 | Walter Scott - 1877 - Liczba stron: 650
...are from those of Queen Elizabeth's time. The political and economical effects of these changes have been traced by Lord Selkirk with great precision and...smooth river, we are not aware of the progress we have in«l<>, until we fix our eye on the now distant point from which we have been drifted. — Such of... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - Liczba stron: 468
...Selkirk with great precision and accuracy. But the change, though steadily and rapidly progressing, has, nevertheless, been gradual ; and, like those...our eye on the now distant point from which we have boen drifted. Sach of the present generation as can recollect the last twenty or twenty-fire years... | |
 | 1890 - Liczba stron: 932
...of the political year. The change which has taken place since those halcyon days, though great, has been gradual, " and, like those who drift down the...now distant point from which we have been drifted." The first question we must ask ourselves in connection with the present subject is where we are to... | |
 | ANDREW LANG - 1892 - Liczba stron: 454
...are from those of Queeu Elizabeth's time. The political and economical effects of these changes have been traced by Lord Selkirk with great precision and...now distant point from which we have been drifted. Such of the present generation as can recollect the last twenty or twenty-five years of the eighteenth... | |
 | Charles Welch - 1894 - Liczba stron: 322
...of the imperceptible gradations by which national and political changes are wrought, finely says, " Like those who drift down the stream of a deep and...our eye on the now distant point from which we have drifted " (last chapter of " Waverley "). There are many streets which appear in Aggas's and Horwood's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1895 - Liczba stron: 386
...of Queen Elizabeth's time. The political and economical effects of these changes have been traced hy Lord Selkirk with great precision and accuracy. But...now distant point from which we have been drifted. Such of the present generation as can recollect the last twenty or twenty-five years of the eighteenth... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1897 - Liczba stron: 402
...are from those of Queen Elizabeth's time. The political and economical effects of these changes have been traced by Lord Selkirk with great precision and...now distant point from which we have been drifted. Such of the present generation as can recollect the last twenty or twenty-five years of the eighteenth... | |
 | Charles Sanford Terry - 1900 - Liczba stron: 368
...different from their grandfathers, as the existing English are from those of Queen Elizabeth's time. . . . But the change, though steadily and rapidly progressive,...progress we have made until we fix our eye on the now-distant point from which we have been drifted. Such of the present generation as can recollect... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - Liczba stron: 766
...are from those of Queen Elizabeth's time. The political and economical effects of these changes have been traced by Lord Selkirk with great precision and...now distant point from which we have been drifted. Such of the present generation as can recollect the last twenty or twenty-five years of the eighteenth... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - 1928 - Liczba stron: 466
...different from their grandfathers, as the existing English are from those of Queen Elizabeth's time. . . . But the change, though steadily and rapidly Progressive,...progress we have made until we fix our eye on the now-distant point from which we have drifted. Such of the present generation as can recollect the last... | |
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But the change, though steadily and rapidly progressive, has nevertheless been gradual; and, like those who drift down the stream of a deep and smooth river, we are not aware of the progress we have made until we fix our eye on the now distant point from... 
