The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volum 92A. Constable, 1850 |
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... Roman knight exhibited by Augustus in the theatre tantum ut ostenderet ' adolescentulum , honeste natum , quod erat bipedali minor , librarum septemdecim et vocis immensæ . ' ⚫f Dr. Molyneux was brother to the celebrated astronomer of ...
... Roman knight exhibited by Augustus in the theatre tantum ut ostenderet ' adolescentulum , honeste natum , quod erat bipedali minor , librarum septemdecim et vocis immensæ . ' ⚫f Dr. Molyneux was brother to the celebrated astronomer of ...
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... Roman worthies . From them the man of action and the man of speculation have alike derived their models of valour , policy , and philosophy . Three great schools of philology , -the Italian , the French , and the German , -have ...
... Roman worthies . From them the man of action and the man of speculation have alike derived their models of valour , policy , and philosophy . Three great schools of philology , -the Italian , the French , and the German , -have ...
Side 58
... Roman learning . The name of Justinian is still authoritative in courts of law ; and the name of Cæsar is almost synonymous with that of sovereign . Still there was room for a history of Rome , both absolutely as regards the subject ...
... Roman learning . The name of Justinian is still authoritative in courts of law ; and the name of Cæsar is almost synonymous with that of sovereign . Still there was room for a history of Rome , both absolutely as regards the subject ...
Side 59
... Roman chronicler , the faculty of relating what he had himself heard and seen ; and his opportunities for both oral and personal information were unusually favourable . He had access to the libraries , the archives , and the society of ...
... Roman chronicler , the faculty of relating what he had himself heard and seen ; and his opportunities for both oral and personal information were unusually favourable . He had access to the libraries , the archives , and the society of ...
Side 60
... Roman history . Many persons will , there- fore , not unnaturally presume that the whole case ( so to speak ) has been thoroughly sifted , and that the last investigator of it can , at best , present them rather with a new form than ...
... Roman history . Many persons will , there- fore , not unnaturally presume that the whole case ( so to speak ) has been thoroughly sifted , and that the last investigator of it can , at best , present them rather with a new form than ...
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Side 352 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Side 276 - Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Side 327 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and in'tense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Side 90 - Stoop then, and wash. — How many ages hence, Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, In states unborn, and accents yet unknown ? Bru.
Side 332 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style ; which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy, let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France.
Side 347 - This is a misery much to be lamented ; for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but, were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received.
Side 557 - To the inmost mind, There exercise all his fierce accidents, And on her purest spirits prey, As on entrails, joints, and limbs, With answerable pains, but more intense, Though void of corporal sense.