The North British review1866 |
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... thought I , while almost wondering at our own quiet and secure position amid the multitude ; for , to say truth , how little of Arab rule or life has yet been witnessed by Europeans , how little faithfully described ? Half romantic and ...
... thought I , while almost wondering at our own quiet and secure position amid the multitude ; for , to say truth , how little of Arab rule or life has yet been witnessed by Europeans , how little faithfully described ? Half romantic and ...
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... thought , of questioning the fidelity of a narrative , an incident , or an anecdote told by Niebuhr or Burckhardt , by Wellsted or by Wallin . No one suspects them of embellishing ; every one instinctively perceives , or thinks he ...
... thought , of questioning the fidelity of a narrative , an incident , or an anecdote told by Niebuhr or Burckhardt , by Wellsted or by Wallin . No one suspects them of embellishing ; every one instinctively perceives , or thinks he ...
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... the Wahaby power at no remote date ; but although this is a pretty safe prediction in Arabia , where nothing has for ages been permanent but anarchy , we suspect that ' the wish was father to that thought . 24 Palgrave's Central Arabia .
... the Wahaby power at no remote date ; but although this is a pretty safe prediction in Arabia , where nothing has for ages been permanent but anarchy , we suspect that ' the wish was father to that thought . 24 Palgrave's Central Arabia .
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that ' the wish was father to that thought . ' A reaction may no doubt be produced by intolerable misgovernment ; or a disputed succession , which our author seems to count upon with confi- dence , may shake the Wahaby power . Much will ...
that ' the wish was father to that thought . ' A reaction may no doubt be produced by intolerable misgovernment ; or a disputed succession , which our author seems to count upon with confi- dence , may shake the Wahaby power . Much will ...
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... in this belief we have thought it not undesirable to lay before our readers such a sketch of recent Austrian history , as may enable them to judge for themselves as to the bearing of the events which will follow Austria . 51.
... in this belief we have thought it not undesirable to lay before our readers such a sketch of recent Austrian history , as may enable them to judge for themselves as to the bearing of the events which will follow Austria . 51.
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الصفحة 79 - ... so far as it went; but it did not go far enough. The...
الصفحة 395 - Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end.
الصفحة 147 - The One remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light for ever shines, Earth's shadows fly ; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
الصفحة 116 - Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea. There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind, In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind.
الصفحة 22 - Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us!
الصفحة 97 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
الصفحة 99 - Well gentlemen, though Faustus' end be such As every Christian heart laments to think on, Yet for he was a Scholar, once admired For wondrous knowledge in our German schools, We'll give his mangled limbs due burial: And all the Students, cloth'd in mourning black, Shall wait upon his heavy funeral.
الصفحة 129 - When in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine...
الصفحة 99 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
الصفحة 225 - sacredness of property" is talked of, it should always be remembered, that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species.