Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, المجلد 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 |
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... reasons for exacting money rigorously , and for keep- ing it carefully . It must , however , be acknowledged that he was rigorous and careful for the public advan- tage , as well as for his own . To extol his moral cha- racter as Dr ...
... reasons for exacting money rigorously , and for keep- ing it carefully . It must , however , be acknowledged that he was rigorous and careful for the public advan- tage , as well as for his own . To extol his moral cha- racter as Dr ...
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... reason against a Caste . The one was a struggle of the laity against the clergy for intellectual liberty ; the other was a struggle of the people against princes and nobles for political liberty . In both cases , the spirit of ...
... reason against a Caste . The one was a struggle of the laity against the clergy for intellectual liberty ; the other was a struggle of the people against princes and nobles for political liberty . In both cases , the spirit of ...
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... reason is simply that they will not bear to be ill governed . In some of the Oriental monarchies , in Afghanistan for example , though there exists nothing which an European publicist would call a Constitution , the sovereign generally ...
... reason is simply that they will not bear to be ill governed . In some of the Oriental monarchies , in Afghanistan for example , though there exists nothing which an European publicist would call a Constitution , the sovereign generally ...
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... parliamentary debate . All this may be true . But it is no good plea for her suc- cessors ; and for this plain reason , that they were her successors . She governed one generation , they go- verned BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES . 31.
... parliamentary debate . All this may be true . But it is no good plea for her suc- cessors ; and for this plain reason , that they were her successors . She governed one generation , they go- verned BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES . 31.
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... reason to believe that his annual revenue amounted , in the season of his greatest power , to a sum near ten times as large as that which England yielded to Elizabeth . He had a standing army of fifty thousand excellent troops , at a ...
... reason to believe that his annual revenue amounted , in the season of his greatest power , to a sum near ten times as large as that which England yielded to Elizabeth . He had a standing army of fifty thousand excellent troops , at a ...
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الصفحة 240 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
الصفحة 37 - Forgiveness to the injured does belong ; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
الصفحة 262 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
الصفحة 475 - ... that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the sides.
الصفحة 189 - Lord," he said to the Duke of Devonshire, " I am sure that I can save this country, and that nobody else can.
الصفحة 426 - Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
الصفحة 2 - ... occupies fifteen hundred inches cubic measure, and that it weighs sixty pounds avoirdupois. Such a book might, before the deluge, have been considered as light reading by Hilpa and Shalum.
الصفحة 357 - Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here; Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last.
الصفحة 209 - We find in it the diligence, the accuracy, and the judgment of Hallam, united to the vivacity and the colouring of Southey. A history of England, written throughout in this manner, would be the most fascinating book in the language. It would be more in request at the circulating libraries than the last novel.
الصفحة 371 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours : but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.