Excerpt from The North American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, 1818, Vol. 6 Tales of Miss Edge worth Henry, Patrick, Mr. Wi1t's Sketches of the Life and Character of Hoffman's Course of Legal Studies' Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance Letters from the South Peace, the Friend of Tacitus, Wells' Edition of Wilkinson's Memoir? Of his own Times C. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The North American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Vol. 6 Further than this, he is thought by some to be a wild, luxurious bard, who is to pass through a generous and yet repressing culture, from the frolicks of blooming time, to a full, rich, and sober maturity-whose early licentiousuess shews a leaning alter the better afl'ections'-whose impo rity has its redeeming gracesp-whose errours deserve mer ciful allowances, because they are on the shle of sentiment and greatness. Now he is almost the last poet, for whom we should have thought of setting up the apology of a violent, overrunning nature. We have never lamented in him the oppression or waste of genius, nor the perversions of a fine spirit, whose abandoned gayety would one day mellow into warm-hearted cheerfulnees, and its voluptuous excesses end in singleness and purity of love. He discloses no warm and eager aspiring after something higher and purer, with a promise of lendingby and by to goodness, the graces and enthusiasm he had wasted upon vice. His mind never seems to be unconsciously wrong, from rapture, spontaneous over flow and impulses that will not be ruled. We can discover no depth in his contrition, nor desertion in his grief, nor involuntary glow and tenderness in his friendship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, 1815, Vol. 1 Nor is the present wildnesss of it Without a particular beauty, being all over a naturall grove of Cakes, Pines, Cedars, Ci esse, Mulberry, Chestnut, Lauren, Sassafras. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The North American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Vol. 11: July, 1820 The instructions consist of twenty-seven articles. Of which the first seems to indicate, on the part of the gentlemen concerned in this mission, a tolerably exalted opinion of its importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, 1817, Vol. 4 These are two letters giving an account of the origin of Phili 's war, on which we remarked in the account of Hub bar 8 l'ndian wars. There are some interesting facts in these letters, and enough to show that humanity was often forgotten in the treatment of the Indians, which indeed is not unnatural, when the horrible barbarities they committed against the defenceless is considered. As to the justice of these wars, it is now a mere question of speculation, the ln dians are long since extinct, the whites fortunately cultivate the wilds they traversed; the wild species disappeared be fore the civilized one. The following anecdote ot' a girl is interesting, from thecourage and presence of mind dis covered by her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The North American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Vol. 5 The style of this work is harsh and inelegant; the fol lowing extract however is an exception; we select it from near the commencement of his work, to give some idea of his manner of thinking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The North American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, 1821, Vol. 12 The Edinburgh Review against Oxford, refuted, ' which was in its turn the subject of a very lively retort, in the Edinburgh Review. To this Dr. Copleston rejoined in a pamphlet, of which several long extracts were reprinted in the Boston An thology, and here, if we are not misinformed, the contro versy rested. It is no part of our present purpose to revive it; t e rather, as its essential merits are sometimes waved by the warmest friends of Oxford. It is not unusual to hear suc friends concede that the En lish Universities are by no means to be considered merely as p aces of education, whither young men are to resort to acquire knowledge. There are, on the contrary, two other points of view in which these est ments are entitled to respect. The first is, as affording an eh gible residence for oun men of rank and fortune, between the periods of youth an manhood; subjecting them to some restraints, and calling on them for some efforts, which if they make, it is well, and if they do not, it is better than to have been at the centre of dissipation, in the capital. The other principal light, in which the English Universities are viewed, ts that of a nursery for the established church; not exactly as a place to acquire the knowledge requisite for assumin its dig hitias; but as a middle state of referment, from w ich the candidate is translated, when his our cometh. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, 1816, Vol. 2 A curious instance of his rashness in denying any fact that makes against his theory, and positive manner of assu ring his readers that nothing of the kind existed, occurs in regard to the famous hieroglyphical inscription at Dighton, in Massachusetts. Permit me to undeceive you further about another fact, * equally false, to which the memoir of the French academician has given rise: it has been pub lished throughout Europe, that there had been found in the centre of new-england, a stone which contained an inscription in Thibetian characters, which is, as you know, the country where the Grand Lama resides. After hav ing procured all the information possible, about this pre 'tended monument, I can boldly assure you, that no in scription in any character whatever has ever been dis covered in the whole extent of America, from the country of the Esquimaux to the extremity of Terra del Fuego. This new-england rock is like the medal of Julius Cae sar, which was said to have been dug up among the sav ages called Cesareans, in the neighbourhood of Patagonia. From which you may judge to what degree they have dared to assert the most incredible things, to support the most absurd systems, ' This work of De Pau's discovers a good deal of research into the history of different nations, but the most perverse use is made of his materials, and his ignorance of the real character of the Indians is most profound. The work is written in a style of petulance and sarcasm, often adopted by those who have been called philosophers in modern times, though nothing can be more opposed to the true spirit of philosophy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The North American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Vol. 9 All this however only shows that it is no wonder, and no mark of extraordinary genius, for an untaught man to Write so as not to be detected in his deficiency, while his are those of the imagination; and that if he avoid ground, he may without very uncommon talent reach the common standard of the times. But it is very rare that one without education has done more than this in poetry. Those g1eat geniuses who have outstripped the imagination of their age, and left models for those who come after them, have rarely burst out from obscurity and ignorance. The greatest name in English, indeed in any poetry, .is found in no school or university; but he is an exception, not an example: Burns follows next to him, but at what a distance! And what still more distant warblings lessen on the ear from the many ohson1e poets that have been brought forward 1n England as curiosities, and, for aught we know 'of them, are still living in disappointment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
