The Edinburgh Review, Volum 67A. and C. Black, 1838 |
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... instances . It thus became one of the great distinctions between the parties which divide political men both in England and other countries , that the friends of arbitrary government were jealous of the press's licentiousness , VOL ...
... instances . It thus became one of the great distinctions between the parties which divide political men both in England and other countries , that the friends of arbitrary government were jealous of the press's licentiousness , VOL ...
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... instances to obtain convictions . --- The restoration of peace brought alongst with it for some time , if not a suspension of political strife , at least a mitigation of its rancour ; and the press ceasing to exhibit any great activity ...
... instances to obtain convictions . --- The restoration of peace brought alongst with it for some time , if not a suspension of political strife , at least a mitigation of its rancour ; and the press ceasing to exhibit any great activity ...
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... Instances are not wanting of men committing in public a breach of veracity , and sacrificing truth to save the reputation of their paramours ; nor is any moralist so stern as to visit with severe censure conduct like this . But who was ...
... Instances are not wanting of men committing in public a breach of veracity , and sacrificing truth to save the reputation of their paramours ; nor is any moralist so stern as to visit with severe censure conduct like this . But who was ...
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... instance of this occurred on the defeat of the Bill , in 1820. Mr Brougham waited upon her to announce it , and tender his congratulations . She instantly said that there was a sum of L.7000 at Mr D. Kinnaird's ( the banker's ) , which ...
... instance of this occurred on the defeat of the Bill , in 1820. Mr Brougham waited upon her to announce it , and tender his congratulations . She instantly said that there was a sum of L.7000 at Mr D. Kinnaird's ( the banker's ) , which ...
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... instance has been often mentioned of a great personage being crossed in his illicit amours by the virtue of their object , and revenging him- self by making a reverend newspaper editor , whom he indemni- fied , and had to pay for ...
... instance has been often mentioned of a great personage being crossed in his illicit amours by the virtue of their object , and revenging him- self by making a reverend newspaper editor , whom he indemni- fied , and had to pay for ...
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Side 450 - My lords, we are called upon as members of this house, as men, as Christian men, to protest against such notions standing near the throne, polluting the ear of majesty. ' That God and nature put into our hands.
Side 450 - I call upon the honour of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.
Side 496 - ... the virtuous. You will jest at any man in public, without respect of the person's dignity or your own : this disgraceth your gravity, more than it can advance the opinion of your wit ; and so do all actions which we see you do directly with a touch of vainglory, having no respect to the true end. You make the law to lean too much to your opinion, whereby you show yourself to be a legal tyrant...
Side 450 - Lords, eating the mangled victims of his barbarous battles! Such horrible notions shock every precept of religion, divine or natural, and every generous feeling of humanity. And, my Lords, they shock every sentiment of honour; they shock me as a lover of honourable war, and a detester of murderous barbarity. ' These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation.
Side 450 - I conjure them to join in the holy work, and to vindicate the religion of their God. I appeal to the wisdom and the law of this Learned Bench to defend and support the justice of their country. I call upon the Bishops to interpose the unsullied sanctity of their lawn ; upon the learned...
Side 450 - I know not what ideas that lord may entertain of God and nature; but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian...
Side 316 - Ich weiß nicht, was soll es bedeuten, Daß ich so traurig bin ; Ein Märchen aus alten Zeiten, Das kommt mir nicht aus dem Sinn. Die Luft ist kühl, und es dunkelt, Und ruhig fließt der Rhein ; Der Gipfel des Berges funkelt Im Abendsonnenschein. Die schönste Jungfrau sitzet Dort oben wunderbar, Ihr goldnes Geschmeide blitzet, Sie kämmt ihr goldenes Haar. Sie kämmt es mit goldenem Kamme Und singt ein Lied dabei ; Das hat eine wundersame...
Side 450 - Protestant religion, of this country, against the arbitrary cruelties of Popery and the Inquisition, if these more than popish cruelties and inquisitorial practices are let loose among us...
Side 496 - His incarceration lasted seven months, at first without intercourse with his family or friends, and even when he obtained his discharge in August 1622, the king said 'he was the fittest instrument for a tyrant that ever was in the realm of England,' and ordered him to confine himself to his mansion at Stoke Pogis.
Side 450 - Spanish cruelty. We turn loose these savage ' hell-hounds ' against our brethren and countrymen in America, of the same language, laws, liberties, and religion ; endeared to us by every tie, that should sanctify humanity.