Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 15W. Blackwood, 1824 |
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... character of whose people has attained the highest summit of honourable dis- tinction , whose trade embraces the world , and the opulence and industry of whose private citizens enable them to accomplish the most arduous under- takings ...
... character of whose people has attained the highest summit of honourable dis- tinction , whose trade embraces the world , and the opulence and industry of whose private citizens enable them to accomplish the most arduous under- takings ...
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... character in the British people which will , I trust , for ever defeat the secret machi- nations of the pretended friend , as well as the undisguised enmity of the au- dacious aggressor . Real danger , as it appears to me , is only to ...
... character in the British people which will , I trust , for ever defeat the secret machi- nations of the pretended friend , as well as the undisguised enmity of the au- dacious aggressor . Real danger , as it appears to me , is only to ...
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... character of a dan- gerous and rebellious confederation . It is very difficult to form an accurate estimate of the extent of popular con- spiracy in Ireland , at least in the be- ginning of its career , because they who refuse to enlist ...
... character of a dan- gerous and rebellious confederation . It is very difficult to form an accurate estimate of the extent of popular con- spiracy in Ireland , at least in the be- ginning of its career , because they who refuse to enlist ...
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... character , as a stain on that more than ducal spirit of mu- nificence so extensively displayed , and hitherto so proverbially untarnished . The introduction of such a question would create less surprise had it pre- ceded some late ...
... character , as a stain on that more than ducal spirit of mu- nificence so extensively displayed , and hitherto so proverbially untarnished . The introduction of such a question would create less surprise had it pre- ceded some late ...
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... character , a more rational and efficacious mode of communi- cating Christian instruction . Though , like an overgrown tree , its powers are now wasted in the production of bar- ren foliage , yet may the hand of a ju- dicious pruner ...
... character , a more rational and efficacious mode of communi- cating Christian instruction . Though , like an overgrown tree , its powers are now wasted in the production of bar- ren foliage , yet may the hand of a ju- dicious pruner ...
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Page 211 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which, I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me: I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold; as he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket...
Page 75 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, among them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Page 238 - Life of Andrew Melville. Containing Illustrations of the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Scotland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Crown 8vo, 6s. History of the Progress and Suppression of the Reformation in Italy in the Sixteenth Century.
Page 211 - I did not disapprove of the design, but, as Georgia was then destitute of materials and workmen, and it was proposed to send them from Philadelphia at a great expense, I thought it would have been better to have built the house here, and brought the children to it.
Page 67 - That the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British constitution and of the Christian religion, and that it ought to be gradually abolished throughout the British colonies with as much expedition as may be found consistent with a due regard to the well-being of the parties concerned.
Page 211 - I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all. At this sermon there was also one of our club, who, being of my sentiments respecting the building in Georgia, and suspecting a collection might be intended, had, by precaution, emptied his pockets before he came from home.
Page 405 - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
Page 75 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such, in our days, were the Poles, and such will be all masters of slaves who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.
Page 462 - Books that can be held in the hand, and carried to the fireside, are the best after all."— Samuel Johnson. " The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Page 209 - ... that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse, a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music.