Memoir of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence of James Currie ...Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831 |
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... Look , on the other Stripped of thirteen colonies , and involved in 150 millions sterling of an additional debt by the war with , and the revolution of , America , she found herself at the commencement of the peace obliged to perpe ...
... Look , on the other Stripped of thirteen colonies , and involved in 150 millions sterling of an additional debt by the war with , and the revolution of , America , she found herself at the commencement of the peace obliged to perpe ...
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... look at my estate . I was greatly pleased with it ; a more beautiful spot I hardly ever saw . I indulge the hope that I may one day reside there , and spend my latter days in tranquillity and peace . I know how generally fallacious such ...
... look at my estate . I was greatly pleased with it ; a more beautiful spot I hardly ever saw . I indulge the hope that I may one day reside there , and spend my latter days in tranquillity and peace . I know how generally fallacious such ...
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... probable , but not im- possible , ) I look to your hospitable shore for a safe refuge . I am , in haste , my dear Sir , Yours most truly , JAMES CURRIE . No. 6 . MY DEAR FRIEND , Liverpool , July 36 SELECTION FROM THE.
... probable , but not im- possible , ) I look to your hospitable shore for a safe refuge . I am , in haste , my dear Sir , Yours most truly , JAMES CURRIE . No. 6 . MY DEAR FRIEND , Liverpool , July 36 SELECTION FROM THE.
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... look for it in vain through Europe , are casting a longing eye on your peaceful shores . Of this number I confess I am one . Proba- bly , however , I may never leave England ; but possibly I may ; for I see the clouds gathering , that ...
... look for it in vain through Europe , are casting a longing eye on your peaceful shores . Of this number I confess I am one . Proba- bly , however , I may never leave England ; but possibly I may ; for I see the clouds gathering , that ...
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... look to . The difficulties in the way of peace arise partly from the unsettled state of things in France ; partly from the extreme folly as well as igno- rance of the Germans and Prussians ; and above all from England , who alone could ...
... look to . The difficulties in the way of peace arise partly from the unsettled state of things in France ; partly from the extreme folly as well as igno- rance of the Germans and Prussians ; and above all from England , who alone could ...
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acquaintance Adieu affectionate America appear apprehend Captain character conduct consider constitution conversation correspondence danger dear boy DEAR FRIEND DEAR GRAHAM DEAR SIR DEAR WALLACE degree doubt Dugald Stewart Edinburgh effects England Europe exertions express father favour fear feel fellow folly France French French Revolution give Graham Moore habits hand happy hear heart honour hope House of Commons human influence interest Ireland JAMES CURRIE Jane Shore Jasper Wilson judgment kind king letter liberty Liverpool Lord Manchester manner mean ment mind minister Moore Mungo Park nation nature never obliged observations occasion opinion paper Pasigraphie passion peace perhaps persons Pitt pleasure Poland politics present principles produced proper Prussian racter respect Revolution Scotland seems sentiments situation society speak spirit Springkell Stadthold suppose Tacitus talents thing thought tion truth whole wish write
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386 ページ - twas strange, 'twas passing strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful; She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished That heaven had made her such a man; she thanked me, And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her.
453 ページ - I must confess, when I see princes and states fighting and quarrelling, amidst their debts, funds, and public mortgages, it always brings to my mind a match of cudgel-playing fought in a China shop.
431 ページ - And as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water, which when it is gone by, the trace thereof cannot be found, neither the pathway of the keel in the waves...
391 ページ - The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
352 ページ - The traveller got upon a standing net, a little way from the shore. There he lashed himself to the post, shouting for half an hour for assistance — till the tide rose over his head ! in the darkness of the night, and amid the pauses of the hurricane, his voice, heard at intervals, was exquisitely mournful.
352 ページ - In the darkness of the night, and amid the pauses of the hurricane, his voice, heard at intervals, was exquisitely mournful. No one could go to his assistance — no one knew where he was — the sound seemed to proceed from the spirit of the waters. But morning rose — the tide had ebbed — and the poor traveller was found lashed to the pole of the net, and bleaching in the wind.
476 ページ - Time and industry have already, in a great degree, repaired the losses of property which the citizens sustained during the war. but both have hitherto failed in effacing the taint which was then communicated to their principles, nor can its total ablution be expected till a new generation arises, unpractised in the iniquities of their fathers.
51 ページ - Abolition,' which puts the subject in a very clear point of view, and contains a brief, but masterly, chain of propositions that bear irresistible force. I recommend it to your perusal. The moderation of its language is likely to make it useful.
352 ページ - The west wind blew a tempest, and, according to the common expression, brought in the water three foot a-breast. The traveller got upon a standing net, a little way from the shore. There he lashed himself to the post, shouting for half an hour for assistance — till the tide rose over his head ! In the darkness of...
354 ページ - The throbbing heart's at rest; How still it lies within the breast! Why mourn? Since Death presents us peace And in the grave our Sorrows cease...