The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 8, Issue 15Leonard Scott Publication Company, 1808 |
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... volume to which we find it impossible to give an unqualified assent . The main question here , it is obvious , is the question of right . For , though the author has spent a great deal of time in proving that we have a substantial ...
... volume to which we find it impossible to give an unqualified assent . The main question here , it is obvious , is the question of right . For , though the author has spent a great deal of time in proving that we have a substantial ...
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... volume . Dr Griffiths , the author of the volume before us , relates in it the history of his travels from England to Italy , thence to Constantinople , thence to Smyrna , thence to Aleppo , and , fin- ally , across the desert to ...
... volume . Dr Griffiths , the author of the volume before us , relates in it the history of his travels from England to Italy , thence to Constantinople , thence to Smyrna , thence to Aleppo , and , fin- ally , across the desert to ...
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... volume before us . It is now more than half a century , fince Abdul Wahab began to promulgate a new creed in Arabia . His first doctrines pro- bably extended no further than to his own peculiar interpreta- tions of the Koran ; and his ...
... volume before us . It is now more than half a century , fince Abdul Wahab began to promulgate a new creed in Arabia . His first doctrines pro- bably extended no further than to his own peculiar interpreta- tions of the Koran ; and his ...
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... volume in which it is contained . It cannot be read without deeply impreffing the mind with abhorrence for the cruelty , cunning , and rapacity of the modern mafters of Afia Minor . Virtue is not acknowledged if it do not conform with ...
... volume in which it is contained . It cannot be read without deeply impreffing the mind with abhorrence for the cruelty , cunning , and rapacity of the modern mafters of Afia Minor . Virtue is not acknowledged if it do not conform with ...
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... volume , by informing his readers of his safe arrival at Bombay from Bassorah , though he does not fa- vour us with the particulars of his voyage . We should be unwil- ling to pass a severe sentence on his innocent quarto . When a man ...
... volume , by informing his readers of his safe arrival at Bombay from Bassorah , though he does not fa- vour us with the particulars of his voyage . We should be unwil- ling to pass a severe sentence on his innocent quarto . When a man ...
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Page 178 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams...
Page 187 - Thus saying, from her husband's hand her hand Soft she withdrew ; and like a wood-nymph light, Oread or Dryad, or of Delia's train, Betook her to the groves, but Delia's self In gait...
Page 178 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 189 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 182 - Astonied stood and blank, while horror chill Ran through his veins, and all his joints relax'd...
Page 183 - Castalian spring might with this Paradise Of Eden strive; nor that Nyseian isle Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham, Whom Gentiles Ammon call and...
Page 8 - But without reference to accidents of the one kind or other, the general rule is, that the neutral has a right to carry on, in time of war, his accustomed trade to the utmost extent of which that accustomed trade is capable. Very different is the case of a trade which the neutral has never possessed, which he holds by no title of use and habit in times of peace, and which, in fact...
Page 183 - While thus he spake, the angelic squadron bright Turn'd fiery red, sharpening in mooned horns Their phalanx, and began to hem him round With ported spears...
Page 13 - The private property of pacific and industrious individuals seems to be protected, and except in the single case of maritime capture it is spared accordingly by the general usage of all modern nations. No army now plunders unarmed individuals ashore, except for the purpose" of providing for its own subsistence. And the laws of war are thought to be violated by the seizure of private property for the sake of gain, even within the limits of the hostile territory. It is not easy at first sight to discover...