the edinburgh review, of critical journal1850 |
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... amount of the evil is itself one reason why it cannot thus alone be remedied . The prudential check , as recommended , supposes a high standard of life : while one effect of our large population is , that we sink to a low one . Among ...
... amount of the evil is itself one reason why it cannot thus alone be remedied . The prudential check , as recommended , supposes a high standard of life : while one effect of our large population is , that we sink to a low one . Among ...
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... requires three acres even of oats to produce as much human food as one acre of potatoes , a new creation of land to the amount of four millions of acres , VOL . XCI . NO . CLXXXIII . C would have been necessary , in order to support on.
... requires three acres even of oats to produce as much human food as one acre of potatoes , a new creation of land to the amount of four millions of acres , VOL . XCI . NO . CLXXXIII . C would have been necessary , in order to support on.
18 psl.
... amount of 157. per acre to invest in his land ; and the Irish pauper is the great obstacle to the introduction of additional capital . Let us , then , consider for a moment what we actually mean when we speak of the improvement of Irish ...
... amount of 157. per acre to invest in his land ; and the Irish pauper is the great obstacle to the introduction of additional capital . Let us , then , consider for a moment what we actually mean when we speak of the improvement of Irish ...
24 psl.
... amount , -because it was un- dertaken in time : and this consideration leads us to another and most important branch of the subject . Let it never be forgotten that a due reduction of numbers , in time , is the only means by which we ...
... amount , -because it was un- dertaken in time : and this consideration leads us to another and most important branch of the subject . Let it never be forgotten that a due reduction of numbers , in time , is the only means by which we ...
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... amount of exports from the district . The ' people have lately held meetings to raise stock for this pur- pose ; but , unaided , I fear there is little hope of success . They ' would be very willing to submit to a tax to gradually repay ...
... amount of exports from the district . The ' people have lately held meetings to raise stock for this pur- pose ; but , unaided , I fear there is little hope of success . They ' would be very willing to submit to a tax to gradually repay ...
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actual already amount appears authority become believe body called capital carried cause character Christian colonies common compared consequence considered constitution course direct doubt duty effect emigration England error established Europe existence fact feeling force France German give given Greek hand human important increase influence interest Ireland Italy king labour Lamartine land least less London Lord matter means measure ment mind mines moral nature necessary never object observations once operation opinion party passed perhaps period persons political population portion position practical present principle probably produce proportion question reason received regards relations representatives respect seems success supply taken things thought tion true truth whole
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532 psl. - ... all the symptoms which I have ever met with in history, previous to great changes and revolutions in Government, now exist, and daily increase in France.
366 psl. - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...
366 psl. - But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.
7 psl. - Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me...
422 psl. - We are what suns and winds and waters make us The mountains are our sponsors, and the rills Fashion and win their nursling with their smiles. But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties ; as the feet Of fabled faeries when the sun goes down Trip o'er the grass where wrestlers strove by day. Then Justice...
588 psl. - Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son : This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out — I die pronouncing it — Like to a tenement or pelting farm.
334 psl. - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce ; From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice...
370 psl. - But when wit is combined with sense and information, when it is softened by benevolence and restrained by strong principle, when it is in the hands of a man who can use it and despise it, who can be witty, and something much better than witty, who loves honour, justice, decency, good nature, morality, and religion ten thousand times better than wit, wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature.
167 psl. - ... of crimes, struggles, and woes, could conceive and bring forth a Messiah. The first woman was heaven-born: vast was the heart whence gushed the well-spring of the blood of nations; and grand the undegenerate head where rested the consort-crown of creation.
370 psl. - I have talked of the danger of wit; I do not mean by that to enter into common-place declamation against faculties because they are dangerous ; wit is dangerous, eloquence is dangerous, a talent for observation is dangerous, every thing is dangerous that has efficacy and vigour for its characteristics ; nothing is safe but mediocrity.