the edinburgh review, of critical journal1850 |
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... carried , men ask , as in the story of Columbus's egg , where the difficulty lay ? Achievements in the political , like discoveries in the scientific world , are for the most part heralded by precursive signs ; and we have already had ...
... carried , men ask , as in the story of Columbus's egg , where the difficulty lay ? Achievements in the political , like discoveries in the scientific world , are for the most part heralded by precursive signs ; and we have already had ...
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... carried her dead child through the frozen woods , and night after night suspended his cradle of reeds upon the branches beneath which she slept , and nowhere could fix upon a spot in which to bury him ! Among barbarous tribes , nature ...
... carried her dead child through the frozen woods , and night after night suspended his cradle of reeds upon the branches beneath which she slept , and nowhere could fix upon a spot in which to bury him ! Among barbarous tribes , nature ...
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... carried on ; it could not be continued for any course of seasons . ' To the same effect is the evidence of Mr. Kincaid , who states that no farm ought to be less than 201. in its annual valuation . What is then to become of those who ...
... carried on ; it could not be continued for any course of seasons . ' To the same effect is the evidence of Mr. Kincaid , who states that no farm ought to be less than 201. in its annual valuation . What is then to become of those who ...
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... carried out by Mr. Hamilton was effectual in its character , and moderate in its 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 ...
... carried out by Mr. Hamilton was effectual in its character , and moderate in its 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 ...
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... carried on as a constant but always im- perfect work , as it actually is at present by the unassisted efforts of individuals ; and would have no reference to a colo- nization undertaken by the State at periods of special need , and so ...
... carried on as a constant but always im- perfect work , as it actually is at present by the unassisted efforts of individuals ; and would have no reference to a colo- nization undertaken by the State at periods of special need , and so ...
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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.