The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 48A. Constable, 1828 |
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... important ; so im- portant , as alone to justify the utmost severity , even though it were certain that his fate ... importance . The difference in tale on the one side far more than makes up for the difference .1828 . 117 Hallam's ...
... important ; so im- portant , as alone to justify the utmost severity , even though it were certain that his fate ... importance . The difference in tale on the one side far more than makes up for the difference .1828 . 117 Hallam's ...
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... important circumstance in the whole case . Ire- land was at that moment in rebellion ; and a great expedition would obviously be necessary to reduce that kingdom to obedi- ence . The Houses had therefore to consider , not an abstract ...
... important circumstance in the whole case . Ire- land was at that moment in rebellion ; and a great expedition would obviously be necessary to reduce that kingdom to obedi- ence . The Houses had therefore to consider , not an abstract ...
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... important crisis of his fate , sauntering through his haram , yawning and talking nonsense over a despatch , or beslobbering his brother and his courtiers in a fit of maudlin affection , * without a re- spectful and tender remembrance ...
... important crisis of his fate , sauntering through his haram , yawning and talking nonsense over a despatch , or beslobbering his brother and his courtiers in a fit of maudlin affection , * without a re- spectful and tender remembrance ...
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... important particular , Clarendon showed as little regard to the honour of his country as he had shown to that of his fa- mily . He accepted a subsidy from France for the relief of Por- tugal : But this method of obtaining money was ...
... important particular , Clarendon showed as little regard to the honour of his country as he had shown to that of his fa- mily . He accepted a subsidy from France for the relief of Por- tugal : But this method of obtaining money was ...
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... important , had resigned their livings by thousands . The churchmen , at the time of the Revolution , justified their conduct by all those profligate sophisms which are called jesuiti- cal , and which are commonly reckoned among the ...
... important , had resigned their livings by thousands . The churchmen , at the time of the Revolution , justified their conduct by all those profligate sophisms which are called jesuiti- cal , and which are commonly reckoned among the ...
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Página 193 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Página 15 - London's Encyclopaedia of Agriculture: comprising the Laying-out, Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and the Cultivation and Economy of the Productions of Agriculture. With 1,100 Woodcuts. 8vo. 31s. 6d. London's Encyclopaedia of Gardening : comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape Gardening.
Página 282 - Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the /Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident ; or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod ? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities : a God that made all things, man's immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or wo beyond death and the grave.
Página 289 - A wish (I mind its power), A wish, that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast, — That I, for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan or book could make, Or sing a sang at least.
Página 9 - The breeze had been fresh all day, with more sea than usual, and they had made great progress. At sunset they had stood again to the west, and were ploughing the waves at a rapid rate, the Pinta keeping the lead, from her superior sailing. The greatest animation prevailed throughout the ships ; not an eye was closed that night. As the evening darkened, Columbus took his station on the top of the castle or cabin on the high poop of his vessel.
Página 178 - What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarcely be folly in that of a great kingdom.
Página 61 - LANZI'S History of Painting In Italy, from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the i8th Century.
Página 297 - ... their time and country, he expressed himself with perfect firmness, but without the least intrusive forwardness ; and when he differed in opinion, he did not hesitate to express it firmly, yet at the same time with modesty. I do not remember any part of his conversation distinctly enough to be quoted ; nor did I ever see him again, except in the street, where he did not recognise me, as I could not expect he should. He was much caressed in Edinburgh : but (considering what literary emoluments...
Página 297 - I never saw a man in company with his superiors in station or information more perfectly free from either the reality or the affectation of embarrassment. I was told, but did not observe it, that his address to females was extremely deferential, and always with a turn either to the pathetic or humorous, which engaged their attention particularly. I have heard the late Duchess of Gordon remark this. — I do not know anything I can add to these recollections of forty years since...
Página 282 - I have some favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the hare-bell, the fox-glove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with particular delight.