The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volum 44 |
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Pàgina 10
No such benefit could be hoped from the preferment of Gauden : and that his public character must have rendered him rather the object of disfavour than of patronage to the Court at this critical and jealous period , will be obvious to ...
No such benefit could be hoped from the preferment of Gauden : and that his public character must have rendered him rather the object of disfavour than of patronage to the Court at this critical and jealous period , will be obvious to ...
Pàgina 35
... it expressly confines his intercourse with them to the negociation for a time through Ormond , and declares that his only object was to save the poor Protestants of Ireland from ' their desperate enemies .
... it expressly confines his intercourse with them to the negociation for a time through Ormond , and declares that his only object was to save the poor Protestants of Ireland from ' their desperate enemies .
Pàgina 40
Instead of love of money , which Lord Clarendon attributes to Monk , the courteous editors call his object by the more decent name of preferment . ' The vulgar vices of his wife , painted with complacency and warmth by Clarendon ...
Instead of love of money , which Lord Clarendon attributes to Monk , the courteous editors call his object by the more decent name of preferment . ' The vulgar vices of his wife , painted with complacency and warmth by Clarendon ...
Pàgina 50
We will presume at present , that the only object is to read , not to write , or speak Italian , and that the pupil instructs himself from the Key without a master , and is not taught in a class . We wish to compare the plan of finding ...
We will presume at present , that the only object is to read , not to write , or speak Italian , and that the pupil instructs himself from the Key without a master , and is not taught in a class . We wish to compare the plan of finding ...
Pàgina 53
... any other object in learning lan- guages , than to turn something you do not understand into something you do understand , and as if that was not the best method which effected this object in the shortest and simplest manner .
... any other object in learning lan- guages , than to turn something you do not understand into something you do understand , and as if that was not the best method which effected this object in the shortest and simplest manner .
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No hem trobat cap ressenya als llocs habituals.
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 5 - London's Encyclopaedia of Agriculture: comprising the Laying-out, Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and the Cultivation and Economy of the Productions of Agriculture.
Pàgina 5 - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud.
Pàgina 13 - Mrs. Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry, in which the Elements of that Science are familiarly explained and illustrated by Experiments.
Pàgina 10 - COL. HAWKER'S INSTRUCTIONS to YOUNG SPORTSMEN in all that relates to Guns and Shooting.
Pàgina 12 - FIRST STEPS TO BOTANY, Intended as popular Illustrations of the Science, leading to its study as a branch of general education. By JL DRUMMOND, MD 4th Edit. 12mo. with numerous Woodcuts, 9s.
Pàgina 3 - Encyclopaedia of Agriculture ; comprising the Theory and Practice of the Valuation, Transfer, Laying-out, Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and of the Cultivation and Economy of the Animal and Vegetable Productions of Agriculture; Including all the latest Improvements, a general History of Agriculture in all Countries, a Statistical View of its present State, and Suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles.
Pàgina 243 - That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.
Pàgina 253 - The Surrender of Napoleon. Being the Narrative of the Surrender of Buonaparte, and of his residence on board HMS Bellerophon...
Pàgina 68 - And though the Greek learning grew in credit amongst the Romans, towards the end of their commonwealth, yet it was the Roman tongue that was made the study of their youth: their own language they were to make use of, and therefore it was their own language they were instructed and exercised in.
Pàgina 68 - But more particularly to determine the proper season for grammar; I do not see how it can reasonably be made any one's study, but as an introduction to rhetoric : when it is thought time to put any one upon the care of polishing his tongue, and of speaking better than the illiterate, then is the time for him to be instructed in the rules of grammar, and not before. For grammar being to teach men not to speak, but to speak correctly, and according to the exact rules of the tongue...