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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... Volume the fourth . The Crusade of the Emperor Frederic the First , and of the Kings Philip Augustus of France and Richard of England 65 VII . The Correspondence and Diary of Philip Doddridge , D.D. , Illustrative of various particulars ...
... Volume the fourth . The Crusade of the Emperor Frederic the First , and of the Kings Philip Augustus of France and Richard of England 65 VII . The Correspondence and Diary of Philip Doddridge , D.D. , Illustrative of various particulars ...
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... volume , as a specimen of the work in general , it must at once be pronounced well calculated to compete with other popular publications of a similar kind ; and this alone cannot fail to obtain it a wide circulation . But we turn for a ...
... volume , as a specimen of the work in general , it must at once be pronounced well calculated to compete with other popular publications of a similar kind ; and this alone cannot fail to obtain it a wide circulation . But we turn for a ...
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... volume before us . We shall only for the present advert to one or two singular mis- statements . ' The most numerous people in Scotland , ' says Sir Walter , ' seem to have been the Picts . The successes of the Saxons had , indeed ...
... volume before us . We shall only for the present advert to one or two singular mis- statements . ' The most numerous people in Scotland , ' says Sir Walter , ' seem to have been the Picts . The successes of the Saxons had , indeed ...
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... volume published so recently as last year : Alan " The mode in which the ceremony of his coronation was per- formed , is strikingly illustrative of the manners of that age . The Bishops of St. Andrews and Dunkeld , with the Abbot of ...
... volume published so recently as last year : Alan " The mode in which the ceremony of his coronation was per- formed , is strikingly illustrative of the manners of that age . The Bishops of St. Andrews and Dunkeld , with the Abbot of ...
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... volume who can procure his " Tales of a Grandfather . " We may exemplify this by quoting his abridged account of the incident upon which he formed his tale of the Fair Maid of Perth : - ' Ere yet the monarch was crowned , the Earl of ...
... volume who can procure his " Tales of a Grandfather . " We may exemplify this by quoting his abridged account of the incident upon which he formed his tale of the Fair Maid of Perth : - ' Ere yet the monarch was crowned , the Earl of ...
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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.