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New facts , new experiments , and new views are constantly arising , and the
collision of these give rise to important disclosures occasionally , whereby the
great ultimate objects of physiology are forwarded . Errors are perpetually finding
...
New facts , new experiments , and new views are constantly arising , and the
collision of these give rise to important disclosures occasionally , whereby the
great ultimate objects of physiology are forwarded . Errors are perpetually finding
...
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We only call Sir John's attention to the fact ; but in future poetical adventures he
should deem it of consequence to be ... It is no proper subject of poetical
compliment that a page is “ full of facts : " and there is no occasion to praise
Genlis when ...
We only call Sir John's attention to the fact ; but in future poetical adventures he
should deem it of consequence to be ... It is no proper subject of poetical
compliment that a page is “ full of facts : " and there is no occasion to praise
Genlis when ...
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With this view , we mention in particular the fact , that two half faces depicted on a
card , nearly an inch asunder , with the ears preposterously toward each other ;
the one half face being seen with the left eye , and the other with the right , are ...
With this view , we mention in particular the fact , that two half faces depicted on a
card , nearly an inch asunder , with the ears preposterously toward each other ;
the one half face being seen with the left eye , and the other with the right , are ...
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In the faculty of rendering his tales and novels vehicles for useful information , by
means either of laying before his readers previously unknown facts , or of tracing
the connexion of some well - known fact with a remote and unthought of cause ...
In the faculty of rendering his tales and novels vehicles for useful information , by
means either of laying before his readers previously unknown facts , or of tracing
the connexion of some well - known fact with a remote and unthought of cause ...
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task as a writer could undertake- ( how wonderfully has Shakspeare done this in
his Hamlet ! only that he is gloomy , instead of wild ) -- the chief difficulty being
that such a person's inconsistency is , in fact , always consistent with itself .
task as a writer could undertake- ( how wonderfully has Shakspeare done this in
his Hamlet ! only that he is gloomy , instead of wild ) -- the chief difficulty being
that such a person's inconsistency is , in fact , always consistent with itself .
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Página 50 - A DICTIONARY, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation.
Página 211 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Página 211 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 309 - ... country. Southey, by his marvellous excursions in the regions both of history and romance — Coleridge, by his wild fictions of a class entirely his own, in which there is an indescribable witchery of phrase and conceit, that affects the imagination as if one had eaten of " the insane root that takes the reason prisoner...
Página 81 - And they chaunted the deeds of Roland. Still the ramparted ground . With a vision my fancy inspires, And I hear the trump sound, As it marshalled our Chivalry's sires. On each turf of that mead Stood the captors of England's domains, That ennobled her breed And high-mettled the blood of her veins.
Página 149 - ... with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our Royal Proclamation, hereby...
Página 155 - ... them an hour together. If I had time I stayed by them to see them die, and see the manner of their death, and closed up their mouth and eyes ; for they died with their mouth and eyes very much open and staring. Then if people had nobody to help them (for help was scarce at such a time and place), I helped to lay them forth out of the bed, and afterwards into the coffin ; and, last of all, accompanied them to the ground.
Página 39 - Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.
Página 115 - King in person, who delivered the following speech: — " MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, " I AM at length enabled to put an end to a session of unexampled duration and labour, in which matters of the deepest interest have been brought under your consideration. I have felt sincere satisfaction in confirming, by my royal assent, bills for the amendment of the game laws, and for the reduction of taxes which pressed heavily on the industry of my people...
Página 115 - GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, " I thank you for the provision made for the future dignity and comfort of my Royal Consort, in the event of her surviving me, and for the supplies which you have granted for the service of the present year. You may be assured of my anxious care to have them administered with the strictest attention to a wellconsidered economy. The state of Europe has...
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | The Metropolitan, Volume 2 English literary periodicals |
| Editora | James Cochrane and Company, 1831 |
| Original de | Universidade de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 28 Fev 2007 |
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