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296. oldal - You will excuse — you will justify my being overwhelmed with sorrow ; and accept the assurance of my devotion, and the high consideration with which I have the honour to be, Sir, your very humble and very obedient servant, '* A. MAVROCORDATO. " To J. .Bowring, Esq. " Secretary to the Greek Committee.
82. oldal - I know of no pursuit in which more real and important service can be rendered to any country, than by improving its agriculture...
366. oldal - Certainly there must be some Being who made all these things, a Being that always was, and can never cease to be. He must be inexpressibly more mighty, knowing and wise, than the wisest man.
291. oldal - I am really disgusted with and ashamed of all that I have seen of the battle of Waterloo. The number of writings upon it would lead the world to suppose that the British army had never fought a battle before...
118. oldal - I mean the hitherto unconquered sterility of so large a proportion of the surface of the kingdom ? . . . let us not be satisfied with the liberation of Egypt, or the subjugation of Malta, but let us subdue Finchley Common ; let us conquer Hounslow Heath ; let us compel Epping Forest to submit to the yoke of...
168. oldal - ... lead : shall we, who have a fleet superior to the maritime force of all the world, and who are able to bring two millions of fighting men into the field : shall we yield up this dear and happy land, together with all the liberties and honours, to preserve which our fathers so often dyed the land and the sea with their blood : shall we thus at once dishonour their graves, and stamp disgrace and infamy on the brows of our children...
234. oldal - I written when your letter of Christmas-day came to hand ; as you will easily understand by my submitting to take shame upon me, and assuring you, that I am fully convinced of my false opinion delivered just above concerning Fingal. I did not consider the matter as I ought. Your reasons for the forgery are unanswerable.
191. oldal - Another author, (Mr Mill, in the preface to his History of India), has ably remarked, " That as no fact is more certain, so none is of more importance, in the science of human nature, than this, that the powers of observation, in every individual, are exceedingly limited ; and that it is only by combining the observations of a number of individuals, (or, in other words, forming Codes regarding each important branch of science), that a competent knowledge of any extensive subject can ever be acquired.
287. oldal - The ordinary revolutions of war and government easily dry up the sources of that wealth which arises from commerce only. That which arises from the more solid improvements of agriculture, is much more durable, and cannot be destroyed but by those more violent convulsions occasioned by the depredations of hostile and barbarous nations continued for a century or two together j such as those that happened for some time before and after the fall of the Roman empire in the western provinces of Europe.
94. oldal - If land be unproductive, and a system of ameliorating it is to be attempted, the sure method of obtaining the object is by determining the cause of its sterility, which must necessarily depend upon some defect in the constitution of the soil, which may be easily discovered by chemical analysis.