Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best Articles in that Journal, from Its Commencement to the Present Time, Volúmenes3-4Baudry's European Library, 1835 |
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... supposed too ugly to be lost , has , within the last twenty years , been republished by Dr. Dibdin ; to which may be added , a Chronicle by Cooper , afterwards a bishop , and one or two more mentioned in Nicolson's Historical Library ...
... supposed too ugly to be lost , has , within the last twenty years , been republished by Dr. Dibdin ; to which may be added , a Chronicle by Cooper , afterwards a bishop , and one or two more mentioned in Nicolson's Historical Library ...
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... supposed to impede the progress of genius , had been removed ; and a new era , replete with hope and promise , was unfolding itself to those who dared boldly to aspire . Every avenue was open ; and this age offered one facility more ...
... supposed to impede the progress of genius , had been removed ; and a new era , replete with hope and promise , was unfolding itself to those who dared boldly to aspire . Every avenue was open ; and this age offered one facility more ...
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... supposed fixed ; translation of our so- lar system , through infinite space , towards a spot in the heavens occupied by the constellation Hercules , as confirmed by forty - four observations out of fifty - six ; his discoveries upon ...
... supposed fixed ; translation of our so- lar system , through infinite space , towards a spot in the heavens occupied by the constellation Hercules , as confirmed by forty - four observations out of fifty - six ; his discoveries upon ...
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... supposed to have been written by that most jovial of bishops , Venantius Fortunatus . * The sparkling conceits of Gregory's style are much more endurable in verse than in prose ; and his similes are sometimes ingenious , if not ...
... supposed to have been written by that most jovial of bishops , Venantius Fortunatus . * The sparkling conceits of Gregory's style are much more endurable in verse than in prose ; and his similes are sometimes ingenious , if not ...
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... supposed his aerial visitor to be , might not have done as well - we are unable to conceive . Sir Thomas tells Mr. Southey nothing about future events , and indeed absolutely disclaims the gift of prescience . He has learned to talk ...
... supposed his aerial visitor to be , might not have done as well - we are unable to conceive . Sir Thomas tells Mr. Southey nothing about future events , and indeed absolutely disclaims the gift of prescience . He has learned to talk ...
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Página 416 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Página 338 - I am conscious of myself as the perceiving subject, and of an external reality as the object perceived ; and I am conscious of both existences in the same indivisible moment of intuition.
Página 105 - The thinking minds of all nations call for change. There is a deep-lying struggle in the whole fabric of society ; a boundless grinding collision of the New with the Old.
Página 374 - As long as boys and girls run about in the dirt, and trundle hoops together, they are both precisely alike. If you catch up one-half of these creatures, and train them to a particular set of actions and opinions, and the other half to a perfectly opposite set, of course their understandings will differ as one or the other sort of occupations has called this or that talent into action.
Página 147 - Parliament," says Mr. Hallam, " it may be said, I think, with not greater severity than truth, that scarce two or three public acts of justice, humanity, or generosity, and very few of political wisdom or courage, are recorded of them, from their quarrel with the King, to their expulsion by Cromwell.
Página 378 - ... varieties of that celebrated language. Then women have, of course, all ignorant men for enemies to their instruction, who being bound (as they think), in point of sex, to know more, are not well pleased, in point of fact, to know less. But among men of sense and liberal politeness, a woman who has successfully cultivated her mind, without diminishing the gentleness and propriety of her manners, is always sure to meet with a respect and attention bordering upon enthusiasm.
Página 93 - Were we required to characterise this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery in every outward and inward sense of that word; the age which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, teaches and practises the great art of adapting means to ends.
Página 192 - ... on the mountains in summer, and the tales and the sports that amuse the little groups that are frozen into their vast and trackless valleys in the winter. Add to all this, the traces of vast and obscure antiquity that are impressed on the language and the habits of the people, and on the cliffs, and caves, and gulfy torrents of the land ; and the solemn and touching reflection, perpetually recurring, of the weakness and insignificance of perishable man, whose generations thus pass away into oblivion,...
Página 293 - Few books have contributed more to rectify prejudice, to undermine established errors, to diffuse a just mode of thinking, to excite a fearless spirit of inquiry, and yet to contain it within the boundaries which Nature has prescribed to the human understanding.
Página 105 - He, who has been born, has been a First Man ;' has had lying before his young eyes, and as yet unhardened into scientific shapes, a world as plastic, infinite, divine, as lay before the eyes of Adam himself. If Mechanism, like some glass bell, encircles and imprisons us ; if the soul looks forth on a fair heavenly country which it cannot reach, and pines, and in its scanty atmosphere is ready to perish, — yet the bell is but of glass ; 'one bold stroke to break the bell in pieces, and thou art...