The Quarterly Review, Volume 14William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1816 |
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... language : his name , he said , was Thoen ; he had been a private in the Bengal artillery ; had accompanied the expedition to Candy in 1803 , and had survived the massacre of Major Davie's corps , having been one of the sick in the ...
... language : his name , he said , was Thoen ; he had been a private in the Bengal artillery ; had accompanied the expedition to Candy in 1803 , and had survived the massacre of Major Davie's corps , having been one of the sick in the ...
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... language is a dialect of the Singhalese , and the faint notions which they have of religion approach nearer to Brahmanism than to Boudhism . Their only places of worship are under the shade of the Banyan tree . The chieftain of each ...
... language is a dialect of the Singhalese , and the faint notions which they have of religion approach nearer to Brahmanism than to Boudhism . Their only places of worship are under the shade of the Banyan tree . The chieftain of each ...
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... language the most soft of any in all Asia . More attached to their stupid laws of pretended honour than to those of justice and humanity , one sees constantly among them the strong attacking the weak . Their treaties of peace and of ...
... language the most soft of any in all Asia . More attached to their stupid laws of pretended honour than to those of justice and humanity , one sees constantly among them the strong attacking the weak . Their treaties of peace and of ...
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... language , their religion , and their numerous religious establishments , still , however , exist ; but the Portugueze themselves have disappeared . The sun of Portugal may , in fact , be considered to have set in the east , and all ...
... language , their religion , and their numerous religious establishments , still , however , exist ; but the Portugueze themselves have disappeared . The sun of Portugal may , in fact , be considered to have set in the east , and all ...
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... language in the courts of judica- ture , in all legal instruments and official documents , and in all the ... languages . In the several school - houses divine service was performed on Sun- days , and always well attended . To every ten ...
... language in the courts of judica- ture , in all legal instruments and official documents , and in all the ... languages . In the several school - houses divine service was performed on Sun- days , and always well attended . To every ten ...
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Page 201 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
Page 210 - When soft! — the dusky trees between, And down the path through the open green, Where is no living thing to be seen ; And through yon gateway, where is found, Beneath the arch with ivy bound, Free entrance to the church-yard ground...
Page 208 - Further, it is the language of men who speak of what they do not understand; who talk of Poetry as of a matter of amusement and idle pleasure; who will converse with us as gravely about a taste for Poetry, as they express it, as if it were a thing as indifferent as a taste for rope-dancing, or Frontiniac or Sherry.
Page 433 - Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it ; Thou shall love thy neighbour, as thyself.
Page 288 - We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master.
Page 208 - Poet, and too feeble to grapple with him; men who take upon them to report of the course which he holds whom they are utterly unable to accompany, — confounded if he turn quick upon the wing, dismayed if he soar steadily into
Page 394 - Lataniers, conversed together for the last time ; and where the old man, at the sight of the Southern Cross, warns them that it is time to separate !"— DE HUMBOLDT'S Travels.
Page 478 - And thou were the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrad horse. And thou were the truest lover of a sinful man that ever loved woman. And thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword.
Page 231 - Yet if perchance remember'd, still disdain you 'em More than you scorn the savages of yore, Who painted their bare limbs, but not with gore. is a most extraordinary character. He dines every morning about nine. He sleeps almost naked ; he affects a perfect indifference to heat and cold ; and quits his chamber, which approaches to suffocation, in order to review his troops, in a thin linen jacket, while the thermometer of Reaumur is at ten degrees below freezing. His manners correspond with his humours....