The Quarterly Review, Volume 17John Murray, 1817 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 6
... thing about freedom , in what manner was it to be promoted by knocking out the brains of these innocent women ? Was not the object of the chief accomplished by the single murder of the How ? The murders which Dr. Martin makes his ...
... thing about freedom , in what manner was it to be promoted by knocking out the brains of these innocent women ? Was not the object of the chief accomplished by the single murder of the How ? The murders which Dr. Martin makes his ...
Page 8
... thing to make his situation more comfortable , and that it was in her power to procure for him whatever he might reasonably desire . Her conduct towards him was , from that time , as if he had been her own child . Power and ambition ...
... thing to make his situation more comfortable , and that it was in her power to procure for him whatever he might reasonably desire . Her conduct towards him was , from that time , as if he had been her own child . Power and ambition ...
Page 20
... thing which could now be done , would be to cut each woman in two , and divide her between the claimants . The judgment of Finow was not like the judgment of Solomon , a proof of wisdom ; it was a bravado of that brutish , or rather ...
... thing which could now be done , would be to cut each woman in two , and divide her between the claimants . The judgment of Finow was not like the judgment of Solomon , a proof of wisdom ; it was a bravado of that brutish , or rather ...
Page 22
... thing which Dr. Martin relates of him and of his victims leads to the inference , that the charge was false . Some of these chiefs were taken to the beach , and immediately dispatched with the club ; others carried out to sea , and then ...
... thing which Dr. Martin relates of him and of his victims leads to the inference , that the charge was false . Some of these chiefs were taken to the beach , and immediately dispatched with the club ; others carried out to sea , and then ...
Page 27
... things which deprive us altogether of things truly useful . I will not say to you , give up your thoughts of fighting . Let but the front of war approach our land , and any come to plunder our homes , and we will shew them that while ...
... things which deprive us altogether of things truly useful . I will not say to you , give up your thoughts of fighting . Let but the front of war approach our land , and any come to plunder our homes , and we will shew them that while ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alceste ambassador ancient appear army British Buonaparte called Captain ceremony character chief Chinese Christian circumstances civil Clarke coast College colonies Descartes doubt drama Duke East India College effect Egypt Ellis embassy emperor England English Ettenheim Europe fact favour feelings feet Fezzan Finow France French Himalaya honour human hundred India inhabitants interest island Jaffa Java king labour Lady Morgan land language less letter Lord Amherst Lord Macartney Lord Wellesley Malthus mandarins manner means miles mind Moorcroft moral mountains murder nation natives nature object observed occasion officers opinion Paris pass peculiar Péron persons philosophy political population Portugueze present Prester John prince racter readers reason religion remarkable respect river says seems sent shew ship Spain spirit supposed temple thing tion Tonga Tonga Islands travellers truth Tyrol visited vols whole writer
Popular passages
Page 355 - John. It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humour, than advis'd respect.
Page 371 - Population invariably increases where the means of subsistence increase, unless prevented by some very powerful and obvious checks. 3. These checks, and the checks which repress the superior power of population, and keep its effects on a level with the means of subsistence, are all resolvable into moral restraint, vice, and misery.
Page 302 - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.
Page 145 - He appears also to have experienced some vile treatment from his intimate friends ; as he is induced to protest that he ' cannot help exclaiming against the gross and villainous trick which some people have when they wish to get rid of their company, of letting their fires go down and their candles run to seed.'* That he has sufficient reasons therefore for directing his talents to the amelioration of manners, there can be no doubt : — the next point of importance is to ascertain the particular...
Page 302 - Men, to perform a generous action : in so free and kind a manner did they contribute to my relief, that if I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught ; and if hungry, I ate the coarsest morsel with a double relish.
Page 444 - God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness : because that which may be known of God is manifest in them ; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead : so that they are without excuse.
Page 364 - He professes to have read some of the speculations on the future improvement of society in a temper very different from a wish to find them visionary, but he has not acquired that command over his understanding which would enable him to believe what he wishes, without evidence, or to refuse his assent to what might be unpleasing, when accompanied with evidence.
Page 365 - ... the human species would increase as the numbers, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256; and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Page 302 - ... plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double...
Page 369 - ... to be found in the Essay, nor legitimately to be inferred from any part of it, it has been continually repeated in various quarters for fourteen years, and now appears in the pages of Mr. Grahame. For the last time I will now notice it; and should it still continue to be brought forward, I think I may be fairly excused from paying the slightest further attention either to the imputation itself, or to those who advance it. 'If I had merely stated that the tendency of the human race to increase...