The Quarterly Review, Band 14William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1816 |
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... carried on a commerce with the Candians , of their cattle and areca nuts ; an explanation was asked ; but the first adigar refused to give any , and rejected every conciliatory proposition for the accommodation of subsisting differences ...
... carried on a commerce with the Candians , of their cattle and areca nuts ; an explanation was asked ; but the first adigar refused to give any , and rejected every conciliatory proposition for the accommodation of subsisting differences ...
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... carried on until the ensuing dry season ; and sickness had spread among the troops to a most alarming degree . On the arrival of the second adigar , in Candy , carrying a firelock and match wrapped up in white muslin , as an emblem of ...
... carried on until the ensuing dry season ; and sickness had spread among the troops to a most alarming degree . On the arrival of the second adigar , in Candy , carrying a firelock and match wrapped up in white muslin , as an emblem of ...
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... carried to Candy after the massacre was completed . Previous to this massacre , all the sick in Candy , to the number of one hundred and twenty men , of the 19th regiment of foot , had been mur- dered in cold blood , as they lay ...
... carried to Candy after the massacre was completed . Previous to this massacre , all the sick in Candy , to the number of one hundred and twenty men , of the 19th regiment of foot , had been mur- dered in cold blood , as they lay ...
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... carried to the capital , where , without the imputation of crime , or the form of trial , they were all mutilated in the most barbarous manner ; seven died on the spot , and the remaining three were sent to Columbo , by way of defiance ...
... carried to the capital , where , without the imputation of crime , or the form of trial , they were all mutilated in the most barbarous manner ; seven died on the spot , and the remaining three were sent to Columbo , by way of defiance ...
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... and round away a mast ; of the leaves they weave the sails , and the bark they convert into cordage ; having thus completed their vessel , they load her with 6 cocoa cocoa nuts , which they carry back to sell at 1815 . 25 Ceylon .
... and round away a mast ; of the leaves they weave the sails , and the bark they convert into cordage ; having thus completed their vessel , they load her with 6 cocoa cocoa nuts , which they carry back to sell at 1815 . 25 Ceylon .
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Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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....