American Quarterly Review, Volume 4Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1828 |
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... French expedition to Egypt have been embodied in a splendid national work , in which are to be found the most correct copies of the larger and less moveable monuments ; while the researches of Salt and Drovetti have ac- cumulated ...
... French expedition to Egypt have been embodied in a splendid national work , in which are to be found the most correct copies of the larger and less moveable monuments ; while the researches of Salt and Drovetti have ac- cumulated ...
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... French collection has been recently opened under the su- perintendence of Champollion the younger , in splendid apart- ments , fitted up for the express purpose ; and the present King of France seeks to immortalize his name by ...
... French collection has been recently opened under the su- perintendence of Champollion the younger , in splendid apart- ments , fitted up for the express purpose ; and the present King of France seeks to immortalize his name by ...
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... French republic . But the vast schemes to which the occupation of this country was calculated to give rise , were crushed in embryo by the power of England ; a triumph , which in this , as in various other cases , however vaunted at ...
... French republic . But the vast schemes to which the occupation of this country was calculated to give rise , were crushed in embryo by the power of England ; a triumph , which in this , as in various other cases , however vaunted at ...
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... French , or of the political objects and military views it was intended directly to subserve , we must ad- mit that the most extensive and liberal plans were entertained , and actually commenced , by which the happiness and prosperity ...
... French , or of the political objects and military views it was intended directly to subserve , we must ad- mit that the most extensive and liberal plans were entertained , and actually commenced , by which the happiness and prosperity ...
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... French army , to be by no means insalubrious . The results of this famous expedition of the French , are to be found only in the vast increase which our knowledge of the an- cient and modern condition of that country has received . For ...
... French army , to be by no means insalubrious . The results of this famous expedition of the French , are to be found only in the vast increase which our knowledge of the an- cient and modern condition of that country has received . For ...
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Page 282 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning! Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid! Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 282 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid ; star of the east, the horizon adorning, guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 147 - In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell; Earthly these passions of the earth, They perish where they have their birth -, But love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth; from heaven it came, to heaven...
Page 397 - Marshal of the district into which they are brought ; and to appoint a proper person or persons, residing upon the coast of Africa, as agent or agents for receiving the negroes, mulattoes, or persons of colour, delivered from on board vessels seized in the prosecution of the Slave Trade by commanders of The United States
Page 284 - Thou art gone to the grave ; but we will not deplore thee; Whose God was thy ransom, thy guardian, and guide : He gave thee, he took thee, and he will restore thee ; And death has no sting, for the Saviour hasoied.
Page 396 - The object, to which its attention is to be exclusively directed, is to promote and execute a plan for colonizing (with their consent) the free people of color residing in our country in Africa, or such other place as Congress shall deem most expedient.
Page 196 - Shakspearc and Milton, like gods in the fight, Have put their whole drama and epic to flight ; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope. Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, \ and will beat forty more...
Page 274 - Committee, that it is the duty of this country to promote the interest and happiness of the native inhabitants of the British dominions in India, and thai such measures ought to be adopted, as may tend to the introduction among them of useful knowledge, and of religious and moral improvement.
Page 282 - Cold on his cradle the dew-drops are shining, Low lies his head with the beasts of the stall ; Angels adore him in slumber reclining, Maker and Monarch and Saviour of all.