The National Review, المجلد 11R. Theobald, 1860 |
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... sense of direct imitation , are almost to be ranked with Candide and L'Ingénu . Like Voltaire , M. About charms us not by direct sallies of witty writing so much as by happy turns of language and a certain well - bred impertinence of ...
... sense of direct imitation , are almost to be ranked with Candide and L'Ingénu . Like Voltaire , M. About charms us not by direct sallies of witty writing so much as by happy turns of language and a certain well - bred impertinence of ...
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... sense to be merely funny , and they illustrate a considerable section of the thoughts and feelings of modern France . M. About's books , which are now growing tolerably nu- merous , may be divided into three classes . There are his ...
... sense to be merely funny , and they illustrate a considerable section of the thoughts and feelings of modern France . M. About's books , which are now growing tolerably nu- merous , may be divided into three classes . There are his ...
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... sense of the comic are most admirable adjuncts when they accompany such an amount of honest investigation and shrewdness of perception as are dis- played in works like M. About's Question Romaine and Mr. Trollope's volume on the West ...
... sense of the comic are most admirable adjuncts when they accompany such an amount of honest investigation and shrewdness of perception as are dis- played in works like M. About's Question Romaine and Mr. Trollope's volume on the West ...
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... sense , set over against nature ; so that the thoughts of man have a tendency to run parallel with the creative thoughts of God , that is , with the facts of nature . If this were not so , we should have nothing but mere hap - hazard to ...
... sense , set over against nature ; so that the thoughts of man have a tendency to run parallel with the creative thoughts of God , that is , with the facts of nature . If this were not so , we should have nothing but mere hap - hazard to ...
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... sense of his real scientific insight is the account which he has given us of the geological formation of Egypt . Having described the formation of land by the deposit of earth , and illustrated this by the process going forward with the ...
... sense of his real scientific insight is the account which he has given us of the geological formation of Egypt . Having described the formation of land by the deposit of earth , and illustrated this by the process going forward with the ...
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الصفحة 452 - No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
الصفحة 231 - Highness that it may be established and enacted by the authority aforesaid that such jurisdictions, privileges, superiorities and preeminences spiritual and ecclesiastical, as by any spiritual or ecclesiastical power or authority hath heretofore been or may lawfully be exercised or used for the visitation of the ecclesiastical state and persons, and for reformation, order and correction of the same and of all manner of errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempts and enormities, shall for...
الصفحة 297 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
الصفحة 461 - They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade, — the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses itself through the feeling and observation of every sketch. Instead of passion there is sentiment; and, even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always so warmly dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver.
الصفحة 513 - THE GLACIERS OF THE ALPS : being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents. An Account of the Origin and Phenomena of Glaciers, and an Exposition of the Physical Principles to which they are related.
الصفحة 451 - It was a folly, with the materiality of this daily life pressing so intrusively upon me, to attempt to fling myself back into another age; or to insist on creating the semblance of a world out of airy matter, when, at every moment, the impalpable beauty of my soap-bubble was broken by the rude contact of some actual circumstance.
الصفحة 496 - Nothing at first can appear more difficult to believe than that the more complex organs and instincts have been perfected, not by means superior to, though analogous with, human reason, but by the accumulation of innumerable slight variations, each good for the individual possessor.
الصفحة 126 - In these critical moments, how salutary will be the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens, in order to check the misguided career, and to suspend the blow meditated by the people against themselves, until reason, justice, and truth can regain their authority over the public mind...
الصفحة 126 - ... there are particular moments in public affairs, when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn.
الصفحة 451 - ... the burden that began to weigh so heavily; to seek resolutely the true and indestructible value that lay hidden in the petty and wearisome incidents and ordinary characters with which I was now conversant. The fault was mine. The page of life that was spread out before me was so dull and commonplace only because I had not fathomed its deeper import. A better book than I shall ever write was there...