the edinburgh review, of critical journal1850 |
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... taken place , only less than revolution ; but our national Genius yet stands rebuked before the one gaunt phantom which meets it on every path of triumph . A few years ago pauperism threatened to swallow up all property : the Poor - law ...
... taken place , only less than revolution ; but our national Genius yet stands rebuked before the one gaunt phantom which meets it on every path of triumph . A few years ago pauperism threatened to swallow up all property : the Poor - law ...
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... taken place . The experiment of a potato culture , though once more recklessly tried on a scale deplored by all in- telligent persons , has been unsuccessful : nor will the potato henceforth be relied on ; except by such as are ...
... taken place . The experiment of a potato culture , though once more recklessly tried on a scale deplored by all in- telligent persons , has been unsuccessful : nor will the potato henceforth be relied on ; except by such as are ...
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... taken for aiding and promoting the Emigration of those classes , on some organised system , which shall enable such as are willing ' to leave Ireland and are qualified to earn a livelihood in other countries , to remove thither cheaply ...
... taken for aiding and promoting the Emigration of those classes , on some organised system , which shall enable such as are willing ' to leave Ireland and are qualified to earn a livelihood in other countries , to remove thither cheaply ...
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... taken place , in colonies , large portions of which were actually at the moment in want of labour . Such congestions , however , are removed in the natural course of things ; and the temporary inconvenience is comparatively slight , in ...
... taken place , in colonies , large portions of which were actually at the moment in want of labour . Such congestions , however , are removed in the natural course of things ; and the temporary inconvenience is comparatively slight , in ...
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... taken in selecting the different points all round the coast of Australia at which the emigrants are to be landed . As for instance , take the case of New South Wales ; they should not be , as hitherto they have been , all landed at ...
... taken in selecting the different points all round the coast of Australia at which the emigrants are to be landed . As for instance , take the case of New South Wales ; they should not be , as hitherto they have been , all landed at ...
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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.