The Quarterly Review, Volum 39William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1829 |
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Side 16
... Persians have , of late years , endeavoured to introduce the European tactics into their armies ; yet , with so little success , that the Russian troops opposed to them have found little difference in their mode of fighting . Some ...
... Persians have , of late years , endeavoured to introduce the European tactics into their armies ; yet , with so little success , that the Russian troops opposed to them have found little difference in their mode of fighting . Some ...
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... Persia it required two campaigns , with the best soldiers that Russia could bring forward , to subdue the undisciplined troops of Abbas Mirza , and a whole campaign has been wasted before the entrenched camps of Varna , Chumla , and ...
... Persia it required two campaigns , with the best soldiers that Russia could bring forward , to subdue the undisciplined troops of Abbas Mirza , and a whole campaign has been wasted before the entrenched camps of Varna , Chumla , and ...
Side 35
... Persian writers designate as one of the three terrestrial paradises . ' Sir William Ouseley , the only authority of Colonel Evans , in the same flowery style of the Persians , ( from which we believe he translates , ) says , If a person ...
... Persian writers designate as one of the three terrestrial paradises . ' Sir William Ouseley , the only authority of Colonel Evans , in the same flowery style of the Persians , ( from which we believe he translates , ) says , If a person ...
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... Persian slaves , who had been captured at Astrabad , and abandoned on the march . It is of no importance , ' said the Turcomans who es- corted the Captain , ' we always leave a full half of these Kizilbash ( red - heads ) on the road ...
... Persian slaves , who had been captured at Astrabad , and abandoned on the march . It is of no importance , ' said the Turcomans who es- corted the Captain , ' we always leave a full half of these Kizilbash ( red - heads ) on the road ...
Side 40
... Persian gulph , and so on to Bombay , and we suppose to other parts of India and China . We have but two little objections to offer to this plan . The first is , that an army must accompany this Muscovite mosquito fleet the whole length ...
... Persian gulph , and so on to Bombay , and we suppose to other parts of India and China . We have but two little objections to offer to this plan . The first is , that an army must accompany this Muscovite mosquito fleet the whole length ...
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Side 431 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Side 6 - O FRIEND ! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, opprest, To think that now our life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more...
Side 112 - First, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.
Side 286 - In perusing a corrupted piece, he must have before him all possibilities of meaning, with all possibilities of expression. Such must be his comprehension of thought, and such his copiousness of language. Out of many readings possible, he must be able to select that which best suits with the state, opinions, and modes of language prevailing in every age, and with his authour's particular cast of thought, and turn of expression. Such must be his knowledge, and such his taste.
Side 192 - He had not been long in confinement when he applied to the Court of King's Bench for a writ of habeas corpus...
Side 218 - It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Side 477 - They have invented a new language, which they call Greek : you must be carefully on your guard against it ; it is the mother of all heresy. I observe in the hands of many persons a book written in that language, and which they call the New Testament : it is a book full of daggers and poison. As to the Hebrew, my brethren, it is certain that whoever learns it becomes immediately a Jew.
Side 347 - Took up the lady's voice, and laughed again ; That ancient woman seated on Helm-crag Was ready with her cavern ; Hammar-scar, And the tall steep of Silver-how, sent forth A noise of laughter ; southern Loughrigg heard, And Fairfield answered with a mountain tone ; Helvellyn far into the clear blue sky Carried the lady's voice ; old Skiddaw blew His speaking-trumpet ; back out of the clouds Of Glaramara southward came the voice ; And Kirkstone tossed it from his misty head.
Side 522 - Synopsis of the British Flora arranged according to the Natural Orders; containing Vasculares or Flowering Plants.
Side 357 - ... part of our own force, offered to assist them in getting over, which was no sooner accomplished than the 85th found itself in the midst of very superior numbers, who, discovering themselves, called on the regiment immediately to surrender — the answer was an instantaneous attack ; a more extraordinary conflict has perhaps never occurred, absolutely hand to hand both officers and men.