Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Band 16William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone W. Tait, 1849 |
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... English residents and mer- chants on the other . To explain and illustrate the position we at present || consequently took place which it was foreseen would occupy in the Oriental Archipelago , it may be useful to glance over that ...
... English residents and mer- chants on the other . To explain and illustrate the position we at present || consequently took place which it was foreseen would occupy in the Oriental Archipelago , it may be useful to glance over that ...
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... English , the duty charged might have been fifty instead of twenty - five per cent . When news of these first infractions of the treaty arrived in England , complaints were immediately ad- dressed to Ministers ; and , in the month of ...
... English , the duty charged might have been fifty instead of twenty - five per cent . When news of these first infractions of the treaty arrived in England , complaints were immediately ad- dressed to Ministers ; and , in the month of ...
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... English , and in direct contra- vention of the treaty of 1821. For a considerable time , moreover , they have endeavoured to keep us in trade . " It is to be feared that in this country sufficicut im- portance will scarcely be attached ...
... English , and in direct contra- vention of the treaty of 1821. For a considerable time , moreover , they have endeavoured to keep us in trade . " It is to be feared that in this country sufficicut im- portance will scarcely be attached ...
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... English , the Dutch con- tented themselves with throwing out suspicions of piracy against the nakodah . The object , of course , was to strike terror into the native merchants , and thus , as far as possible , to deter them from the ...
... English , the Dutch con- tented themselves with throwing out suspicions of piracy against the nakodah . The object , of course , was to strike terror into the native merchants , and thus , as far as possible , to deter them from the ...
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Seite 183 - Shades of the dead ! have I not heard your voices Rise on the night-rolling breath of the gale?" Surely the soul of the hero rejoices, And rides on the wind o'er his own Highland vale.
Seite 65 - Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Seite 86 - ... the authority of law and the security of property were found to be compatible with a liberty of discussion and of individual action never before known ; how, from the auspicious union of order and freedom, sprang a prosperity of which the annals of human affairs had furnished no example ; how our country, from a state of ignominious vassalage...
Seite 86 - I greatly deceive myself, the general effect of this chequered narrative will be to excite thankfulness in all religious minds, and hope in the breasts of all patriots. For the history of our country during the last hundred and sixty years is eminently the history of physical, of moral, and of intellectual improvement.
Seite 98 - Sculptors, painters, and medallists exerted their utmost skill in the work of transmitting his features to posterity ; and his features were such as no artist could fail to seize, and such as, once seen, could never be forgotten. His name at once calls up before us a slender and feeble frame, a lofty and ample forehead, a nose curved like the beak of an eagle, an eye rivalling that of an eagle in brightness and keenness, a thoughtful...
Seite 86 - ... was gradually established a public credit fruitful of marvels which to the statesmen of any former age would have seemed incredible ; how a gigantic commerce gave birth to a maritime power, compared with which every other maritime power, ancient or modern, sinks into insignificance ; how Scotland, after ages of enmity, was at length united to England, not merely by legal bonds, but by indissoluble ties of interest and affection ; how, in America, the British colonies rapidly became far mightier...
Seite 248 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Seite 88 - ... any man as disqualified, by reason of his nation or of his family, for the priesthood. Her doctrines respecting the sacerdotal character, however erroneous they may be, have repeatedly mitigated some of the worst evils which can afflict society. That superstition cannot be regarded as unmixedly noxious...
Seite 251 - Frank from many days' journey off, and he walks up to the very place, and he takes a stick (illustrating the description at the same time with the point of his spear), and makes a line here, and makes a line there. Here, says he, is the palace; there, says he, is the gate ; and he shows us what has been all our lives beneath our feet, without our having known anything about it. Wonderful! Wonderful ! Is it by books, is it by magic, is it by your prophets, that you have learnt these things? Speak,...
Seite 88 - The two races, so long hostile, soon found that they had common interests and common enemies. Both were alike aggrieved by the tyranny of a bad king. Both were alike indignant at the favour shown by the court to the natives of Poitou and Aquitaine. The greatgrandsons of those who had fought under William and the greatgrandsons of those who had fought under Harold began to draw near to each other in OO friendship ; and the first pledge of their reconciliation was the Great Charter, won by their united...