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... POLITICAL ECONOMY FOR SCHOOLS . By Dr. A. H. DICK . 160 pp . , Extra Fcap . 8vo , cloth , OUTLINES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY . By B. SIMP- SON , London . 192 pp . , Illustrated , Fcap . 8vo , cloth , OUTLINES OF NATURAL HISTORY . By Dr ...
... POLITICAL ECONOMY FOR SCHOOLS . By Dr. A. H. DICK . 160 pp . , Extra Fcap . 8vo , cloth , OUTLINES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY . By B. SIMP- SON , London . 192 pp . , Illustrated , Fcap . 8vo , cloth , OUTLINES OF NATURAL HISTORY . By Dr ...
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... political principles . The style in which the work is written is almost without a rival for sustained dignity . The periods are often too long and too intricate , but " the sweep and cadence of his sentences are in felicitous unison ...
... political principles . The style in which the work is written is almost without a rival for sustained dignity . The periods are often too long and too intricate , but " the sweep and cadence of his sentences are in felicitous unison ...
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... political appointment , but Burleigh had his own son , Robert , to provide for ; and Bacon , much against his inclination , was obliged to take up the study of the law . In 1582 , he was called to the bar , and rose rapidly in the ...
... political appointment , but Burleigh had his own son , Robert , to provide for ; and Bacon , much against his inclination , was obliged to take up the study of the law . In 1582 , he was called to the bar , and rose rapidly in the ...
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... political agitation of the country of course affected the current literature . The press teemed with political pamphlets , and the theatre was turned into an arena for the contest of political parties . Under these circumstances it was ...
... political agitation of the country of course affected the current literature . The press teemed with political pamphlets , and the theatre was turned into an arena for the contest of political parties . Under these circumstances it was ...
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... political satire , this poem is perhaps the finest in the language . The success was complete : it passed through five editions within a year . = Not long before the publication of the satire , Shaftes- bury had been committed to the ...
... political satire , this poem is perhaps the finest in the language . The success was complete : it passed through five editions within a year . = Not long before the publication of the satire , Shaftes- bury had been committed to the ...
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الصفحة 36 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.
الصفحة 37 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me ; Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief.
الصفحة 129 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
الصفحة 205 - Wordsworth on the other hand, |was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us; an inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes, yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor...
الصفحة 113 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was...
الصفحة 209 - Several years ago, when the Author retired to his native Mountains, with the hope of being enabled to construct a literary Work that might live, it was a reasonable thing that he should take a review of his own Mind, and examine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for such employment. As subsidiary to this preparation, he undertook to record, in Verse, the origin and progress of his own powers, as far as he was acquainted with them.
الصفحة 127 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
الصفحة 35 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
الصفحة 205 - ... modifying colours of the imagination. The sudden charm which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset diffused over a known and familiar landscape, appeared to represent the practicability of combining both.
الصفحة 154 - I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power, for I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or check.