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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... observation of Roche- foucauld , on the same branch of the question , will be a proper pendant : The reason why few persons are agreeable in con- versation is because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are ...
... observation of Roche- foucauld , on the same branch of the question , will be a proper pendant : The reason why few persons are agreeable in con- versation is because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are ...
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... observation on the pretended poverty of the friars ! The friars say they possess nothing : whose then are the lands they hold ? Not their superior's ; he hath vowed poverty as well as they . Whose then ? To answer this , ' twas decreed ...
... observation on the pretended poverty of the friars ! The friars say they possess nothing : whose then are the lands they hold ? Not their superior's ; he hath vowed poverty as well as they . Whose then ? To answer this , ' twas decreed ...
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... observations upon human nature , and pleasant anecdotes with which to exemplify his positions . ' We measure the ... observed , say I , when I read a passage an author where his opinion agrees with mine . When we differ , there I ...
... observations upon human nature , and pleasant anecdotes with which to exemplify his positions . ' We measure the ... observed , say I , when I read a passage an author where his opinion agrees with mine . When we differ , there I ...
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... observed few obvious subjects to have been so seldom , or at least so slightly , handled as this , and that few were so difficult to treat . He was in possession of the traditions of the age pre- ceding his own , and gives us the ...
... observed few obvious subjects to have been so seldom , or at least so slightly , handled as this , and that few were so difficult to treat . He was in possession of the traditions of the age pre- ceding his own , and gives us the ...
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... observations he has set down , we must confess that we have sadly degenerated since , and that our great - great - grand- mothers had a larger , richer , and livelier repository than is to be met with now . Many of the retorts , apart ...
... observations he has set down , we must confess that we have sadly degenerated since , and that our great - great - grand- mothers had a larger , richer , and livelier repository than is to be met with now . Many of the retorts , apart ...
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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.