The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 80A. Constable, 1844 |
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... less believe , the alleged unkindness of a friend . All of us have our dissatisfied , complain- ing , uncongenial moments , when we may let drop words utterly at variance with the habitual suggestions of our hearts . These are repeated ...
... less believe , the alleged unkindness of a friend . All of us have our dissatisfied , complain- ing , uncongenial moments , when we may let drop words utterly at variance with the habitual suggestions of our hearts . These are repeated ...
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... less , sooner or later , than a hundred thousand pounds a - piece . Others lost in pro- portion ( or out of proportion ) to their means ; but we leave it to less occupied moralists , and better calculators to say , how many ruined ...
... less , sooner or later , than a hundred thousand pounds a - piece . Others lost in pro- portion ( or out of proportion ) to their means ; but we leave it to less occupied moralists , and better calculators to say , how many ruined ...
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... less marked , the improvement in the female sex is not less certain ; for it may safely be taken for granted , that the practice of gambling was fraught with the worst consequences to the finest feelings and best qualities of the sex ...
... less marked , the improvement in the female sex is not less certain ; for it may safely be taken for granted , that the practice of gambling was fraught with the worst consequences to the finest feelings and best qualities of the sex ...
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... less than 690 feet , or 120 below the surface of the Salt Lake . Supposing a portion of the bottom to have been upheaved by volcanic action , of which the neighbourhood shows such ex- tensive traces , so as to dyke off part of the ...
... less than 690 feet , or 120 below the surface of the Salt Lake . Supposing a portion of the bottom to have been upheaved by volcanic action , of which the neighbourhood shows such ex- tensive traces , so as to dyke off part of the ...
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... less sweeping condem- nation , if possible , on those who possess all the fragments which remain of knowledge and light , slender though they be , in Christian Ethiopia , and have preserved it through many ages of national decay - the ...
... less sweeping condem- nation , if possible , on those who possess all the fragments which remain of knowledge and light , slender though they be , in Christian Ethiopia , and have preserved it through many ages of national decay - the ...
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Seite 274 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Seite 323 - The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper, is faith.
Seite 20 - Blair's Chronological and Historical Tables, from the Creation to the Present Time : With Additions and Corrections from the most authentic Writers ; including the Computation of St. Paul, as connecting the Period from the Exode to the Temple.
Seite 468 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Seite 15 - When we got to Temple Bar he stopped me, pointed to the heads upon it, and slily whispered me, ' Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur ISTIS.
Seite 19 - LAING.— THE CHRONICLE OF THE KINGS OF NORWAY, From the Earliest Period of the History of the Northern Sea Kings to the Middle of the Twelfth Century, commonly called The Heimskringla. Translated from the Icelandic of Snorro Sturleson, with Notes, and a Preliminary Discourse, by SAMUEL LAINO, Author of " Notes of a Traveller,
Seite 313 - When I mention religion, I mean the Christian religion ; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion ; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
Seite 149 - A GLACIER is AN IMPERFECT FLUID, OR A VISCOUS BODY. WHICH IS URGED DOWN SLOPES OF A CERTAIN INCLINATION BY THE MUTUAL PRESSURE OF ITS PARTS.
Seite 135 - The Glacier's cold and restless mass Moves onward day by day ; But I am he who bids it pass, Or with its ice delay.