The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 165A. Constable, 1887 |
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... army of books , and the power is increased tenfold . It may be said not merely to guide the mind of the nation , but to sway the whole domain of modern thought . The hopes , the interests , the progress , the destiny of the people more ...
... army of books , and the power is increased tenfold . It may be said not merely to guide the mind of the nation , but to sway the whole domain of modern thought . The hopes , the interests , the progress , the destiny of the people more ...
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... army of the children of the poor are sent on their way to take part in the great battle of life , with false views , false impressions , and foul aims . The pictures of men and women to which they have been introduced are unreal and ...
... army of the children of the poor are sent on their way to take part in the great battle of life , with false views , false impressions , and foul aims . The pictures of men and women to which they have been introduced are unreal and ...
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... during the minority of David II . , and to his rashness in exposing his army to the ' fatal hail - shower ' of English arrows was imputed a defeat which robbed Scotland of the flower of her nobility , 124 Jan. The House of Douglas .
... during the minority of David II . , and to his rashness in exposing his army to the ' fatal hail - shower ' of English arrows was imputed a defeat which robbed Scotland of the flower of her nobility , 124 Jan. The House of Douglas .
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... army , and prepared for battle in the appointed spot . His remaining there was an act of pure chivalry . There was nothing to prevent his retiring safely to Scotland with his prey . He , however , took every precaution to secure victory ...
... army , and prepared for battle in the appointed spot . His remaining there was an act of pure chivalry . There was nothing to prevent his retiring safely to Scotland with his prey . He , however , took every precaution to secure victory ...
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... army , and he himself , though clad in armour which had cost three years ' labour to fashion , was wounded in five places , including the loss of an While the prisoner of Hotspur , he concerted with him the revolt crushed by Henry IV ...
... army , and he himself , though clad in armour which had cost three years ' labour to fashion , was wounded in five places , including the loss of an While the prisoner of Hotspur , he concerted with him the revolt crushed by Henry IV ...
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Seite 118 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.
Seite 97 - But whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth good: and the object of his hate and aversion, evil; and of his contempt, vile and inconsiderable.
Seite 530 - It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of which •would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse...
Seite 524 - He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? You, Mr.
Seite 101 - ... how absolutely universal is the extent and at the same time how completely subordinate the significance, of the mission which mechanism has to fulfil in the structure of the world.
Seite 248 - It was an age of valetudinarians, in many instances of imaginary ones ; but below its various crazes concerning health and disease, largely multiplied a few years after the time of which I am speaking by the miseries of a great pestilence, lay a valuable, because partly practicable, belief that all the maladies of the soul might be reached through the subtle gateways of the body.
Seite 363 - I have only zeal and good intentions to bring to this work ; I can have no merit in it, that must all belong to Mr Sadler. It seems no one else will undertake it, so I will ; and, without cant or hypocrisy, which I hate, I assure you I dare not refuse the request you have so earnestly pressed. I believe it is my duty to God and to the poor, and I trust He will support me. Talk of trouble! what do we come to parliament for?
Seite 522 - God's respect to the creature's good, and his respect to himself, is not a divided respect; but both are united in one, as the happiness of the creature aimed at, is happiness in union with himself.
Seite 139 - Douglas blood, With mitre sheen, and rocquet white. Yet show'd his meek and thoughtful eye But little pride of prelacy ; More pleased that, in a barbarous age, He gave rude Scotland Virgil's page, Than that beneath his rule he held The bishopric of fair Dunkeld.
Seite 92 - He was 40 yeares old before he looked on Geometry ; which happened accidentally. Being in a Gentleman's Library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and 'twas the 47 El. libri i. He read the Proposition. By G — , sayd he (he would now and then sweare an emphaticall Oath by way of emphasis) this is impossible...