The London Quarterly Review, Volume 11Theodore Foster, 1814 |
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... directed the researches of the lear- ned . They bid us ascend to a period of the remotest , even of unknown antiquity , when the Celtic nation , ( whose language , if not primitive in an absolute sense , is so at least relatively to ...
... directed the researches of the lear- ned . They bid us ascend to a period of the remotest , even of unknown antiquity , when the Celtic nation , ( whose language , if not primitive in an absolute sense , is so at least relatively to ...
Pagina 43
... directed to the Huygenian theory by an earlier paper published in the same volume of the Philosophical Transactions with his own , in which it is asserted , almost in the terms that Mr. Malus has employed , that Newton , without ...
... directed to the Huygenian theory by an earlier paper published in the same volume of the Philosophical Transactions with his own , in which it is asserted , almost in the terms that Mr. Malus has employed , that Newton , without ...
Pagina 54
... directed to a star towards which the earth is moving , ( p . 221 ) : it was not from the different distances of the stars , but from the difference of the relative velocities of light , that they argued , ac- cording to the general ...
... directed to a star towards which the earth is moving , ( p . 221 ) : it was not from the different distances of the stars , but from the difference of the relative velocities of light , that they argued , ac- cording to the general ...
Pagina 105
... directed , and it is noticed by two of the travellers whose works we have under review . If the sink- ing of the water in this quarter has continued in regular propor- tion from the earliest times , at the period when Pliny wrote , the ...
... directed , and it is noticed by two of the travellers whose works we have under review . If the sink- ing of the water in this quarter has continued in regular propor- tion from the earliest times , at the period when Pliny wrote , the ...
Pagina 119
... directed to the meadow on the other side of the river . ' The boors suddenly made their appearance on the rocks in every direction ; they closed up every avenue of advance ; they prevented Sinclair fell in the foremost ranks , and the ...
... directed to the meadow on the other side of the river . ' The boors suddenly made their appearance on the rocks in every direction ; they closed up every avenue of advance ; they prevented Sinclair fell in the foremost ranks , and the ...
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Pagina 429 - How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Pagina 314 - For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, poetic fields encompass me around, and still I seem to tread on classic ground...
Pagina 192 - he did not beg a long life of God for any other reason, " but to live to finish his three remaining books of Polity ; " and then, Lord, let thy servant depart in peace;" which was his usual expression.
Pagina 493 - A man — the monarch of his mind. Now taste and try this temper, Sirs, Mood it, and brood it in your breast ; Or if ye ween, for worldly stirs That man does right to mar his rest, Let me be *deft and debonair, I am content, I do not care.
Pagina 136 - He called forth the latent virtues of the human heart, and taught men to discover in themselves a mine of charity, of which the proprietors had been unconscious. In feeding the lamp of charity, he has almost exhausted the lamp of life.
Pagina 497 - Tell them, I AM, JEHOVAH said To MOSES; while earth heard in dread, And, smitten to the heart, At once above, beneath, around, All Nature, without voice or sound, Replied, "O LORD, THOU ART.
Pagina 222 - The Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the state of the...
Pagina 371 - Awake on your hills, on your islands awake, Brave sons of the mountain, the frith, and the lake ! 'Tis the bugle — but not for the chase is the call ; 'Tis the pibroch's shrill summons — but not to the hall. 'Tis the summons of heroes for conquest or death. When the banners are blazing on mountain and heath ; They call to the dirk, the claymore, and the targe, To the march and the muster, the line and the charge.
Pagina 314 - Now my weary lips I close: Leave me, leave me to repose.
Pagina 513 - THE BORDER ANTIQUITIES OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND, comprising Specimens of Architecture and Sculpture, and other Vestiges of Former Ages, accompanied by Descriptions. Together with Illustrations of remarkable Incidents in Border History and Tradition, and Original Poetry.