The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volum 45A. Constable, 1827 |
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... author ; and we do not know very well why we have not given them to our readers , instead of our own , except that they would necessarily have been longer . We must make room , however , for the following admirable remarks on the moral ...
... author ; and we do not know very well why we have not given them to our readers , instead of our own , except that they would necessarily have been longer . We must make room , however , for the following admirable remarks on the moral ...
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... author . It is of course impossible for us to give any adequate specimens of those interesting variations : -and , indeed , they cannot be per- used with full advantage , without having the finished copy to refer to ; -and we hope ...
... author . It is of course impossible for us to give any adequate specimens of those interesting variations : -and , indeed , they cannot be per- used with full advantage , without having the finished copy to refer to ; -and we hope ...
Pàgina 10
... author's genius , and his habits of composition . There is a sketch of a drama founded on the Vicar of Wakefield , bearing date so early as the author's seventeenth year . There are also three acts of another drama , or opera , of a ...
... author's genius , and his habits of composition . There is a sketch of a drama founded on the Vicar of Wakefield , bearing date so early as the author's seventeenth year . There are also three acts of another drama , or opera , of a ...
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... author's judgment was not warped , even on this occasion , by personal or party favour . In judging of the policy of Mr Pitt , during the Revolutionary war , his partisans , we know , laud it as having been the means of salvation to ...
... author's judgment was not warped , even on this occasion , by personal or party favour . In judging of the policy of Mr Pitt , during the Revolutionary war , his partisans , we know , laud it as having been the means of salvation to ...
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... author has made to them , will be best understood from the fol- lowing extract from the Preface to the fifth edition of his work , which , though already printed in some newspapers , has not yet , from the delay in bringing out that ...
... author has made to them , will be best understood from the fol- lowing extract from the Preface to the fifth edition of his work , which , though already printed in some newspapers , has not yet , from the delay in bringing out that ...
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Pàgina 4 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Pàgina 4 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold.
Pàgina 12 - He certainly has a great deal of fancy, and a very good memory; but, with a perverse ingenuity, he employs these qualities as no other person does — for he employs his fancy in his narratives, and keeps his...
Pàgina 262 - During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfall of the Roman Empire, Italy had preserved, in a far greater degree than any other part of Western Europe, the traces of ancient civilization.
Pàgina 11 - Advowsons, &c. , and for the Renewing of Leases held under Cathedral Churches, Colleges, or other corporate bodies ; for Terms of Years certain, and for Lives ; also for Valuing Reversionary Estates, Deferred Annuities, Next Presentations, &c., together with Smart's Five Tables of Compound Interest, and an Extension of the same to lower and Intermediate Rates. By WILLIAM INWOOD, Architect.
Pàgina 4 - Brick and Plaster Groins, Niches of every description, Sky-lights, Lines for Roofs and Domes ; with a great variety of Designs for Roofs, Trussed Girders, Floors, Domes, Bridges, <tc., Angle Bars for Shop Fronts, <kc., and Raking Mouldings.
Pàgina 31 - ... in direct opposition to the declared sense of a great majority of the nation, and they should be put in force with all their rigorous provisions, if his opinion were asked by the people as to their obedience, he should tell them, that it was no longer a question of moral obligation and duty, but of prudence.
Pàgina 13 - DUTIES ; Or, Instructions to Young Married Ladies on the Management of their Households, and the Regulation of their Conduct in the various Relations and Duties of Married Life. By Mrs W. PARKES.
Pàgina 267 - Ridotta tutta in somma pace e tranquillita, coltivata non meno ne' luoghi piu montuosi e piu sterili che nelle pianure e region! piu fertili, ne sottoposta ad altro imperio che de' suoi medesimi, non solo era abbondantissima d'abitatori e di ricchezze ; ma illustrata sommamente dalla magnificenza di molti principi, dallo splendore di molte nobilissime e bellissime citta, dalla sedia e maesta della religione, fioriva d...