The Quarterly Review, Band 104John Murray, 1858 |
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... government , exercised very little influence over his active life . It is clear that not that preference , but his Puritanism , made him first join the Parliamentary cause ; and , afterwards , when a despotism was in the ascendant of ...
... government , exercised very little influence over his active life . It is clear that not that preference , but his Puritanism , made him first join the Parliamentary cause ; and , afterwards , when a despotism was in the ascendant of ...
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... government was not thought to have treated altogether well ; but , still , he was the government's choice , and he was a land - soldier ; ' and nothing but a noble nature and much earnest work could ever have made him the venerated ...
... government was not thought to have treated altogether well ; but , still , he was the government's choice , and he was a land - soldier ; ' and nothing but a noble nature and much earnest work could ever have made him the venerated ...
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... government did a tyrant resemble , He made England great and his enemies tremble . ' * And , in September , 1652 , we find a pamphleteer telling us , of what was then the finest ship in the British Navy- " The Royal Sovereign is admiral ...
... government did a tyrant resemble , He made England great and his enemies tremble . ' * And , in September , 1652 , we find a pamphleteer telling us , of what was then the finest ship in the British Navy- " The Royal Sovereign is admiral ...
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... government - to dispense with his naval genius , name , and experience . The Catholic powers were in ominous combination against England , and the successes recently achieved in the Mediterranean required constant watching . Blake did ...
... government - to dispense with his naval genius , name , and experience . The Catholic powers were in ominous combination against England , and the successes recently achieved in the Mediterranean required constant watching . Blake did ...
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... government a blunder , and litera- ture foolishness . All existing histories , having for the most part been written by ecclesiastics or persons engaged in politics or letters , partake of the necessary ignorance of their writers and ...
... government a blunder , and litera- ture foolishness . All existing histories , having for the most part been written by ecclesiastics or persons engaged in politics or letters , partake of the necessary ignorance of their writers and ...
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Seite 164 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry , but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious.
Seite 171 - A thousand men, that fishes gnaw'd upon ; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea, Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As...
Seite 341 - The third way is that of imitation, where the translator (if now he has not lost that name) assumes the liberty, not only to vary from the words and sense, but to forsake them both as he sees occasion; and taking only some general hints from the original, to run division on the groundwork, as he pleases.
Seite 106 - MAJESTY'S TREASURY. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS. ON the 26th of January 1857, the Master of the Rolls submitted to the Treasury a proposal for the publication of materials for the History of this Country from the Invasion of the Romans to the Reign of Henry VIII.
Seite 482 - If once they hear that voice, their liveliest pledge Of hope in fears and dangers, heard so oft In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle when it raged, in all assaults Their surest signal, they will soon resume New courage and revive, though now they lie Grovelling and prostrate on yon lake of fire, 280 As we erewhile, astounded and amazed, No wonder, fallen such a pernicious height.
Seite 342 - Examine how your humour is inclin'd, And which the ruling passion of your mind; Then seek a poet who your way does bend, And choose an author as you choose a friend.
Seite 40 - Are the actions of / men, and therefore of societies, governed, by, fixed laws, or are they the result either of chance or of supernatural interference ? The discussion of these alternatives will suggest some speculations of considerable interest.
Seite 44 - If plagues or earthquakes break not Heav'n's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline ? Who knows but he, whose hand the light'ning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms; Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind, Or turns young Ammon loose to scourge mankind?
Seite 341 - Fortune, that with malicious joy Does Man, her slave, oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleased to bless; Still various and unconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind, But when she dances in the wind, And shakes the wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away.
Seite 63 - CEdipus, and will upon a reasonable truce, find a way to loose those bonds wherewith the subtleties of error have enchained our more flexible and tender judgments.