The Quarterly Review, Band 98William 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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... conversation . It seems to be the Doctor's destiny to deal with neglected sub- jects . He has written a biography of George Buchanan , whose face , we fear , the public does not even recognise on the cover of his country's famous ...
... conversation . It seems to be the Doctor's destiny to deal with neglected sub- jects . He has written a biography of George Buchanan , whose face , we fear , the public does not even recognise on the cover of his country's famous ...
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... conversation the same superior importance which it gave to their oratory . A modern philosopher lives like a hermit , and publishes in quarto ; the ancient one carried his philosophy about with him and propagated it in the market ...
... conversation the same superior importance which it gave to their oratory . A modern philosopher lives like a hermit , and publishes in quarto ; the ancient one carried his philosophy about with him and propagated it in the market ...
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... conversation , it is not wonderful that they should have left books which may justly be included under the head of Table - Talk . At the head of these must be placed the Memorabilia ' of Socrates by Xenophon , which , indeed , the ...
... conversation , it is not wonderful that they should have left books which may justly be included under the head of Table - Talk . At the head of these must be placed the Memorabilia ' of Socrates by Xenophon , which , indeed , the ...
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... conversation at such times should not be about anxious nor difficult affairs , but pleasant , attractive , and useful . In these old store - houses we shall find more than one bon - mot , which now adorns the brazen front of the ...
... conversation at such times should not be about anxious nor difficult affairs , but pleasant , attractive , and useful . In these old store - houses we shall find more than one bon - mot , which now adorns the brazen front of the ...
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... conversation must have been exquisite , and some of his sallies on public occa- sions show us how dexterous he must have been in repartee . The sayings of one great man never come to us with such force as when they are illuminated by ...
... conversation must have been exquisite , and some of his sallies on public occa- sions show us how dexterous he must have been in repartee . The sayings of one great man never come to us with such force as when they are illuminated by ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.