The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Том 3Wiley and Halsted, 1821 |
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... believe its average product is not less than 60 barrels . The fisherman is enabled by means of this necessity in the whale to obtain a cer- tain description of food , to judge in what part of the sea his game is to be found . 6 The only ...
... believe its average product is not less than 60 barrels . The fisherman is enabled by means of this necessity in the whale to obtain a cer- tain description of food , to judge in what part of the sea his game is to be found . 6 The only ...
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... believe . We regret that our limits compel us to hasten to the close of our extracts . ' On the 28th of May 1817 , the Royal Bounty of Leith , Captain Drysdale , fell in with a great number of whales in the latitude of 77 ° 25 ' N. and ...
... believe . We regret that our limits compel us to hasten to the close of our extracts . ' On the 28th of May 1817 , the Royal Bounty of Leith , Captain Drysdale , fell in with a great number of whales in the latitude of 77 ° 25 ' N. and ...
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... believe ) of latitude . We are compelled to regret the loss of such accidental advantages the more , when we remember the treasure and time that have been expended in vain , for the want of such casual opportunities . We doubt whether ...
... believe ) of latitude . We are compelled to regret the loss of such accidental advantages the more , when we remember the treasure and time that have been expended in vain , for the want of such casual opportunities . We doubt whether ...
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... believe " a whale is a fish , ” and we would not have presumed thus openly to disobey a late decision of the learned against the use of the word , but that we have been obliged to adopt the " parlance " of seamen , and can only speak of ...
... believe " a whale is a fish , ” and we would not have presumed thus openly to disobey a late decision of the learned against the use of the word , but that we have been obliged to adopt the " parlance " of seamen , and can only speak of ...
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... believe that men , whose ears have receiv- ed energetic , healthy , and manly reasoning , from Grattan , Cur- ran , Plunket , and Bushe , would suffer their intellects to be abused or influenced by the mountebank practices here com ...
... believe that men , whose ears have receiv- ed energetic , healthy , and manly reasoning , from Grattan , Cur- ran , Plunket , and Bushe , would suffer their intellects to be abused or influenced by the mountebank practices here com ...
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Сторінка 98 - tis haunted, holy ground ; No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould, But one vast realm of wonder spreads around, And all the Muse's tales seem truly told, Till the sense aches with gazing to behold The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt upon...
Сторінка 483 - That light we see is burning in my hall ; how far that little candle throws its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world...
Сторінка 98 - And yet how lovely in thine age of woe, Land of lost gods and godlike men, art thou ! Thy vales of evergreen, thy hills of snow, Proclaim thee Nature's varied favourite now ; Thy fanes, thy temples to thy surface bow, Commingling slowly with heroic earth, Broke by the share of every rustic plough : So perish monuments of mortal birth, So perish all in turn, save well-recorded Worth ; LXXXVI.
Сторінка 28 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
Сторінка 59 - And therefore, except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice, until thou find that time hath decayed thy natural heat, and the sooner thou beginnest to help nature, the sooner she will forsake thee, and trust altogether to art...
Сторінка 414 - English compositions (at least for the last three years of our school education) he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor or image unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words. Lute, harp and lyre, muse, muses and inspirations, Pegasus, Parnassus and Hippocrene were all an abomination to him.
Сторінка 57 - My heart was never broken till this day, that I hear the queen goes away so far off, whom I have followed so many years with so great love and desire in so many journeys, and am now left behind her in a dark prison all alone. While she was yet...
Сторінка 191 - For a very small expense the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.
Сторінка 94 - The truth is, that in these days the grand "primum mobile" of England is cant; cant political, cant poetical, cant religious, cant moral; but always cant, multiplied through all the varieties of life.
Сторінка 50 - I know not Which is best, to see you dead, or part with you. — Farewell, boy: Thou art happy that thou hast not understanding To know thy misery; for all our wit And reading brings us to a truer sense Of sorrow.