The Edinburgh Review, Band 105A. and C. Black, 1857 |
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... English seamen . English cruizers had on several Occasions ravaged the coasts of Spain , and not long before Essex had taken and pillaged the city of Cadiz , Philip being unable to repel these attacks or to avenge these insults . Nay ...
... English seamen . English cruizers had on several Occasions ravaged the coasts of Spain , and not long before Essex had taken and pillaged the city of Cadiz , Philip being unable to repel these attacks or to avenge these insults . Nay ...
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... English registration , as attested by the volumes annually pub- lished . Though they afford us no present cases of longevity equivalent to those of Jenkins and Parr , they indicate a medium duration of life , and a proportion of lives ...
... English registration , as attested by the volumes annually pub- lished . Though they afford us no present cases of longevity equivalent to those of Jenkins and Parr , they indicate a medium duration of life , and a proportion of lives ...
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... English Ministry now be guided in its dealings with this question . It is vain to cite examples from the times of William III . or of Queen Anne for the guidance of our present statesmen , when the whole aspect of the times is so ...
... English Ministry now be guided in its dealings with this question . It is vain to cite examples from the times of William III . or of Queen Anne for the guidance of our present statesmen , when the whole aspect of the times is so ...
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... English Communion , —a sage and venerable body , with ascertained , safe , and limited au- thority , competent of itself to make laws for the society it re- presents , and to apply remedies to evils the urgency of which cannot be denied ...
... English Communion , —a sage and venerable body , with ascertained , safe , and limited au- thority , competent of itself to make laws for the society it re- presents , and to apply remedies to evils the urgency of which cannot be denied ...
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... English metropolitans . The Archbishop of Canterbury has permitted at least , if he has not encouraged , some amount of activity in the Convocation of his province during the last four years . On the other hand , it appears from a ...
... English metropolitans . The Archbishop of Canterbury has permitted at least , if he has not encouraged , some amount of activity in the Convocation of his province during the last four years . On the other hand , it appears from a ...
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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.