The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Volume 16Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1832 - Great Britain |
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Page 240 - That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head.
Page 175 - disdaining the parade of taking possession of beaten enemies, most gallantly pushed up, with every sail set, to save his old friend and messmate, who was, to appearance, in a critical situation...
Page 60 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours, but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.
Page 120 - I am visionary enough to imagine, that if these opinions should become so established as to be generally admitted by philosophers, that if they once saw reason to believe that life was something of an invisible and active nature superadded to organization, they would then see equal reason to believe that mind might be superadded to life, as life is to structure.
Page 142 - I tell'd ye sae," said the Aberdeen man in a whisper to Edie, and then proceeded to open the door near which they had observed the chaplain stationed. CHAPTER XXVIII -This ring,— This little ring, with necromantic force. Has raised the ghost of Pleasure to my fears, Conjured the sense of honour and of love Into such shapes, they fright me from myself The Fatal Marriage.
Page 20 - Roubigne, is of a very different tenor from The Man of the World ; and we have good authority for thinking, that it was written in some degree as a counterpart to the latter work. A friend of the author...
Page 141 - Oh, I have heard all this ! But must no more the charmer is no more : My buried husband rises in the face Of my dear boy, and chides me for my stay : Canst thou forgive me, child f Child.
Page 195 - To sum up all in a few words, this great prelate had the good humour of a gentleman, the eloquence of an orator, the fancy of a poet, the acuteness of a schoolman, the profoundness of a philosopher, the wisdom of a counsellor, the sagacity of a prophet, the reason of an angel, and the piety of a saint...
Page 21 - ... the beautiful manner in which they are expressed. There are few who have not had, at one period of life, disappointments of the heart to mourn over; and we know no book which recalls the recollection of such more severely than Julia de Roubigne. " We return to consider the key-note, as we may term it, on which Mackenzie has formed his tales of fictitious woe, and which we have repeatedly described to be the illustration of the nicer and finer sensibilities of the human breast. To attain this...
Page 177 - The support and assistance I have received from Captain Berry cannot be sufficiently expressed. I was wounded in the head, and obliged to be carried off the deck; but the service sustained no loss by that event. Captain Berry was fully equal to the important service then going on, and to him I must beg leave to refer you for every information relative to this victory.