The Quarterly Review, Volum 29William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1823 |
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Pàgina 3
... increased , in 1819 , to about 12,000 . The intermediate country is described as eminently beautiful , consisting of hill and dale , the swells being not more than two or three hun- dred feet high , covered with an almost unbroken ...
... increased , in 1819 , to about 12,000 . The intermediate country is described as eminently beautiful , consisting of hill and dale , the swells being not more than two or three hun- dred feet high , covered with an almost unbroken ...
Pàgina 6
... increasing in width from 60 to 100 feet , the country on each side being a low prairie or savannah covered with wild rice , rushes , sword - grass , and other aquatic plants . A few yellow pines appear in the dry sandy elevations which ...
... increasing in width from 60 to 100 feet , the country on each side being a low prairie or savannah covered with wild rice , rushes , sword - grass , and other aquatic plants . A few yellow pines appear in the dry sandy elevations which ...
Pàgina 7
... increasing from 300 to 800 feet , from the numerous tributary streams falling in on the east and on the west ; in which space the impediments to navigation consist of thirty - five rapids , nineteen ripples , and the Big and Little ...
... increasing from 300 to 800 feet , from the numerous tributary streams falling in on the east and on the west ; in which space the impediments to navigation consist of thirty - five rapids , nineteen ripples , and the Big and Little ...
Pàgina 10
... increased by the Big Black river , the Arkansas , the Waspita , and the Red river from the westward . At Point Coupée , near the town of St. Francisville , the banks begin to descend , till at Baton Rouge and from thence to the sea ...
... increased by the Big Black river , the Arkansas , the Waspita , and the Red river from the westward . At Point Coupée , near the town of St. Francisville , the banks begin to descend , till at Baton Rouge and from thence to the sea ...
Pàgina 16
... increase in number and extent , in proceeding up the Missouri as far as the Platte , and in the same proportion the ... increasing to such a size that , seen from a distance , it is frequently mistaken for a bison . The whole plant is so ...
... increase in number and extent , in proceeding up the Missouri as far as the Platte , and in the same proportion the ... increasing to such a size that , seen from a distance , it is frequently mistaken for a bison . The whole plant is so ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 147 - And the flood was forty days Upon the earth ; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. 18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth ; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
Pàgina 191 - Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood. Wisdom doth live with children round her knees: Books, leisure, perfect freedom, and the talk I0 Man holds with week-day man in the hourly walk Of the mind's business...
Pàgina 261 - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud. By T. BOWDLEB, Esq. FRS New Edition, in Volumes for the Pocket ; with 36 Wood Engravings, from Designs by Smirke, Howard, and other Artists.
Pàgina 146 - And behold I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and every thing that is in the earth shall die, but with thee will I establish My Covenant, and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons
Pàgina 427 - ... part of any dead person, to be employed or used in any manner of witchcraft, sorcery, charm, or enchantment...
Pàgina 198 - THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing. With moistened eye We read of faith and purest charity In Statesman, Priest, and humble Citizen...
Pàgina 284 - ... one who makes sentences by the statute, as if all above three inches long were confiscate.
Pàgina 446 - In one shape or another, the physician still has continued to pour drugs, of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less.
Pàgina 477 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shall have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land ; and they shall be your possession.
Pàgina 262 - THE ENGLISH MASTER; Or, STUDENT'S GUIDE TO REASONING AND COMPOSITION. Exhibiting an Analytical View of the English Language, of the Human Mind, and of the Principles of fine Writing. By WILLIAM BANKS, Private Teacher of Composition, Intellectual Philosophy, &c.