The National Review, المجلد 11R. Theobald, 1860 |
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... speak , a foreign body in the midst of free and living Italy . The country would not suffer from it more or less than a veteran suffers from a ball that his surgeon has for- gotten to extract . " Good - humoured contempt can scarcely go ...
... speak , a foreign body in the midst of free and living Italy . The country would not suffer from it more or less than a veteran suffers from a ball that his surgeon has for- gotten to extract . " Good - humoured contempt can scarcely go ...
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... speak in the name of their several countries , and to say what each is prepared to give up and accept . A French captain is president , and every one else makes sacrifices and receives indemnities . The lady who represents England cedes ...
... speak in the name of their several countries , and to say what each is prepared to give up and accept . A French captain is president , and every one else makes sacrifices and receives indemnities . The lady who represents England cedes ...
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... speak generally at first , -and afterwards we will discuss them in relation to each species in particular . The differences according to their modes of life , their actions , and their characters , are such as these , -that some of them ...
... speak generally at first , -and afterwards we will discuss them in relation to each species in particular . The differences according to their modes of life , their actions , and their characters , are such as these , -that some of them ...
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... speak- ing , it is necessary that the size of birds should be very small ; for it is not easy for a body of great mass to be moved through the air " ( De Part . Anim . lib . iv . c . 13 ) . Allowing for a little exaggeration in the ...
... speak- ing , it is necessary that the size of birds should be very small ; for it is not easy for a body of great mass to be moved through the air " ( De Part . Anim . lib . iv . c . 13 ) . Allowing for a little exaggeration in the ...
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... speak , the diagonal between these two causes ; and thus the mode of discussion proposed by Aristotle invited almost of necessity an attempt to resolve the diagonal into its component forces . Moreover , Plato's doc- trine of ideas had ...
... speak , the diagonal between these two causes ; and thus the mode of discussion proposed by Aristotle invited almost of necessity an attempt to resolve the diagonal into its component forces . Moreover , Plato's doc- trine of ideas had ...
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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...