The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen116A. Constable, 1862 |
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... lines , and now breaking through to rich territories which lie beyond . Now we shall abandon the search as worth- less , and anon we shall be led through waving pastures and by the banks of deep and clear waters . We shall turn aside ...
... lines , and now breaking through to rich territories which lie beyond . Now we shall abandon the search as worth- less , and anon we shall be led through waving pastures and by the banks of deep and clear waters . We shall turn aside ...
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... line of the whole continent was most uncertain . Since the days of Captain Cook , scarcely a white foot had crossed it ; and the Dutch previously had contented them- selves by naming a few of its most conspicuous headlands . Owing to ...
... line of the whole continent was most uncertain . Since the days of Captain Cook , scarcely a white foot had crossed it ; and the Dutch previously had contented them- selves by naming a few of its most conspicuous headlands . Owing to ...
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... line anything but inviting ; but might it not be worth while to ascertain , by practical experi- ment , the possibility of driving sheep overland thither ? Would not such an experiment most certainly lead to the discovery of good ...
... line anything but inviting ; but might it not be worth while to ascertain , by practical experi- ment , the possibility of driving sheep overland thither ? Would not such an experiment most certainly lead to the discovery of good ...
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... line of march , and six months ' im- prisonment in the Rocky Glen Depôt became certain . - For six months no rain fell . The violence of the sun became insupportable . To escape from its rays , a large under- ground chamber was ...
... line of march , and six months ' im- prisonment in the Rocky Glen Depôt became certain . - For six months no rain fell . The violence of the sun became insupportable . To escape from its rays , a large under- ground chamber was ...
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... line from Rockingham Bay to the head of the gulf . A land communication along this imaginary line would save a considerable distance of sea voyage , and would wholly escape Torres Strait . The Indian and Chinese traders , and the Dutch ...
... line from Rockingham Bay to the head of the gulf . A land communication along this imaginary line would save a considerable distance of sea voyage , and would wholly escape Torres Strait . The Indian and Chinese traders , and the Dutch ...
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Página 389 - Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written; Which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Página 552 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Página 393 - Flow thro' our deeds and make them pure, That we may lift from out of dust A voice as unto him that hears, A cry above the...
Página 552 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was.
Página 127 - Their first step was to circulate among the Members of the House of Commons a paper entitled ' The Case of the Protestant Dissenters with reference to the Corporation and Test Acts,' in which they more especially laboured to distinguish their case from that of the Roman Catholics.
Página 562 - And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State ; and the Union shall be perpetual. Nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to, in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Página 552 - I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the Colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Página 134 - At length, I well remember, after a conversation in the open air, at the root of an old tree at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the vale of Keston, I resolved to give notice, on a fit occasion, in the House of Commons, of my intention to bring the subject forward.