The Analectic Magazine, Volume 2Published and sold by Moses Thomas, 1813 |
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... scarcely one professed to perceive in his acknowledged writings the indications of any such measure of talent as that habitually displayed by Junius ; yet this identity has been so confidently maintained by at least three writers , that ...
... scarcely one professed to perceive in his acknowledged writings the indications of any such measure of talent as that habitually displayed by Junius ; yet this identity has been so confidently maintained by at least three writers , that ...
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... scarcely felt at the moment , and drawing no ill consequences after it , will pro- duce gangrene or cancer in a system that is morbidly predisposed ; and certain it is , that in these our days , a morbid change has been wrought in the ...
... scarcely felt at the moment , and drawing no ill consequences after it , will pro- duce gangrene or cancer in a system that is morbidly predisposed ; and certain it is , that in these our days , a morbid change has been wrought in the ...
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... scarcely to have sustained any interruption by the civil wars of Charles I. because the virtues of the feudal system survived that system awhile , and because the manners of the peasantry were not yet corrupted . Harrison states the ...
... scarcely to have sustained any interruption by the civil wars of Charles I. because the virtues of the feudal system survived that system awhile , and because the manners of the peasantry were not yet corrupted . Harrison states the ...
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... scarcely more system- atically remorseless . The London workhouses supplied children by wagon - loads to those manufactories which would take them off the hands of the parish ; a new sort of trade was invented , a set of child - jobbers ...
... scarcely more system- atically remorseless . The London workhouses supplied children by wagon - loads to those manufactories which would take them off the hands of the parish ; a new sort of trade was invented , a set of child - jobbers ...
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... scarcely above the brutes ; and if he be depraved , as well as ignorant , he is then chiefly distinguished from them by the fatal prerogative of possessing a wicked will and greater powers of mischief . When his diviner part has never ...
... scarcely above the brutes ; and if he be depraved , as well as ignorant , he is then chiefly distinguished from them by the fatal prerogative of possessing a wicked will and greater powers of mischief . When his diviner part has never ...
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Page 373 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Page 373 - Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb ; Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay...
Page 453 - Hardy ; and as that officer, though often sent for, could not leave the deck, Nelson feared that some fatal cause prevented him, and repeatedly cried : " Will no one bring Hardy to me ? He must be killed ! He is surely dead...
Page 482 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Page 12 - Many murders have been discovered among them ; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who, if they give not bread or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them), but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty...
Page 453 - you can do nothing for me." All that could be done was to fan him with paper, and frequently to give him lemonade to alleviate his intense thirst. He was in great pain, and expressed much anxiety for the event of the action, which now began to declare itself. As often as a ship struck, the crew of the Victory...
Page 453 - Hardy, who was a few steps from him, turning round, saw three men raising him up. " They have done for me at last, Hardy," said he. " I hope not," cried Hardy. " Yes ! " he replied ; " my back-bone is shot through.
Page 454 - Take care of my dear Lady Hamilton, Hardy ; take care of poor Lady Hamilton. — Kiss me, Hardy," said he. Hardy knelt down and kissed his cheek ; and Nelson said, " Now I am satisfied. Thank God, I have done my duty.
Page 454 - And then in a stronger voice he said, "Anchor, Hardy, anchor." Hardy upon this hinted that Admiral Collingwood would take upon himself the direction of affairs. " Not while I live, Hardy," said the dying Nelson, ineffectually endeavouring to raise himself from the bed ;
Page 8 - A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business to be where he is. At nature's mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him. She tells him to be gone, and will quickly execute her own orders, if he do not work upon the compassion of some of her guests.