The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]., Volume 22John George Cochrane 1839 |
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... army . The nature of this academy , and a visit once paid by him with his father to his former regiment , when on duty in the neighbourhood , form the sole foundation for this report . were by no means confined to those of a military 46 ...
... army . The nature of this academy , and a visit once paid by him with his father to his former regiment , when on duty in the neighbourhood , form the sole foundation for this report . were by no means confined to those of a military 46 ...
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... army ; how her southern dominions were to be traversed entirely ; and how the Persians , who hate the Turks with a personal and religious , not political hatred alone , were to embrace them as brethren , give them up their country to ...
... army ; how her southern dominions were to be traversed entirely ; and how the Persians , who hate the Turks with a personal and religious , not political hatred alone , were to embrace them as brethren , give them up their country to ...
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... army and the discontents that have long existed in particular regiments , that caused the fierce insurrection when General Miloradovitch was killed , and that on more than one occasion have shaken the ap- parent security of Nicholas ...
... army and the discontents that have long existed in particular regiments , that caused the fierce insurrection when General Miloradovitch was killed , and that on more than one occasion have shaken the ap- parent security of Nicholas ...
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... army had arrived at a height so un- expected and mortifying ; and so perfect was the benevolence of his heart and disposition , that though in possession of positive evidence of the treason , and of a certified list of the traitors , he ...
... army had arrived at a height so un- expected and mortifying ; and so perfect was the benevolence of his heart and disposition , that though in possession of positive evidence of the treason , and of a certified list of the traitors , he ...
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... army made any further advance . I be- lieve neither of these to have been the determining motive . I have the authority of high officers of foreign powers , then stationed in the camp as deputies to witness the proceedings , that there ...
... army made any further advance . I be- lieve neither of these to have been the determining motive . I have the authority of high officers of foreign powers , then stationed in the camp as deputies to witness the proceedings , that there ...
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Page 103 - Be strong, fear not : behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence ; he will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing : for in the wilderness _shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Page 106 - And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
Page 76 - Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs ; In Sion also not unsung, where stood Her temple on the offensive mountain, built By that uxorious king, whose heart, though large, Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul.
Page 131 - And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
Page 373 - He either tyrannized or deceived ; and was, by turns, a Dionysius and a Scapin. As well might the writhing obliquity of the serpent be compared to the swift directness of the arrow, as the duplicity of Mr. Hastings's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity.
Page 74 - Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded; the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat; Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Ezekiel saw, when, by the vision led, His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah.
Page 373 - Is it not solely to be traced in great actions directed to great ends ? In them, • and them alone, we are to search for true estimable magnanimity.
Page 131 - Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not: for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God.
Page 372 - Alike in the political and the military line could be observed auctioneering ambassadors and trading generals ; — and thus we saw a revolution brought about by affidavits; an army employed in executing an arrest; a town besieged on a note of hand; a prince dethroned for the balance of an account. Thus it was they exhibited a government which united the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre, and the little traffic of a merchant's counting-house, wielding a truncheon with one hand, and picking a pocket...
Page 373 - Hastings's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity. In his mind all was shuffling, ambiguous, dark, insidious, and little: nothing simple, nothing unmixed: all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation...