The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volum 98A. Constable, 1853 |
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Pàgina 2
... never very reassuring ; we are more and more convinced of the insecurity of thrones and commonwealths , and political sagacity wholly fails to reveal to us the manner of their reconstruction . Yet we live on in a kind of provisional ...
... never very reassuring ; we are more and more convinced of the insecurity of thrones and commonwealths , and political sagacity wholly fails to reveal to us the manner of their reconstruction . Yet we live on in a kind of provisional ...
Pàgina 4
... never be agreed , until it is settled whether Thought , with its concomitant controversial turbulence , be or be not better than thoughtlessness , dividing its leisure hours between superstition and dissipation . At the end of the ...
... never be agreed , until it is settled whether Thought , with its concomitant controversial turbulence , be or be not better than thoughtlessness , dividing its leisure hours between superstition and dissipation . At the end of the ...
Pàgina 5
... never had any Chris- tian kingdom presented such an aspect of desolation , since the age of the Huns . We read of cultivated provinces relapsing into forest ; cities which had shrunken until the houses of whole de- serted quarters were ...
... never had any Chris- tian kingdom presented such an aspect of desolation , since the age of the Huns . We read of cultivated provinces relapsing into forest ; cities which had shrunken until the houses of whole de- serted quarters were ...
Pàgina 9
... never taken up arms against their sove- reign , and whose only crime was a passive submission to the Bavarian claim of succession , grounded on the will of one of her predecessors . Not to speak of banishments and confiscations , some ...
... never taken up arms against their sove- reign , and whose only crime was a passive submission to the Bavarian claim of succession , grounded on the will of one of her predecessors . Not to speak of banishments and confiscations , some ...
Pàgina 10
... never forgot the slightest service , or most trivial mark of attachment . The Hungarians , who had rescued her at the outset of her reign , were among the last thoughts which occu- pied her deathbed ; nor did she ever forget that the ...
... never forgot the slightest service , or most trivial mark of attachment . The Hungarians , who had rescued her at the outset of her reign , were among the last thoughts which occu- pied her deathbed ; nor did she ever forget that the ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 44 - Sanskrit works. I have conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues. I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.
Pàgina 122 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Pàgina 44 - The question now before us is simply whether, when it is in our power to teach this language, we shall teach languages in which by universal confession there are no books on any subject which deserve to be compared to our own...
Pàgina 148 - I did as plainly see his overthrow chained as it were by destiny to that journey, as it is possible for a man to ground a judgment upon future contingents.
Pàgina 146 - ... you had your asking — you had choice of times — you had power and authority more ample than ever any had, or ever shall have.
Pàgina 172 - ... to countenance and inculcate the principles of humanity and general benevolence, public and private charity, industry, and frugality, honesty and punctuality in their dealings ; sincerity, good humor and all social affections and generous sentiments among the people.
Pàgina 150 - Princes' actions must have no abrupt periods or conclusions, but otherwise I would think, that if you had my Lord of Essex here with a white staff in his hand, as my Lord of Leicester had, and continued him still about you for society to yourself, and for an honour and ornament to your attendance and Court in the eyes of your people, and in the eyes of foreign Embassadors, then were he in his right element...
Pàgina 44 - History, we shall countenance, at the public expense medical doctrines which would disgrace an English Farrier Astronomy, which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school - History, abounding with kings thirty feet high, and reigns thirty thousand years long - and Geography, made up of seas of treacle and seas of butter.
Pàgina 357 - I thanked every one for their excellent conduct, and cautioned them, as we should, in all probability, soon appear before our Maker, to enter his presence as men resigned to their fate.
Pàgina 43 - All parties seem to be agreed on one point, that the dialects commonly spoken among the natives of this part of India contain neither Literary nor scientific information, and are, moreover so poor and rude that, until they are enriched from some other quarter, it will not be easy to translate any valuable work into them.