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" Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where. "
The Works of Alexander Pope Esq - Page 43
by Alexander Pope - 1751
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Travels in the Central Portions of the Mississippi Valley: Comprising ...

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - America - 1825 - 486 pages
...portion of country, but like the north, there is a total want of agreement respecting its position. " Ask where's the North ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed ; In...at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, and the Lord knows where." At nine o'clock in the morning, we came to a part of the country which is...
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Tracts in Prose and Verse, Volume 1

Thomas Lowndes - 1825 - 590 pages
...to-morrow, private property, is too preposterous for a moment's reflection. For, as Pope says, " Ask where's the north, at York 'tis on the Tweed, In Scotland at the Orcades, and there, At Nova Zembla, or the Lord knows where." In justice to your own patriotic character, for you certainly...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where th* extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask Zcmbla, or the Lord knows where. No creature owns it in the first degree, Hut thinks his neighbour...
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The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life, Volume 2

Hannah More - English literature - 1827 - 596 pages
...that there was a God. In fact we may apply to enthusiasm, what has been said on another occasion : Ask where's the North — At York 'tis on the Tweed, In Scotland at the Oreados ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla But it may be asked, has religious enthusiasm, after all,...
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The Poetical Works, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...endure, then pity, then embrace. 22ft But where*the extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where 's the north ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed ; In Scotland,...or the Lord knows where. No creature owns it in the same degree, But thinks his neighbour further gone than he : E'en those who dwell beneath its very...
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The African Observer

Slavery - 1828 - 390 pages
...cruelty in the general treatment of slaves — But where the extreme of vive wai ne'er agreed, Ask where's the North? at York 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland at the Oreadet;and there At Greenland, Zcmbla, and the Lord knows where. When the controversy respecting the...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 222 pages
...Ask Where's the north ?—at York 'tis on the Tw'e But where th' extreme of vice was ne'er agreed IL> Scotland at the Orcades; and there At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows whe No creature owns it in the first degree, Ev'n those who dwell beneath its very zone, But thinks...
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The Parliamentary Debates, Volume 5

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1822 - 866 pages
...far as we please, this public opinion still recedes before us, like the imaginary pole : — " Ask where's the north — at York, 'tis on the Tweed ;...there At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where." We always admit its existence, but never admit its presence ; and this, by the way,, is an unanswerable...
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The Christian's sketch book

Jabez Burns - 1829 - 378 pages
...face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where the extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the North ? at York 'tis on the Tweed ; In...the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or I know not where. No creature owns it in the First degree, But thinks his neighbour farther gone than...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...endure, then pity, then embrace. 2*20 But where the extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed : Ask whcre's thi' een the Grecian embassy proceeds To his high tent; the great Ulysses leads. first degree, But thinks his neighbour further gone than he : F.'en those who dwell beneath its very...
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