The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volum 98A. Constable, 1853 |
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Pàgina 1
... things may last their time , and longer . It is needless to say how much of this popular fatalism is exhibited in the habitual acquiescence of modern society in the political institutions under which it lives . The cracks and VOL ...
... things may last their time , and longer . It is needless to say how much of this popular fatalism is exhibited in the habitual acquiescence of modern society in the political institutions under which it lives . The cracks and VOL ...
Pàgina 9
... things of a masculine ruler would be to pro- nounce him a tyrant of the worst description . It would be unjust so to decide of Maria Theresa , even in the first flush of her blood - bought triumph . She was in all things very woman ...
... things of a masculine ruler would be to pro- nounce him a tyrant of the worst description . It would be unjust so to decide of Maria Theresa , even in the first flush of her blood - bought triumph . She was in all things very woman ...
Pàgina 10
... things take their course , though to my deep sorrow . " ' Like all great spirits , ' Vehse proceeds , she was enthusiastic in love and friendship . Whoever was loved by her became the entire possessor of her affection . The feeling of ...
... things take their course , though to my deep sorrow . " ' Like all great spirits , ' Vehse proceeds , she was enthusiastic in love and friendship . Whoever was loved by her became the entire possessor of her affection . The feeling of ...
Pàgina 17
... things are told of him by our countrymen Wraxall and Swinburne ; and Dr. Vehse has gleaned his anecdotes from their pages as well as from other quarters ; but we will ourselves borrow the pen of a personal observer , the Baron Von ...
... things are told of him by our countrymen Wraxall and Swinburne ; and Dr. Vehse has gleaned his anecdotes from their pages as well as from other quarters ; but we will ourselves borrow the pen of a personal observer , the Baron Von ...
Pàgina 22
... things , the sense of this great duty unac- complished , fermenting in a character of strong will and positive judgment , during twenty years of nominal power and real im- potence under his mother's rule , which made of Joseph II . what ...
... things , the sense of this great duty unac- complished , fermenting in a character of strong will and positive judgment , during twenty years of nominal power and real im- potence under his mother's rule , which made of Joseph II . what ...
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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.