The Quarterly Review, כרך 63William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1839 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 99
עמוד 4
... object of communicating prompt intelligence to those hundred millions of inhabitants who form the eastern portion of the British empire . The number of steamers which from the port of London alone radiate in almost every direction , is ...
... object of communicating prompt intelligence to those hundred millions of inhabitants who form the eastern portion of the British empire . The number of steamers which from the port of London alone radiate in almost every direction , is ...
עמוד 9
... objects on shore , the slow but sure conquest which the power of steam makes over the two elements of wind and water , both of which are occasionally seen combining to oppose its progress . In places where the cur- rent is the strongest ...
... objects on shore , the slow but sure conquest which the power of steam makes over the two elements of wind and water , both of which are occasionally seen combining to oppose its progress . In places where the cur- rent is the strongest ...
עמוד 15
... objects or noises- because it has no vice in it - because it is not , like a horse , retained and guided by numberless straps and buckles , the breaking of any one of which would make it take fright . And , lastly , be- cause by the ...
... objects or noises- because it has no vice in it - because it is not , like a horse , retained and guided by numberless straps and buckles , the breaking of any one of which would make it take fright . And , lastly , be- cause by the ...
עמוד 16
... object intervenes mechanically to oppose the progress ; and thus , not only at this moment do the crows , heavily as they appear to us to fly , go faster than we travel on the railroad , but every little bird that hops out of the hedge ...
... object intervenes mechanically to oppose the progress ; and thus , not only at this moment do the crows , heavily as they appear to us to fly , go faster than we travel on the railroad , but every little bird that hops out of the hedge ...
עמוד 17
... object is to denote the progress which the power of steam on railways has made in our own country , as well as the mira- culous safety with which it has transported , at a velocity hitherto unknown to mankind , so many millions of ...
... object is to denote the progress which the power of steam on railways has made in our own country , as well as the mira- culous safety with which it has transported , at a velocity hitherto unknown to mankind , so many millions of ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 177 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time, to recover the remnant of His people...
עמוד 319 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of...
עמוד 359 - Slave, I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think, there be six Richmonds in the field ; Five have I slain to-day, instead of him: — A horse ! a horse ! my kingdom for a horse ! [Exeunt.
עמוד 192 - Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night : ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
עמוד 168 - LINDSAY'S LETTERS ON THE HOLY LAND. FOURTH EDITION, Revised, 1 vol., post 8vo, with Illustrations, 6s. bound. " Lord Lindsay has felt and recorded what he saw with the wisdom of a philosopher, and the faith of an enlightened Christian.
עמוד 393 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbour is a plain violation of this most sacred...
עמוד 180 - ... toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name : Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwellingplace, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.
עמוד 169 - WOE to the land shadowing with wings, Which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia : That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, Even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying. Go, ye swift messengers, To a nation scattered and peeled, To a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; A nation meted out and trodden down, Whose land the rivers have spoiled...
עמוד 186 - Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
עמוד 556 - If we are induced to believe the professions of Rome, and make advances towards her as if a sister or a mother Church, which in theory she is, we shall find too late that we are in the arms of a pitiless and unnatural relative, who will but triumph in the arts which have inveigled us within her reach.