The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volum 143A. Constable, 1876 |
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... less worthy of the name than the nobility of Scotland . Happily , influences were now at work which opened a career to new men . ' It is our purpose , with the aid of the books which are at the head of this article , to give some ...
... less worthy of the name than the nobility of Scotland . Happily , influences were now at work which opened a career to new men . ' It is our purpose , with the aid of the books which are at the head of this article , to give some ...
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... less misrepresented . She was an ambi- ' tious and interested woman , of a masculine character and under- ' standing . ' Letter from Mr. Dalrymple Elphinstone in the Introduc- tion to the Bride of Lammermoor . ' society , composed of ...
... less misrepresented . She was an ambi- ' tious and interested woman , of a masculine character and under- ' standing . ' Letter from Mr. Dalrymple Elphinstone in the Introduc- tion to the Bride of Lammermoor . ' society , composed of ...
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... less in the spirit of chivalry than in the spirit of old Milnwood's dying injunction to keep the gear together , ' was , not to mention politicians of lesser rank , subsequently adopted by the noble houses of Hamilton , Queensberry ...
... less in the spirit of chivalry than in the spirit of old Milnwood's dying injunction to keep the gear together , ' was , not to mention politicians of lesser rank , subsequently adopted by the noble houses of Hamilton , Queensberry ...
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... less bitterly than the English Whigs resented the accession to office of Halifax and Danby , and , at a later date , of Sunderland , and much for the same reasons . Sir Patrick Hume wrote to Melville stating that there was great disgust ...
... less bitterly than the English Whigs resented the accession to office of Halifax and Danby , and , at a later date , of Sunderland , and much for the same reasons . Sir Patrick Hume wrote to Melville stating that there was great disgust ...
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... less than in dexterity of management . The oratorical treat enjoyed in the Scottish Parliament during these sessions he describes as hearing Duke Hamilton bawl and bluster after his usual manner , and Sir James Mont- ' gomery and Sir ...
... less than in dexterity of management . The oratorical treat enjoyed in the Scottish Parliament during these sessions he describes as hearing Duke Hamilton bawl and bluster after his usual manner , and Sir James Mont- ' gomery and Sir ...
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Pàgina 172 - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws, that made them, and lo, they are ! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a
Pàgina 172 - Consider it well ; each tone of our scale in itself is nought ; It is everywhere in the world—loud, soft, and all is said : Give it to me to use ! I mix it with two in my thought, And there ! ye have seen and heard ; consider and bow the
Pàgina 581 - who are the same in wealth and in " poverty, in glory and in obscurity." Great as were the honours and possessions which Macaulay acquired by his pen, all who knew him were well aware that the titles and rewards, which he gained by his own works, were as nothing in the
Pàgina 127 - that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament.
Pàgina 581 - except himself to speak. He has told us how his debt to them was incalculable ; how they guided him to truth; how they filled his mind with noble and graceful images; how they stood by him in all vicissitudes,—comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, " the old friends who are
Pàgina 438 - no goods or commodities whatever, of the growth, production, or manufacture of Asia, Africa, or America, should be imported either into England or Ireland or any of the plantations of Great Britain, except in Britishbuilt ships, owned by British subjects, and of which the master and three-fourths of the crew belonged to that country
Pàgina 568 - But he saw on Palatinus The white porch of his home, And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the walls of
Pàgina 569 - materially depends upon the temper in which the search for it is instituted and conducted." ' How much this letter pleased Macaulay is indicated by the fact of his having kept it unburned : a compliment which, except in this single instance, he never paid to any of his correspondents.
Pàgina 580 - History will have been printed and sold in the United Kingdom alone.' Caring little for money, except in so far as he was able to make a liberal and generous use of it, Macaulay enjoyed the power his new opulence had conferred on him. Until he was fifty-two years of age, he had never had a
Pàgina 497 - was thrown out of gear. The scarcity of hands made it difficult for the minor tenants to perform the services due for their lands, and only a temporary abandonment of half the rent by the landowners induced the farmers to refrain from the abandonment of their farms.