of accumulated wealth while there is a vast and daily increasing demand for mere labour of every sort , so that individuals of the ...
... colonies find a situation where they might be more sure of a coarse abundance soon , and by - and - bye of accumulated wealth while there is a vast and daily increasing demand for mere labour of every sort , so that individuals of the ...
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... colonies . Two other new books on South Africa have reached us — the ' Wanderings ' of Mr. Steedman , in 2 vols . 8vo . , and the Re- searches in Caffraria ' of the Rev. Stephen Kay , a missionary , 1 vol . 12mo . We cannot say much for ...
... colonies . Two other new books on South Africa have reached us — the ' Wanderings ' of Mr. Steedman , in 2 vols . 8vo . , and the Re- searches in Caffraria ' of the Rev. Stephen Kay , a missionary , 1 vol . 12mo . We cannot say much for ...
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... colonies , the estate of the Pellews . The father , however , was the youngest of six sons , and seems to have had no other patrimony than that great and bountiful field of English enterprise , the SEA , which his forefathers had ...
... colonies , the estate of the Pellews . The father , however , was the youngest of six sons , and seems to have had no other patrimony than that great and bountiful field of English enterprise , the SEA , which his forefathers had ...
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Page 470 - See him in the dish, his second cradle, how meek he lieth! wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood? Ten to one he would have proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable animal - wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation - from these sins he is happily snatched away Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade. Death came with timely care...
Page 470 - ... and dulcifying a substance, naturally so mild and dulcet as the flesh of young pigs. It looks like refining a violet. Yet we should be cautious, while we condemn the inhumanity, how we censure the wisdom of the practice. It might impart a gusto — I remember an hypothesis, argued upon by the young students, when I was at St.
Page 77 - Our vows, our prayers, we now present Before Thy throne of grace; God of our fathers, be the God Of their succeeding race.
Page 127 - My father's spirit in arms ! all is not well; I doubt some foul play: 'would, the night were come! Till then sit still, my soul: Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
Page 470 - We read of pigs whipt to death with something of a shock, as we hear of any other obsolete custom. The age of discipline is gone by, or it would be curious to inquire (in a philosophical light merely) what effect this process might have towards intenerating and dulcifying a substance naturally so mild and dulcet as the flesh of young pigs.
Page 451 - It was not for gain that Bacon, Newton, Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. . . . When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his ' Paradise Lost,' he did not reject it and commit his poem to the flames, nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labours ; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it...
Page 77 - Through each perplexing path of life Our wandering footsteps guide : Give us each day our daily bread. And raiment fit provide. 4 O spread thy covering wings around, Till all our wanderings cease, And, at our Father's loved abode, Our souls arrive in peace.
Page 451 - I wish popularity : but it is that popularity, which follows, not that which is run after; it is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means.
Page 470 - Whether, supposing that the flavour of a pig who obtained his death by whipping (per flagellationem extremam) superadded a pleasure upon the palate of a man more intense than any possible suffering we can conceive in the animal, is man justified in using that method of putting the animal to death?
Page 480 - He has the command of regular servant* without having to pay or to manage them. He can have whatever meal or refreshment he wants, at all hours, and served up with the cleanliness and comfort of his own house. He orders just what he pleases, having no interest to think of but his own. In short, it is impossible to suppose a greater degree of liberty in living.