Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal EnlargedRalph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths R. Griffiths., 1822 Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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... thing , ' says he , that the most able and ingenious advocates for slavery have advanced , can stand against that powerful objection , that it is a practice morally wrong , and directly contrary to the best and dearest feelings of human ...
... thing , ' says he , that the most able and ingenious advocates for slavery have advanced , can stand against that powerful objection , that it is a practice morally wrong , and directly contrary to the best and dearest feelings of human ...
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... thing relating to cattle , is really astonishing ; of which numberless proofs have occurred in the course of these travels . When Magers and his companion were sent into the Bokkeveld to fetch home the oxen , the farmer of whom they ...
... thing relating to cattle , is really astonishing ; of which numberless proofs have occurred in the course of these travels . When Magers and his companion were sent into the Bokkeveld to fetch home the oxen , the farmer of whom they ...
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... thing bore all the rough jolting motion with a degree of patience and unconcern which plainly showed it to have been used to it from the day of its birth . While her head was turned aside to talk to her companions , I drew a sketch of ...
... thing bore all the rough jolting motion with a degree of patience and unconcern which plainly showed it to have been used to it from the day of its birth . While her head was turned aside to talk to her companions , I drew a sketch of ...
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... thing with water . The parched earth became , in the short time of five minutes , covered with ponds . The rain ceased as suddenly as it came on ; leaving me both startled and surprised , at this specimen of an African thunder shower ...
... thing with water . The parched earth became , in the short time of five minutes , covered with ponds . The rain ceased as suddenly as it came on ; leaving me both startled and surprised , at this specimen of an African thunder shower ...
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... thing intended as ornament , were to be seen upon them ; their persons , meagre and filthy , too plainly bespoke that hunger had often been their lot . Except when any game was caught in their pitfalls , which , they complained , seldom ...
... thing intended as ornament , were to be seen upon them ; their persons , meagre and filthy , too plainly bespoke that hunger had often been their lot . Except when any game was caught in their pitfalls , which , they complained , seldom ...
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Page 311 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ;—no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him ;— no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down -,—no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty; his body swells...
Page 310 - Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 310 - I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes liberty commensurate with, and inseparable from, British soil ; which proclaims even to the stranger and the sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation.
Page 419 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
Page 311 - EMANCIPATION. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ;—no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have...
Page 16 - The warlike steed is multiplied, we find, To wasps, and hornets of the warrior kind. Cut from a crab his crooked claws, and hide The rest in earth, a scorpion thence will glide, And shoot his sting; his tail in circles toss'd, Refers the limbs his backward father lost.
Page 80 - ENGROSSING was also described to be the getting into one's possession, or buying up, large quantities of corn, or other dead victuals, with intent to sell them again. This must of course be injurious to the public, by putting it in the power of one or two rich men to raise the price of provisions at their own discretion.
Page 151 - American bard, how far he can prudently observe it, and what success has crowned the efforts of those, who in their compositions have shown that they have not been unmindful of it, is perhaps not worth the inquiry. " Does it not appear to you, that, to give poetry a popular currency and universal reputation, a particular cast of manners and state of civilization is necessary? I have sometimes thought so, but perhaps it is an error, and the want of popular poems argues only the demerit of those who...
Page 360 - With this view, we strongly recommend instructors to supply themselves, when teaching the classics, with ancient maps and plans, and •with plates or drawings of ships, temples, houses, altars, domestic and sacred utensils, robes, and of every object of which they are likely to read. A classical garden, too, or a collection of plants and shrubs mentioned by the poets, would be a desirable accession to a school; nor would a collection of models of ancient warlike machinery be less useful. It is impossible...
Page 86 - Where the common law and a statute differ, the common law gives place to the statute . and an old statute gives place to a new one : and this upon a general principle of universal law, that " leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant ;" consonant to which it was laid down by a law of the Twelve Tables at Rome, that " quod populus postumum jussit, id jus ratum esto.