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... period of English literature that of the Reformation , 35 ; contrast between it and the productive epoch of our literature , ib .; spirit of nationality expressed , 36 ; reign of Henry VIII . , ib .; influence of the Reformation on our ...
... period of English literature that of the Reformation , 35 ; contrast between it and the productive epoch of our literature , ib .; spirit of nationality expressed , 36 ; reign of Henry VIII . , ib .; influence of the Reformation on our ...
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... period given by Professor Baynes , 258,259 ; candidature for the Moral Philosophy Chair in Edinburgh , 259 ; election to that of Civil History , ib .; his marriage , and its influence on his character and subsequent carcer , 259,260 ...
... period given by Professor Baynes , 258,259 ; candidature for the Moral Philosophy Chair in Edinburgh , 259 ; election to that of Civil History , ib .; his marriage , and its influence on his character and subsequent carcer , 259,260 ...
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... period of the cer- emony , and on it the new monarch was sol- emnly sworn in . This volume , which was known as the Texte du Sacre , was as remark- able for the splendour of its exterior as for the incomprehensibility of its contents ...
... period of the cer- emony , and on it the new monarch was sol- emnly sworn in . This volume , which was known as the Texte du Sacre , was as remark- able for the splendour of its exterior as for the incomprehensibility of its contents ...
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... period at which he returns is thus described : - " The new order of things met with a bad re- ception ; the old had lost all influence . Igno- rance and dishonesty went hand in hand to- gether . Shaken to its very foundations , the ...
... period at which he returns is thus described : - " The new order of things met with a bad re- ception ; the old had lost all influence . Igno- rance and dishonesty went hand in hand to- gether . Shaken to its very foundations , the ...
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... period of English litera- ture . It is the period in which the latent genius of the nation was manifested for the first time in all its freshness , strength , and exuberant vitality . But the next con- siderable epoch , that of the ...
... period of English litera- ture . It is the period in which the latent genius of the nation was manifested for the first time in all its freshness , strength , and exuberant vitality . But the next con- siderable epoch , that of the ...
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Seite 36 - My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery. But I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and goodwill of my subjects...
Seite 48 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Seite 37 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Seite 50 - But what I have most at Heart is, that some Method should be thought on for ascertaining and fixing our Language for ever, after such Alterations are made in it as shall be thought requisite.
Seite 251 - Memoir of Sir William Hamilton, Bart., Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. By Professor VEITCH of the University of Glasgow. 8vo, with Portrait, 18s.
Seite 84 - Company, and their successors, the sole trade and commerce of all those seas, straits, bays, rivers, lakes, creeks and sounds, in whatsoever latitude they shall be, that lie within the entrance of the straits commonly called Hudson's Straits, together with all the lands and territories upon the countries, coasts, and confines of the seas, bays, lakes, rivers, creeks, and sounds aforesaid, that are not already actually possessed by or granted to any of our subjects, or possessed by the subjects of...
Seite 41 - ... who corrupt our English idiom, by mixing it too much with French : That is a sophistication of language, not an improvement of it ; a turning English into French, rather than a refining of English by French. We meet daily with those fops, who value themselves on their travelling, and pretend they cannot express their meaning in English, because they would put off* to us some French phrase of the last edition ; without considering, that, for aught they know, we have a better of our own.
Seite 63 - The memory of the dead passes into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words.
Seite 217 - Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness ; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends...
Seite 49 - Yet this sentiment is weakened by the name of an instrument used by butchers and cooks in the meanest employments ; we do not immediately conceive that any crime of importance is to be committed with a knife ; or who does not, at last, from the long habit of connecting a knife with sordid offices, feel aversion rather than terror?