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Betwixt Edinburgh and the mountain called Arthur's Seat , ' and near to it are still to be discerned the remains of an old cairn , and the yet stately ruins of St. Anthony's chapel . The engraving accompanying this number , exhibits ...
Betwixt Edinburgh and the mountain called Arthur's Seat , ' and near to it are still to be discerned the remains of an old cairn , and the yet stately ruins of St. Anthony's chapel . The engraving accompanying this number , exhibits ...
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laws of her country for child - murder , and herself called on as the principal witness against her . The counsel for the prisoner told Helen , that if she could declare that her sister had made any preparation , however slight , or had ...
laws of her country for child - murder , and herself called on as the principal witness against her . The counsel for the prisoner told Helen , that if she could declare that her sister had made any preparation , however slight , or had ...
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... yield but indifferent ship timber ; being very soft , and almost herbaceous in its texture ; but the fibrous coating of the nut makes excellent cordage , called coir , and is extensively used here in the manufacture of cables .
... yield but indifferent ship timber ; being very soft , and almost herbaceous in its texture ; but the fibrous coating of the nut makes excellent cordage , called coir , and is extensively used here in the manufacture of cables .
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Each one spread a small carpet on the floor , behind his master , on which he placed the hookah , ready charged with aromatic ingredients ; and having ignited these , presented him with the end of the long flexible tube , called the ...
Each one spread a small carpet on the floor , behind his master , on which he placed the hookah , ready charged with aromatic ingredients ; and having ignited these , presented him with the end of the long flexible tube , called the ...
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Some of the casts dispose of their dead by burning the bodies : but a very numerous one , called the pyar , or paria cast , throw all their dead into the Hooghly , where they continue to float with the tide until they are finally ...
Some of the casts dispose of their dead by burning the bodies : but a very numerous one , called the pyar , or paria cast , throw all their dead into the Hooghly , where they continue to float with the tide until they are finally ...
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Page 117 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Page 203 - That we do hereby declare ourselves a free and independent people, are and of right ought to be a sovereign and selfgoverning association under the control of no power other than that of our God and the General Government of the Congress to the maintenance of which independence we solemnly pledge to each other our mutual co-operation our lives our fortunes and our most sacred honor.
Page 343 - All that he had ever heard - all that he had ever read - when compared with it dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun.
Page 160 - The roar of the sea had long announced their approach to the cliffs, on the summit of which, like the nest of some seaeagle, the founder of the fortalice had perched his eyry. The pale moon, which had hitherto been contending with flitting clouds, now shone out, and gave them a view of the solitary and naked tower, situated on a projecting cliff that beetled on the German Ocean. On three sides the rock was precipitous ; on the fourth, which was that...
Page 447 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Page 241 - Oh Venice! Venice! when thy marble walls Are level with the waters, there shall be A cry of nations o'er thy sunken halls, A loud lament along the sweeping sea!
Page 303 - Prologue will show, was composed under a belief that the Imagination not only does not require for its exercise the intervention of supernatural agency, but that, though such agency be excluded, the faculty may be called forth as imperiously, and for kindred results of pleasure, by incidents, within the compass of poetic probability, in the humblest departments of daily life.
Page 307 - Is it a party in a parlour, Crammed just as they on earth were crammed, Some sipping punch — some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent, and all damned ! Peter Bell, by W.
Page 478 - I thank God, there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best of government. God keep us from both...
Page 180 - At this moment I also saw a continuity of ice at the distance of seven miles, extending from one- side of the bay to the other, between the nearest cape to the north, which I named after Sir George Warrender, and that to the south, which was named after Viscount Castlereagh.
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| Title | The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography, Analytical Abstracts of New Publications, Volume 14 Volumes 61-62 of American periodical series, 1800-1850 |
| Publisher | Published and sold by Moses Thomas, 1819 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 27 Nov 2007 |
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