The Quarterly Review, Volumen98William 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, 1856 |
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... admit them already cashiered ; wherewith they were so surprised , crossed , and confused , as they would not suffer him to go on in his speech , but relinquished their demands , and made it their suit to be again called by the name of ...
... admit them already cashiered ; wherewith they were so surprised , crossed , and confused , as they would not suffer him to go on in his speech , but relinquished their demands , and made it their suit to be again called by the name of ...
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... admits us to his company with a letter of introduction . To the Table - Talk , more than to any other work , Europe owes the personal familiarity which it has with the Reformer , and nobody but a good man could have borne the test of ...
... admits us to his company with a letter of introduction . To the Table - Talk , more than to any other work , Europe owes the personal familiarity which it has with the Reformer , and nobody but a good man could have borne the test of ...
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... admit of question . At the time of its establishment , it was Mr. Baker's intention to induce his boys to emigrate after leaving the school ; but the great change which has of late years taken place in the relations between the demand ...
... admit of question . At the time of its establishment , it was Mr. Baker's intention to induce his boys to emigrate after leaving the school ; but the great change which has of late years taken place in the relations between the demand ...
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... admits that in his necessities he would sometimes depart from delicacy ; but in all these cases , adds the biographer , his friends were aware how his own feelings reprimanded him . No one can censure harshly a man who battled so ...
... admits that in his necessities he would sometimes depart from delicacy ; but in all these cases , adds the biographer , his friends were aware how his own feelings reprimanded him . No one can censure harshly a man who battled so ...
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... admit of no palliation , we may yet dwell with satisfaction upon his manly endurance , his brave self - reliance , his perpetual cheerfulness , his tender heart , and that instinctive benevolence which could not be surpassed by Allen ...
... admit of no palliation , we may yet dwell with satisfaction upon his manly endurance , his brave self - reliance , his perpetual cheerfulness , his tender heart , and that instinctive benevolence which could not be surpassed by Allen ...
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Página 26 - A Complete Collection Of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, According to the Most Polite Mode and Method Now Used At Court, and in the Best Companies of England.
Página 20 - Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing ; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman ; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.
Página 115 - Wilson; and throughout he shows himself well read in stage-coaches, country 'squires, inns, and inns of court. His reflections upon high people and low people, and misses and masters, are very good.
Página 167 - The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb. The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point.
Página 168 - On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.
Página 168 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Página 20 - That was excellently observed, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.
Página 101 - Leicestershire, have slowly risen to the dignity of a peerage ; the latter, the emperors of Germany and kings of Spain, have threatened the liberty of the old, and invaded the treasures of the new world. The successors of Charles the fifth may disdain their brethren of England ; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial, and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria.
Página 168 - I ask primary evidence that you are a man, and refuse this appeal from the man to his actions. I know that for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent. I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right.
Página 18 - He heth consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe, about which he hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, feight in his imagination.