The Edinburgh Review, Band 148A. and C. Black, 1878 |
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... common remark , and true enough , that humour is oftener the attribute of a mournful than of a mirthful mind . But perhaps it is more frequently still the attribute of a mind which is both by turns . This was Armstrong's case . He may ...
... common remark , and true enough , that humour is oftener the attribute of a mournful than of a mirthful mind . But perhaps it is more frequently still the attribute of a mind which is both by turns . This was Armstrong's case . He may ...
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... common to both . And from this point of view one conclusion which Edmund Armstrong was led to adopt that what is comic should be in prose - ought not perhaps to be accepted abso- lutely and without reference to what may be the ...
... common to both . And from this point of view one conclusion which Edmund Armstrong was led to adopt that what is comic should be in prose - ought not perhaps to be accepted abso- lutely and without reference to what may be the ...
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... common property of kindling in large bodies of men an heroic self- sacrifice , of teaching them to subordinate material to moral ends , and of thus raising the tone of political life . All these enthusiasms had now gradually subsided ...
... common property of kindling in large bodies of men an heroic self- sacrifice , of teaching them to subordinate material to moral ends , and of thus raising the tone of political life . All these enthusiasms had now gradually subsided ...
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... common . Fugitive debtors , and with them many criminals , still found an Alsatia at the Mint , in South- wark , as late as 1723. Wrecking was practised to an enor- mous extent on the coast , till Pelham made it a capital offence ; but ...
... common . Fugitive debtors , and with them many criminals , still found an Alsatia at the Mint , in South- wark , as late as 1723. Wrecking was practised to an enor- mous extent on the coast , till Pelham made it a capital offence ; but ...
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... common courage to brave all the obloquy and derision it must provoke , and to commence the experiment in the centre of a half - savage population . Whitefield , however , had a just confidence in his cause and in his powers . Stand- ing ...
... common courage to brave all the obloquy and derision it must provoke , and to commence the experiment in the centre of a half - savage population . Whitefield , however , had a just confidence in his cause and in his powers . Stand- ing ...
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Seite 59 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Seite 469 - Highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal; and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within his Majesty's said realms, dominions and countries.
Seite 556 - CYPRUS. Cyprus: its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples. A Narrative of Researches and Excavations during Ten Years
Seite 33 - I have not been guilty of robbery or murder, and he has certainly changed his mind ; but the world, which is always good-natured towards those whose affairs do not exactly prosper, will not, or rather does not, fail to suspect that both, or worse, have been the occasion of my being banished, like General Kray, to my estate in Hungary.
Seite 291 - Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for Antiquity, it offers no redress for the Present, and makes no preparation for the Future.
Seite 291 - House" has abdicated its initiatory functions, and now serves only as a court of review of the legislation of the House of Commons. Whenever public opinion, which this party never attempts to form, to educate, or to lead, falls into some violent perplexity, passion, or caprice, this party yields without a struggle to the impulse, and, when the storm has passed, attempts to obstruct and obviate the logical and, ultimately, the inevitable results of the very measures they have themselves originated,...
Seite 371 - If any individual of the people of the Arabs contracting shall attack any that pass by land or sea of any nation whatsoever, in the way of plunder and piracy and not of acknowledged war, he shall be accounted an enemy of all mankind and shall be held to have forfeited both life and goods.
Seite 518 - Aid, friendship, nor alliance. With the poor I make my treaty, and the heart of man Sets the broad seal of its allegiance there, And ratifies the compact. Vassals, serfs, Ye that are bent with unrequited toil, Ye that have...
Seite 103 - Well, my boys, we have a clear sky, and are making fine headway over a smooth sea before a light breeze, and we shall soon lose sight of land; but what means this sudden lowering of the heavens, and that dark cloud arising from beneath the western horizon...
Seite 241 - If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy.