Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 15W. Blackwood, 1824 |
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... interest of Great Britain ? -Volumes , not pages , are required , for giving even a very brief detail of the several items which make up the sum - total of Bri- tish industry , British power , and Bri- tish prosperity . Years , not days ...
... interest of Great Britain ? -Volumes , not pages , are required , for giving even a very brief detail of the several items which make up the sum - total of Bri- tish industry , British power , and Bri- tish prosperity . Years , not days ...
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... interests by length of lease . The rent which a man might thus bind himself to pay , was a minor consideration , as he always looked to an increasing value , particularly where the farm was sus- ceptible of any improvement . How , as he ...
... interests by length of lease . The rent which a man might thus bind himself to pay , was a minor consideration , as he always looked to an increasing value , particularly where the farm was sus- ceptible of any improvement . How , as he ...
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... interests . When to this advantage we add a resident chief governor , generally a man of ta- lents as well as rank , and a chief and under secretaries , always men of intel- ligence and political sagacity , I am at some loss to conceive ...
... interests . When to this advantage we add a resident chief governor , generally a man of ta- lents as well as rank , and a chief and under secretaries , always men of intel- ligence and political sagacity , I am at some loss to conceive ...
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... interest . The author appears to be gaining skill as to the manage- ment of fable ; although we are far from wishing him to believe that he is not still much below what he might make himself as to this point . In that and other minor ...
... interest . The author appears to be gaining skill as to the manage- ment of fable ; although we are far from wishing him to believe that he is not still much below what he might make himself as to this point . In that and other minor ...
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... interest to himself ; such as the range of the guns , and what execution would be done , if the French dared to sail in between the Needles , and much of the same import . At last the tide began to give signs of serving our pur- pose ...
... interest to himself ; such as the range of the guns , and what execution would be done , if the French dared to sail in between the Needles , and much of the same import . At last the tide began to give signs of serving our pur- pose ...
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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.