The Quarterly Review, Volumen76William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1845 |
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... and generosity of their apparent scope and purpose . Our general objections remain . We , in the first place , place , although admitting and deploring the existence of much 2 The Child of the Islands - by Mrs. Norton .
... and generosity of their apparent scope and purpose . Our general objections remain . We , in the first place , place , although admitting and deploring the existence of much 2 The Child of the Islands - by Mrs. Norton .
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... admitting and deploring the existence of much guilt and much distress , by no means believe that the Nation is either so wicked or so unhappy as it is the fashion to assume . We believe that the upper classes are not more negligent of ...
... admitting and deploring the existence of much guilt and much distress , by no means believe that the Nation is either so wicked or so unhappy as it is the fashion to assume . We believe that the upper classes are not more negligent of ...
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... admit ; Though Death is trembling in the adverse scale , He recks no more than if he heard the autumn gale . Oh , Eloquence , a moving thing art thou ! Tradition tells us many a mournful story Of scaffold - sentenced men , with noble ...
... admit ; Though Death is trembling in the adverse scale , He recks no more than if he heard the autumn gale . Oh , Eloquence , a moving thing art thou ! Tradition tells us many a mournful story Of scaffold - sentenced men , with noble ...
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... admit the numerical preponderance of the trading and manufacturing population ; and we are quite ready to admit that same class to be the most productive of national wealth of one description ; but , again , we ask , is such species of ...
... admit the numerical preponderance of the trading and manufacturing population ; and we are quite ready to admit that same class to be the most productive of national wealth of one description ; but , again , we ask , is such species of ...
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... admit of a com- fortable solution ; namely , that the adults of France , from whom the conscripts are drawn , are better educated than their seniors , who form probably half the population . Comparing Irish with American education , we ...
... admit of a com- fortable solution ; namely , that the adults of France , from whom the conscripts are drawn , are better educated than their seniors , who form probably half the population . Comparing Irish with American education , we ...
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Página 90 - I wish it were still in my power to be a hypocrite in this particular. The common duties of society usually require it ; and the ecclesiastical profession only adds a little more to an innocent dissimulation, or rather simulation, without which it is impossible to pass through the world.
Página 323 - It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Página 140 - The best English book, beyond comparison, that ever has appeared for the Illustration, not merely of the general topography and local curiosities, but of the national character and manner* of Spain. " — Quarterly Review. "This is a very clever and amusing work.
Página 460 - There were Chesterfield and Fanny, In that eternal whisper which begun Ten years ago, and never will be done; For though you know he sees her every day, Still he has ever something new to say.
Página 259 - His Britannic Majesty, on his side, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholic religion to the inhabitants of Canada ; he will, consequently, give the most precise and most effectual orders that his new Roman Catholic subjects may profess the worship of their religion, according to the rites of the Romish Church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permit.
Página 164 - This is a book which rivets the attention, and makes the heart bleed. It has, indeed, with regard to himself, in its substance, though not in its arrangement, an almost dramatic character ; so clearly and strongly is the living, thinking, active man projected from the face of the records which he has left. " His spirit was a battle-field, upon which, with fluctuating fortune and singular intensity, the powers of belief and scepticism waged, from first to last, their unceasing war; and within the...
Página 451 - Windsor; then, if he had half an hour to spare, trying to swallow something : — Mr. Adams with a paper, Mr. Long with another ; then Mr. Rose : then, with a little bottle of cordial confection in his pocket, off to the House until three or four in the morning ; then home to a hot supper for two or three hours more, to talk over what was to be done next day : — and wine, and wine ! — Scarcely up next morning, when tat-tat-tat — twenty or thirty people one after another, and the horses walking...
Página 188 - Then, becoming rabid in his infatuation, he proceeds to stigmatize f ' the mean ambition, the low and degraded character, and the worldly views ' of the Martyrs of that Lord who is ' to be glorified in His Saints and admired in them that believe...
Página 112 - Every horse has a man and a maid to himself — the maid cuts grass for him ; and every dog has a boy. I inquired whether the cat had any servants, but I found that she was allowed to wait upon herself; and, as she seemed the only person in the establishment capable of so doing, I respected her accordingly.
Página 361 - That they were designed to answer, at least, a twofold use, namely, to serve as belfries, and as keeps, or places of strength, in which the sacred utensils, books, relics, and other valuables were deposited, and into which the ecclesiastics, to whom they belonged, could retire for security in cases of sudden predatory attack.