The Quarterly Review, Volume 7William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1812 |
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... human or di- vine , can only be effectually opposed by retorting on himself the evils of his own injustice . ' The wisdom of our ancestors was pro- bably as sound and practical in the reign of Queen Elizabeth , as in any period of our ...
... human or di- vine , can only be effectually opposed by retorting on himself the evils of his own injustice . ' The wisdom of our ancestors was pro- bably as sound and practical in the reign of Queen Elizabeth , as in any period of our ...
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... human flesh by the severity of a winter famine , they had continued the diet by choice , and made mikkiak of their dead ; that is , they laid them in a pit with other meat , and so eat the flesh half raw and half frozen . These human ...
... human flesh by the severity of a winter famine , they had continued the diet by choice , and made mikkiak of their dead ; that is , they laid them in a pit with other meat , and so eat the flesh half raw and half frozen . These human ...
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... human means can remove or lessen them . As long as the ice continues floating the weather is fickle and stormy , and the tides are irregular ; but as soon as the islands become fixed in the gulphs and inlets , the weather grows calm ...
... human means can remove or lessen them . As long as the ice continues floating the weather is fickle and stormy , and the tides are irregular ; but as soon as the islands become fixed in the gulphs and inlets , the weather grows calm ...
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... human habitation , and almost entirely unknown to the na- tives themselves . There are no wolves in the island ; the Ice- landers will keep out the bears ; and the rein deer , being almost unmolested unmolested by man , will have no ...
... human habitation , and almost entirely unknown to the na- tives themselves . There are no wolves in the island ; the Ice- landers will keep out the bears ; and the rein deer , being almost unmolested unmolested by man , will have no ...
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... human sacrifices , their promiscuous intercourse , their child murder , and other unutterable abominations . How much happier , amidst all the terrors of nature , the poor and virtuous Icelander ! Perhaps it is not possible to produce a ...
... human sacrifices , their promiscuous intercourse , their child murder , and other unutterable abominations . How much happier , amidst all the terrors of nature , the poor and virtuous Icelander ! Perhaps it is not possible to produce a ...
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Page 188 - Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? By their right arms the conquest must be wrought? Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? no!
Page 195 - Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul: Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul...
Page 156 - And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
Page 293 - who should teach them all things, and bring all things to their remembrance whatsoever he had said unto them...
Page 378 - LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM. OH ! the days are gone, when Beauty bright My heart's chain wove ; When my dream of life from morn till night Was love, still love. New hope may bloom, And days may come Of milder, calmer beam, But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream : No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.
Page 378 - No ; — life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns ; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers. Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Page 377 - On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When the clear, cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days, In the wave beneath him shining! Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days that are over, Thus, sighing, look through the waves of time For the long-faded glories they cover!
Page 194 - Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair.
Page 48 - A part how small of the terraqueous globe Is tenanted by man? the rest a waste; Rocks, deserts, frozen seas, and burning sands! Wild haunts of monsters, poisons, stings, and death Such is earth's melancholy map! but, far 'More sad! this earth is a true map of man: So bounded are its haughty lord's delights To woe's wide empire, where deep troubles toss.
Page 98 - But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned, Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh : but I spare you.