The Quarterly Review, Volume 36William 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, 1827 |
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... considerable curiosity , as well as of ex- treme importance , it is necessary that it should be described some- what in detail ; and we shall do so in , we presume , the most unexceptionable manner , by quoting a passage from a Memoir ...
... considerable curiosity , as well as of ex- treme importance , it is necessary that it should be described some- what in detail ; and we shall do so in , we presume , the most unexceptionable manner , by quoting a passage from a Memoir ...
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... considerable severity , for employing the services of such men ; and they have met the charge , not by a direct denial , but by an in- ference that men who render themselves active in the circulation of the Bible cannot hold the ...
... considerable severity , for employing the services of such men ; and they have met the charge , not by a direct denial , but by an in- ference that men who render themselves active in the circulation of the Bible cannot hold the ...
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... considerable talent has been trying of late to illus- trate it throughout , and the results are deplorable ; we doubt if they would have been much better had Martin been a Michael Angelo . The ' Divina Commedia ' teems with subjects ...
... considerable talent has been trying of late to illus- trate it throughout , and the results are deplorable ; we doubt if they would have been much better had Martin been a Michael Angelo . The ' Divina Commedia ' teems with subjects ...
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... considerably in my ap- proaches to the objects of my adoration . ' His father sent him , in spite of these heroic aspirations , to Tri- nity College , Dublin , where he soon received a new disgust from being refused a premium , to which ...
... considerably in my ap- proaches to the objects of my adoration . ' His father sent him , in spite of these heroic aspirations , to Tri- nity College , Dublin , where he soon received a new disgust from being refused a premium , to which ...
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... considerably farther .'- vol . i . p . 30 . This pamphlet , though written by a man who disapproved of the system , and still more of the principles and motives of the Irish whigs , was signed an independent Irish whig ; ' and in the ...
... considerably farther .'- vol . i . p . 30 . This pamphlet , though written by a man who disapproved of the system , and still more of the principles and motives of the Irish whigs , was signed an independent Irish whig ; ' and in the ...
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Página 479 - And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark : and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged...
Página 481 - To conclude therefore: Let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's Word, or in the book of God's Works — Divinity or Philosophy; — but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both.
Página 527 - The discretion of a judge is the law of tyrants : it is always unknown ; it is different in different men ; it is casual, and depends upon constitution, temper, and passion. In the best, it is oftentimes caprice ; in the worst it is every vice, folly, and passion, to which human nature is liable.'*- — Lord Camden.
Página 287 - I trust the house of lords will this day feel, that the hour is come, for which the wisdom of our ancestors established that respectable corps in the state, to prevent either the crown or the commons from encroaching on the rights of each other. Indeed, should not the lords stand boldly forth, this constitution must soon be changed ; for, if the two only remaining privileges of the crown are infringed, that of negativing bills which have passed both houses of parliament, and that of naming the ministers...
Página 208 - Stuart is come over to claim the crown of his ancestors, to win it, or to perish in the attempt: Lochiel, who, my father has often told me, was our firmest friend, may stay at home, and learn from the newspapers the fate of his prince.
Página 155 - That an humble address be presented to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent to...
Página 176 - In short," as our friend expressed himself, " the dragoons and Highlanders divided the honours of the day, and on that occasion, at least, the race was to the swift, and the battle to the strong.
Página 33 - ... truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, Searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation...
Página 243 - If the authority to which he is subject resides in the body corporate, the college, or university, of which he himself is a member, and in which the greater part of the other members are, like himself, persons who either are, or ought to be teachers ; they are likely to make a common cause, to be all very indulgent to one another, and every man to consent that his neighbour may neglect his duty, provided he himself is allowed to neglect his own. In the university of Oxford, the greater part of the...
Página 139 - A committee having been appointed to inquire into the original standards of weights and measures in the kingdom of England, to consider the laws relating thereto, and to report their observations thereupon, together with their opinion of the most effectual means for ascertaining and enforcing uniform and certain standards of weights and measures...