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Vanlige uttrykk og setningeradmirable Albanians ancient arms army artillery Asia assault attack battalions besiegers blockade campaign Capitan Pasha capitulation cavalry chap chief Chourchid Christian command commenced conquest Constantinople contest danger Danube Dardanelles defeated defence dominions effect empire enemy entire Europe excited favour fire fireships fleet force formidable fortress France French frigates garrison Greece Greeks Guard guns hands harbour head Hist horse hospodars hundred Hydra Ibrahim immense important inhabitants insurgents insurrection Ipsara island janizaries King land length ment military Ministers Missolonghi Moldavia Morea mountains Mussulmans Napoli nation Navarino never ordonnances Osmanlis Ottoman Ottoman empire Paris party Pasha Paskewitch passed Porte Prince principles provinces rendered Revolution Romania ruin Russian sail Salonica Schumla ships side siege Silistria soon Souliotes St Petersburg strength Sublime Porte success Sultan thousand throne tion took town treaty Tripolitza troops Turkey Turkish Turks utmost vessels victory vigour Wallachia whole Populære avsnittSide 56 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below. Side 81 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The... Side 139 - And should we thither roam, Its echoes, and its empty tread, Would sound like voices from the dead ! Or shall we cross yon mountains blue, Whose streams my kindred nation quaff'd! Side 61 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those hills that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms... Side 704 - That the maxim of buying in the cheapest market, and selling in the dearest, which regulates every merchant in his individual dealings, is strictly applicable, as the best rule for the trade of the whole nation. Side 706 - But it is against every restrictive regulation of trade not essential to the revenue— against all duties merely protective from foreign competition — and against the excess of such duties as are partly for the purpose of revenue, and partly for that of protection — that the prayer of the present petition is respectfully submitted to the wisdom of parliament. Side 687 - The act of navigation is not favourable to foreign commerce, or to the growth of that opulence which can arise from it. Side 704 - ... every other country, each trying to exclude the productions of other countries, with the specious and well-meant design of encouraging its own productions ; thus inflicting on the bulk of its subjects, who are consumers, the necessity of submitting to privations in the quantity or quality of commodities; and thus rendering what ought to be the source of mutual benefit and of harmony among states, a constantly-recurring occasion of jealousy and hostility. Side 88 - As soon as this notice was given, every family marched solemnly out of its dwelling, without tears or lamentation ; and the men, preceded by their priests and followed by their sons, proceeded to the sepulchres of their fathers, and silently unearthed and collected their remains, — which they placed upon a huge pile of wood which they had previously erected before one of their churches. Side 61 - Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansions tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread. No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier and his sword... Bibliografisk informasjon
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