Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen3Sheldon and Company, 1862 |
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... ( Edinburgh Re- view , January 1834. ) . PAGE 1 37 · 75 143 · 194 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH . ( Edinburgh Review , July 1835. ) 251 LORD BACON . ( Edinburgh Review , July 1837. ) • • .336 ESSAYS . BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES.1 ( Edinburgh Review ,
... ( Edinburgh Re- view , January 1834. ) . PAGE 1 37 · 75 143 · 194 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH . ( Edinburgh Review , July 1835. ) 251 LORD BACON . ( Edinburgh Review , July 1837. ) • • .336 ESSAYS . BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES.1 ( Edinburgh Review ,
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... James the First , a majority of the population of England were Catholics . This is pure assertion ; and is not only unsupported by evidence , but , we think , completely disproved by the strongest evidence . Dr. Lingard is of opinion ...
... James the First , a majority of the population of England were Catholics . This is pure assertion ; and is not only unsupported by evidence , but , we think , completely disproved by the strongest evidence . Dr. Lingard is of opinion ...
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... James the First . That which is , as we have said , the great stain on the character of Burleigh is also the great stain on the character of Elizabeth . Being herself an Adiaphorist , having no scruple about conforming to the Romish ...
... James the First . That which is , as we have said , the great stain on the character of Burleigh is also the great stain on the character of Elizabeth . Being herself an Adiaphorist , having no scruple about conforming to the Romish ...
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... James the First and Charles the First were less oppressed than the French under Louis the Fifteenth and Louis the Sixteenth . The English were less op- pressed after the Restoration than before the great Re- bellion . And America under ...
... James the First and Charles the First were less oppressed than the French under Louis the Fifteenth and Louis the Sixteenth . The English were less op- pressed after the Restoration than before the great Re- bellion . And America under ...
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... James the First would have called king - craft , - of all those arts which most advantageously display the merits of a prince , and most completely hide his defects . Though his internal administration was bad , though the military ...
... James the First would have called king - craft , - of all those arts which most advantageously display the merits of a prince , and most completely hide his defects . Though his internal administration was bad , though the military ...
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Página 294 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página 490 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 482 - Round he surveys, and well might, where he stood So high above the circling canopy Of night's extended shade, from eastern point Of Libra to the fleecy star that bears Andromeda far off Atlantic seas. Beyond the horizon...
Página 490 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Página 490 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 417 - it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.
Página 317 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
Página 82 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...
Página 370 - The prediction was accomplished. Essex returned in disgrace. Bacon attempted to mediate between his friend and the Queen; and, we believe, honestly employed all his address for that purpose. But the task which he had undertaken was too difficult, delicate, and perilous, even for so wai-y and dexterous an agent.
Página 493 - ... a land of promise, a land flowing with milk and honey. While the multitude below saw only the flat sterile desert in which they had so long wandered, bounded on every side by a near horizon, or diversified only by some deceitful mirage, he was gazing from a far higher stand on a far lovelier country, following with his eye the long course of fertilising rivers, through ample pastures, and under the bridges of great capitals, measuring the distances of marts and havens, and portioning out all...