The Quarterly Review, Volume 34William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1826 |
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... equal one half of the earth's circumference , and which her genius has converted into a source of noble , honest wealth for herself , and of comfort for mankind . The history of the cotton manufacture in France is so meagre , and so ...
... equal one half of the earth's circumference , and which her genius has converted into a source of noble , honest wealth for herself , and of comfort for mankind . The history of the cotton manufacture in France is so meagre , and so ...
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... equal ; copper , lead , and pewter must be thrown into our scale . Now , until M. Dupin can prove that the consumption of jewellery is more profitable than that of hardware , we cannot admit the alleged superiority of his country ; and ...
... equal ; copper , lead , and pewter must be thrown into our scale . Now , until M. Dupin can prove that the consumption of jewellery is more profitable than that of hardware , we cannot admit the alleged superiority of his country ; and ...
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... equal in two nations , one of which has risen much above the other , the latter must be proportionally greater in that which has become pre- eminent . But how much more excessive must it not be , when physical means are smaller ! To ...
... equal in two nations , one of which has risen much above the other , the latter must be proportionally greater in that which has become pre- eminent . But how much more excessive must it not be , when physical means are smaller ! To ...
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... equal to about 4,000,000 of cubic metres ; their weight is 10,400,000 tons ; which raised to the height of eleven metres from the bottom of the quarries to the surface of the earth , and of forty - nine more as their mean elevation ...
... equal to about 4,000,000 of cubic metres ; their weight is 10,400,000 tons ; which raised to the height of eleven metres from the bottom of the quarries to the surface of the earth , and of forty - nine more as their mean elevation ...
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... equal to 320,000 horses , or about 2,240,000 men . At this moment steam , on account of its many new applications , and the improvements made in the manner of employing it , may perform the work of near three millions of men , in the ...
... equal to 320,000 horses , or about 2,240,000 men . At this moment steam , on account of its many new applications , and the improvements made in the manner of employing it , may perform the work of near three millions of men , in the ...
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Page 154 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 90 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed; For each seemed either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on...
Page 354 - O God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea : and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips...
Page 137 - Augustus at Rome was for building renown'd, And of marble he left what of brick he had found ; But is not our Nash, too, a very great master ? — He finds us all brick and he leaves us all plaster.
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Page 217 - The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask...
Page 241 - More sweet than odours caught by him who sails Near spicy shores of Araby the blest, A thousand times more exquisitely sweet, The freight of holy feeling which we meet, In thoughtful moments, wafted by the gales From fields where good men walk, or bowers wherein they rest.