The Quarterly Review, Volum 14William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1816 |
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... means , to seduce the Malay soldiers from their allegiance . Their chief native officer , Captain Nouradeen , received a letter from his brother , a Malay prince in the Candian service , soliciting him to induce his countrymen to revolt ...
... means , to seduce the Malay soldiers from their allegiance . Their chief native officer , Captain Nouradeen , received a letter from his brother , a Malay prince in the Candian service , soliciting him to induce his countrymen to revolt ...
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... means to make his escape , and was the first to communicate the horrible story at Fort Mac- dowall . A trait of heroic devotion and fidelity was displayed on this melancholy occasion which well deserves to be mentioned . Cap- tain ...
... means to make his escape , and was the first to communicate the horrible story at Fort Mac- dowall . A trait of heroic devotion and fidelity was displayed on this melancholy occasion which well deserves to be mentioned . Cap- tain ...
Side 11
... means the blood of the lion . According to tradition , Vijeja Rajah , the son of Sinbaha , the lion - begotten , first peopled the island from the peninsula of Hindostan with seven hundred giants : and having slain his lion - father ...
... means the blood of the lion . According to tradition , Vijeja Rajah , the son of Sinbaha , the lion - begotten , first peopled the island from the peninsula of Hindostan with seven hundred giants : and having slain his lion - father ...
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... means of iron chains fixed into the rock for that purpose . By great exertions they also succeeded in reach- ing the summit , though the head priest had exhausted all his elo- quence to dissuade them from the attempt , assuring the ...
... means of iron chains fixed into the rock for that purpose . By great exertions they also succeeded in reach- ing the summit , though the head priest had exhausted all his elo- quence to dissuade them from the attempt , assuring the ...
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... means convinced that the Singhalese are naturally of an indolent disposition . It is true Knox has said , and his account has been copied by later writers , that they are naturally a people given to sloth and lazi- ness ; that they ...
... means convinced that the Singhalese are naturally of an indolent disposition . It is true Knox has said , and his account has been copied by later writers , that they are naturally a people given to sloth and lazi- ness ; that they ...
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Side 201 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
Side 210 - When soft! — the dusky trees between, And down the path through the open green, Where is no living thing to be seen ; And through yon gateway, where is found, Beneath the arch with ivy bound, Free entrance to the church-yard ground...
Side 208 - Further, it is the language of men who speak of what they do not understand; who talk of Poetry as of a matter of amusement and idle pleasure; who will converse with us as gravely about a taste for Poetry, as they express it, as if it were a thing as indifferent as a taste for rope-dancing, or Frontiniac or Sherry.
Side 433 - Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it ; Thou shall love thy neighbour, as thyself.
Side 288 - We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master.
Side 208 - Poet, and too feeble to grapple with him; men who take upon them to report of the course which he holds whom they are utterly unable to accompany, — confounded if he turn quick upon the wing, dismayed if he soar steadily into
Side 394 - Lataniers, conversed together for the last time ; and where the old man, at the sight of the Southern Cross, warns them that it is time to separate !"— DE HUMBOLDT'S Travels.
Side 478 - And thou were the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrad horse. And thou were the truest lover of a sinful man that ever loved woman. And thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword.
Side 231 - Yet if perchance remember'd, still disdain you 'em More than you scorn the savages of yore, Who painted their bare limbs, but not with gore. is a most extraordinary character. He dines every morning about nine. He sleeps almost naked ; he affects a perfect indifference to heat and cold ; and quits his chamber, which approaches to suffocation, in order to review his troops, in a thin linen jacket, while the thermometer of Reaumur is at ten degrees below freezing. His manners correspond with his humours....