The Edinburgh Review, Band 105A. and C. Black, 1857 |
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... Chinese Interpreter in Her Majesty's Civil Service . 8vo . , with Maps . 1856 . X. - 2. Papers relating to the ... China . Pre- sented to the House of Lords in pursuance of their Address of February 12th , 1857 , • Hansard's ...
... Chinese Interpreter in Her Majesty's Civil Service . 8vo . , with Maps . 1856 . X. - 2. Papers relating to the ... China . Pre- sented to the House of Lords in pursuance of their Address of February 12th , 1857 , • Hansard's ...
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... China , as the monotonous and barren repetitions of uncouth forms , we gaze with silent wonder at the gigantic strength which is enthroned in the stupendous minsters of Amiens or York or Cologne . But the special exercise of great ...
... China , as the monotonous and barren repetitions of uncouth forms , we gaze with silent wonder at the gigantic strength which is enthroned in the stupendous minsters of Amiens or York or Cologne . But the special exercise of great ...
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... Chinese buildings . With whatever zeal the people of China may have embraced the doctrines of Buddha , it seems not a little strange that a mere piece of detail , insignificant in size , however important in its uses , should have been ...
... Chinese buildings . With whatever zeal the people of China may have embraced the doctrines of Buddha , it seems not a little strange that a mere piece of detail , insignificant in size , however important in its uses , should have been ...
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... Chinese are the only great and eminent people which has existed in the world without possessing anything worthy of ... China to record the past , or to express the higher emotions of art . Mr. Fergusson attributes this peculiarity to the ...
... Chinese are the only great and eminent people which has existed in the world without possessing anything worthy of ... China to record the past , or to express the higher emotions of art . Mr. Fergusson attributes this peculiarity to the ...
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... China , Australia and India , performed by the best sailing ships - at barely half what it was at the first period just named . Among the causes concerned in this great result must first be noted , the improved construction and fitting ...
... China , Australia and India , performed by the best sailing ships - at barely half what it was at the first period just named . Among the causes concerned in this great result must first be noted , the improved construction and fitting ...
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Seite 203 - All property of the wife, owned by her before marriage, and that acquired afterwards by gift, bequest, devise, or descent, with the rents, issues, and profits thereof, is her separate property. The wife may, without the consent of her husband, convey her separate property.
Seite 482 - Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere.
Seite 370 - There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas.. It is the Gulf Stream.
Seite 166 - That Prelacy, and the superiority of any office in the Church above Presbyters, is, and hath been, a great and insupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people, ever since the Reformation, they having been reformed from Popery by Presbyters, and, therefore, ought to be abolished.
Seite 483 - The characteristic peculiarity of his intellect was the union of great powers with low prejudices. If we judged of him by the best parts of his mind, we should place him almost as high as he was placed by the idolatry of Boswell ; if by the worst parts of his mind, we should place him even below Boswell himself.
Seite 482 - That such a man should have written one of the best books in the world is strange enough. But this is not all. Many persons who have conducted themselves foolishly in active life, and whose conversation has indicated no superior powers of mind, have left us valuable works.
Seite 483 - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer.
Seite 492 - If you come to settle here, we will have one day in the week on which we will meet by ourselves. That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
Seite 488 - His virtues walk'd their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void; And sure the Eternal Master found His single talent well employ'd.
Seite 482 - Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.