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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... Taste , and much Original Matter , by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder , Bart . Edinburgh and London . 1842 - 189 VII . - 1 . Zoological Sketches , made for the Zoological Society of London , from Animals in their Vivarium in the Regent's Park ...
... Taste , and much Original Matter , by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder , Bart . Edinburgh and London . 1842 - 189 VII . - 1 . Zoological Sketches , made for the Zoological Society of London , from Animals in their Vivarium in the Regent's Park ...
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... taste for an enjoyment very profitable in its healthy condition , the ancients owed a class of table - talkers whom it would be improper to pass over , more particularly as they are represented in considerable force in modern Europe ...
... taste for an enjoyment very profitable in its healthy condition , the ancients owed a class of table - talkers whom it would be improper to pass over , more particularly as they are represented in considerable force in modern Europe ...
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... taste of the ancients in colloquial matters : - ' Guests should be neither loqua- cious nor silent ; because eloquence is for the forum , and silence for the bed - chamber . ' And he goes on to say that ' conversation at such times ...
... taste of the ancients in colloquial matters : - ' Guests should be neither loqua- cious nor silent ; because eloquence is for the forum , and silence for the bed - chamber . ' And he goes on to say that ' conversation at such times ...
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... taste was fine and his knowledge great . His own 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 ...
... taste was fine and his knowledge great . His own 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 ...
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... all the town talks on . ' She never probably ventured to repeat the experiment , and in this case no one can do otherwise than sympathise with the sensitiveness 6 sensitiveness of Elizabeth , and wonder at the taste of 16 Table - Talk .
... all the town talks on . ' She never probably ventured to repeat the experiment , and in this case no one can do otherwise than sympathise with the sensitiveness 6 sensitiveness of Elizabeth , and wonder at the taste of 16 Table - Talk .
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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.