 Johnson (though with ten times his talent) ; he 'has also been hurried off, and in so far my prospects of social ' pleasure when I go to London are materially lessened. " We are still agitated here by the consequences of the transition ' from a state...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Side i1826Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1826 - 820 sider
...deep to allow those who remained at home to be diverted from thegame by anything less serious. When peace came on, the reaction which men of sense anticipated...to them were added the dreadful seasons of 1816 and 1817, when the crops failed all through Europe, it is no wonder that an unparalleled degree of distress... | |
 | 1817 - 710 sider
...of the revenue was no ground for depression ; the present distress was but temporary, occasioned by the transition from a state of war to a state of peace. The expenditure daring the last year of the war, among the labouring classes of the community, amounted... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1817 - 710 sider
...amount of taxes paid by the manufacturer and landholder, and not in any temporary causes, arising out of the transition from a state of war to a state of peace, or from the falling off of the demands of government for those supplies of manufactured articles which... | |
 | 1825 - 798 sider
...; we have no Milan decrees to cripple our trade ; and we have got beyond the troubles consequent on the " transition from a state of war to a state of peace." We seemed, in fact, in the full tide of prosperity, when we were suddenly overwhelmed by an unforeseen... | |
 | 1817 - 590 sider
...class, who suffered severely, but without complaining. It was shewn in our last Number, in what manner the transition from a state of war to a state of peace produced, inevitably, great embarrassment and extensive distress. The war, a customer to the amount... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1819 - 342 sider
...sooner were we left to ourselves, than we found how unsubstantial our supposed advantages were, and the transition ,, from a state of war to a state of peace convinced / us that we could not interfere in the work of slaughter arid destruction, without paying... | |
 | 1820 - 558 sider
...capital had been invested. Were the distress less general, it might be supposed to be occasioned by the transition from a state of war to a state of peace. In that case, however, as soon as tranquillity had been restored, a stimulus would have been given... | |
 | Mathew Carey - 1823 - 92 sider
...and that we could not reasonably expect an exemption. The other, that all our difficulties arose from the transition from a state of war to a state of peace. These ideas were caught at with avidity by those, who, zealous advocates of the existing policy, shut... | |
 | 1826 - 622 sider
...and of the Bombastes Furioso styles. Reviewing the state of public affairs, the writer says : " When peace came on, the reaction which men of sense anticipated...state of war to a state of peace, was productive," &c. It is one of the characteristics of the Twaddlers to find something particularly admirable and... | |
 | 1831 - 884 sider
...causes of this distress. Though he was fully sensible that much of the distress might have arisen from the transition from a State of war to a state of peace, yet he could not help recollecting, that a very great part of the difficulties from which they had... | |
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