the edinburgh review, of critical journal1850 |
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... relations with which permanent societies cannot dispense , and for which a provision can be made only by systematic Emigration . Grievous and extended as are the evils to which we have alluded , it is in Ireland that the pressure of ...
... relations with which permanent societies cannot dispense , and for which a provision can be made only by systematic Emigration . Grievous and extended as are the evils to which we have alluded , it is in Ireland that the pressure of ...
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... relations produced by such a system , it superseded , to a large extent , the primal law of labour , as the cultivation of the bread - fruit tree on a large scale would yet more fatally do , —and established no pro- portion between ...
... relations produced by such a system , it superseded , to a large extent , the primal law of labour , as the cultivation of the bread - fruit tree on a large scale would yet more fatally do , —and established no pro- portion between ...
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... relations were needful on no other account , they would be necessary to balance the peculiar temptations to which colonial life is exposed , — lawless- ness , selfishness , and a practical materialism . Such evils , we may rely on it ...
... relations were needful on no other account , they would be necessary to balance the peculiar temptations to which colonial life is exposed , — lawless- ness , selfishness , and a practical materialism . Such evils , we may rely on it ...
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... relations , the population of our colonies might safely advance at a far more rapid rate than it has done hitherto , is as certain , as that we can propagate a plant more rapidly by laying its branches along the ground and making them ...
... relations , the population of our colonies might safely advance at a far more rapid rate than it has done hitherto , is as certain , as that we can propagate a plant more rapidly by laying its branches along the ground and making them ...
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... relations between the two countries , will present a striking con- trast . On the pauperism or prosperity of Ireland depends , also , the momentous question , whether England is to find in her a perpetual claimant on her bounty , or a ...
... relations between the two countries , will present a striking con- trast . On the pauperism or prosperity of Ireland depends , also , the momentous question , whether England is to find in her a perpetual claimant on her bounty , or a ...
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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.