Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal EnlargedR. Griffiths., 1830 Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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... side of Scotland , the marriage , formerly agreed on , between his daughter Margaret and the young Scottish king , was solemnized at York , on Christmas day , with every circumstance of feudal splendour and dignity . The guests at this ...
... side of Scotland , the marriage , formerly agreed on , between his daughter Margaret and the young Scottish king , was solemnized at York , on Christmas day , with every circumstance of feudal splendour and dignity . The guests at this ...
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put to the arbitrament of a combat between thirty on each side , to be fought before the king , in the North Inch of Perth , a beautiful meadow by the side of the Tay . When they mustered their forces , one of the clan Chattan was found ...
put to the arbitrament of a combat between thirty on each side , to be fought before the king , in the North Inch of Perth , a beautiful meadow by the side of the Tay . When they mustered their forces , one of the clan Chattan was found ...
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... side , and went off to carry to the Highlands the news of his clan's defeat . It is said , he was so ill received by his kinsmen , that he put himself to death . Some part of the above story is matter of tradition , but the general fact ...
... side , and went off to carry to the Highlands the news of his clan's defeat . It is said , he was so ill received by his kinsmen , that he put himself to death . Some part of the above story is matter of tradition , but the general fact ...
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... side he had been , that he was fighting for his own hand . Hence the proverb , ' every man for his own hand , as Henry Wynd fought . ' " - Tales of a Grandfather , 1st Series . One other comparison , we think , will suffice to prove ...
... side he had been , that he was fighting for his own hand . Hence the proverb , ' every man for his own hand , as Henry Wynd fought . ' " - Tales of a Grandfather , 1st Series . One other comparison , we think , will suffice to prove ...
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... side , the dis- sensions so frequent in a Scottish camp did not exist , and the armed natives of some particular districts fought with unanimity under a Stuart or a Douglas , whose command was acknowledged by all in the field . Such was ...
... side , the dis- sensions so frequent in a Scottish camp did not exist , and the armed natives of some particular districts fought with unanimity under a Stuart or a Douglas , whose command was acknowledged by all in the field . Such was ...
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Seite 282 - His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order ; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke ; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.
Seite 118 - Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of Hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Seite 282 - Hence the common remark of his officers, of the advantage he derived from councils of war, where hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever was best; and certainly no general ever planned his battles more judiciously.
Seite 518 - The shield of his mighty men is made red ; the valiant men are in scarlet : — the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
Seite 328 - THE awful shadow of some unseen power Floats, though unseen, among us — visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower ; Like moonbeams, that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance, Like hues and harmonies of evening, Like clouds in starlight widely spread, Like memory of music fled, Like aught that for its grace may be Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.
Seite 518 - Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Seite 328 - Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been! Thus let thy power, which like the truth Of nature on my passive youth Descended, to my onward life supply Its calm — to one who worships thee, And every form containing thee, Whom, SPIRIT fair, thy spells did bind To fear himself, and love all human kind.
Seite 328 - Why fear and dream and death and birth Cast on the daylight of this earth Such gloom, why man has such a scope For love and hate, despondency and hope...
Seite 283 - This he had acquired by conversation with the world, for his education was merely reading, writing and common arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. His time was employed in action chiefly, reading little, and that only in agriculture and English history. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and, with journalising his agricultural proceedings, occupied most of his leisure hours within doors.
Seite 592 - ... the reports of his medical attendant were far from establishing the existence of any thing like lunacy. Under this uncertainty, I deemed it right to communicate to my parents, that if I were to consider Lord Byron's past conduct as that of a person of sound mind, nothing could induce me to return to him.