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In 1772 , and the succeeding years , till 1776 , Dr. Cooper took the side of the British government , and distinguished himself as a writer in the political controversies of the day , against Smith , Livingston , and the other literary ...
In 1772 , and the succeeding years , till 1776 , Dr. Cooper took the side of the British government , and distinguished himself as a writer in the political controversies of the day , against Smith , Livingston , and the other literary ...
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The writer enters into the praises of his favourite with that warmth and cordiality which indicate the strong sympathies of a congenial and kindred mind . The next piece is a tale , ' the Wife ; ' it is peculiarly appropriate to the ...
The writer enters into the praises of his favourite with that warmth and cordiality which indicate the strong sympathies of a congenial and kindred mind . The next piece is a tale , ' the Wife ; ' it is peculiarly appropriate to the ...
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Finally , a writer in the North American Review , for June 1819 , ( who , however , could not have seen Mr. Moore's tract ) , after discussing the subject at some length , and certainly with much learning and candour , assumes a middle ...
Finally , a writer in the North American Review , for June 1819 , ( who , however , could not have seen Mr. Moore's tract ) , after discussing the subject at some length , and certainly with much learning and candour , assumes a middle ...
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It has been asserted by several writers that in advancing west from the Alleghany mountains , a difference of at least three degrees of temperature is discoverable greater than is found on the same parallel of latitude eastwardly .
It has been asserted by several writers that in advancing west from the Alleghany mountains , a difference of at least three degrees of temperature is discoverable greater than is found on the same parallel of latitude eastwardly .
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It was a production of the highest promise ; and few writers in our language , at so early an age ( we believe it was written before Mr. Campbell was twentythree ) , have commenced so brilliantly ; but we are far from speaking of it as ...
It was a production of the highest promise ; and few writers in our language , at so early an age ( we believe it was written before Mr. Campbell was twentythree ) , have commenced so brilliantly ; but we are far from speaking of it as ...
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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.