The Edinburgh Review, Volume 50;Volume 83A. and C. Black, 1846 |
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... tion of the First Seceding Congregations ; and the Acts of the General Assembly of Leipzig . Edited by Henry Smith , Esq . With a Recommendatory Preface , by the Rev. W. Goode , M.A. , F.S.A. 7. A German Catholic's Farewell to Rome : a ...
... tion of the First Seceding Congregations ; and the Acts of the General Assembly of Leipzig . Edited by Henry Smith , Esq . With a Recommendatory Preface , by the Rev. W. Goode , M.A. , F.S.A. 7. A German Catholic's Farewell to Rome : a ...
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... tion had been brought , sent for the Plaintiff and his Attorney , and , by direct menaces , compelled them to stay their actions , and so far submit to the imputations which the evidence had VOL . LXXXIII . NO . CLXVII . A brought upon ...
... tion had been brought , sent for the Plaintiff and his Attorney , and , by direct menaces , compelled them to stay their actions , and so far submit to the imputations which the evidence had VOL . LXXXIII . NO . CLXVII . A brought upon ...
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... tion which had the upper hand - the prince whose success in the field had defeated his competitors , the powerful chief whose authority pre- vailed at the moment . The history of their proceedings is a succession of contrary decisions ...
... tion which had the upper hand - the prince whose success in the field had defeated his competitors , the powerful chief whose authority pre- vailed at the moment . The history of their proceedings is a succession of contrary decisions ...
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... tion of the laws , in the days of King William IV . and Queen Victoria . Rulers and subjects may draw lessons of public morality and expediency from these tumultuous periods ; but they furnish no precedents that can be applied when the ...
... tion of the laws , in the days of King William IV . and Queen Victoria . Rulers and subjects may draw lessons of public morality and expediency from these tumultuous periods ; but they furnish no precedents that can be applied when the ...
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... tion ; and thus accusation and conviction would be identical , and every man would be bound to submit to judgment against himself . When the Earl of Danby , in 1679 , was impeached by the Commons before the Lords for High Crimes and ...
... tion ; and thus accusation and conviction would be identical , and every man would be bound to submit to judgment against himself . When the Earl of Danby , in 1679 , was impeached by the Commons before the Lords for High Crimes and ...
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Página 335 - The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver, But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river; Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurled — Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran.
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Página 178 - ... houses on the same account), we have, by a field return this day made, no less than two thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight men now in camp unfit for duty because they are barefoot and otherwise naked.
Página 75 - To abolish a status which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life ; especially now when their passage to the West Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be to " shut the gates...
Página 328 - The coot was swimming in the reedy pond, Beside the water-hen, so soon affrighted ; And in the weedy moat the heron, fond Of solitude, alighted. The moping heron, motionless and stiff, That on a stone, as silently and stilly, Stood, an apparent sentinel, as if To guard the water-lily.
Página 332 - A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller : he follows it at all adventures ; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.
Página 469 - On the British side of the line, with the exception of a few favoured spots, where some approach to American prosperity is apparent, all seems waste and desolate.
Página 435 - Keep always to the point, or with an eye upon it, and instead of saying things to make people stare and wonder, say what will withhold them hereafter from wondering and staring. This is philosophy; to make remote things tangible, common things extensively useful, useful things extensively common, and to leave the least necessary for the last.
Página 470 - ... miles. There, on the side of both the Canadas, and also of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, a widely scattered population, poor, and apparently unenterprising, though hardy and industrious, separated from each other by tracts of intervening forest, without towns and markets, almost without roads, living in mean houses, drawing little more than a rude subsistence from ill-cultivated land, and seemingly incapable of improving their condition, present the most instructive contrast to their enterprising...