Blackwood's Magazine, Volumen34W. Blackwood, 1833 |
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... Island has mainly owed her greatness to her Navy ; nor in all the revolutions among kingdoms and em- pires , that may be destined to take place in time , can we imagine a con- dition of the world in which her greatness will not still ...
... Island has mainly owed her greatness to her Navy ; nor in all the revolutions among kingdoms and em- pires , that may be destined to take place in time , can we imagine a con- dition of the world in which her greatness will not still ...
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... Island has mainly owed her greatness to her Navy ; nor in all the revolutions among kingdoms and em- pires , that may be destined to take place in time , can we imagine a con- dition of the world in which her greatness will not still ...
... Island has mainly owed her greatness to her Navy ; nor in all the revolutions among kingdoms and em- pires , that may be destined to take place in time , can we imagine a con- dition of the world in which her greatness will not still ...
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... Island of Teneriffe , with two French 44 gun frigates , La Vertu and La Regenerée . The following is his modest ac- count of that skilful and daring ac- tion : - " Late in the day of the 26th of July , after having chased a sail which ...
... Island of Teneriffe , with two French 44 gun frigates , La Vertu and La Regenerée . The following is his modest ac- count of that skilful and daring ac- tion : - " Late in the day of the 26th of July , after having chased a sail which ...
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... Islands . He now began to feel the nature of popularity . His constituents at Bristol were tired of being represent- ed by the ablest man in Europe . They made their determination to get rid of him , and it was put in force without ...
... Islands . He now began to feel the nature of popularity . His constituents at Bristol were tired of being represent- ed by the ablest man in Europe . They made their determination to get rid of him , and it was put in force without ...
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... island to Jacmel , in order to com- municate with the merchant - ships loading there ; and by the time I returned , it was supposed the Fire- brand would be ready for sea , when I was to be detached in the Wave , to whip in the craft at ...
... island to Jacmel , in order to com- municate with the merchant - ships loading there ; and by the time I returned , it was supposed the Fire- brand would be ready for sea , when I was to be detached in the Wave , to whip in the craft at ...
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Página 31 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Página 295 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round, it measures Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The laboring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.
Página 296 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
Página 304 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Página 304 - He resolved, in . the gloomy recesses of a mind 'capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those, against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Página 42 - England has erected no churches, no hospitals,* no palaces, no schools; England has built no bridges, made no high roads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain, to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any thing better than the ourang-outang or the tiger.
Página 67 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean— roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Página 305 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those...
Página 92 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth : Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them : for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me, and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love Me and keep My Commandments.
Página 30 - ... than the opinions of many would go along with me. — In every accident which may happen through life, in pain, in sorrow, in depression, and distress — I will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted.