The Quarterly Review, Volum 76William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1845 |
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... tion of the plan . There can be no question that the performance bears throughout the stamp of extraordinary ability - the sense of easy power very rarely deserts us . But we pause on the bursts of genius ; and they are many . " Not one ...
... tion of the plan . There can be no question that the performance bears throughout the stamp of extraordinary ability - the sense of easy power very rarely deserts us . But we pause on the bursts of genius ; and they are many . " Not one ...
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... tion , for that such gifts employed with such energy must at once command , even were the name on the title - page a new one - but enough to show that we have not observed with indifference this manifestation of developed skill - this ...
... tion , for that such gifts employed with such energy must at once command , even were the name on the title - page a new one - but enough to show that we have not observed with indifference this manifestation of developed skill - this ...
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... tion to crowd their houses , the number of persons to a house is only 6 , and to a family only 5 ; * whilst in England we have 5.52 ; to a house in London , 7 · 4 ; in Lancashire and Middlesex , 7.5 . The next division of the subject is ...
... tion to crowd their houses , the number of persons to a house is only 6 , and to a family only 5 ; * whilst in England we have 5.52 ; to a house in London , 7 · 4 ; in Lancashire and Middlesex , 7.5 . The next division of the subject is ...
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... tion from one ill , fatal though that may be , is any security from other ills equally to be deprecated . But we enter not here on the diseases of Ireland , chronic or acute . They are at once too tender , and too painfully trite , for ...
... tion from one ill , fatal though that may be , is any security from other ills equally to be deprecated . But we enter not here on the diseases of Ireland , chronic or acute . They are at once too tender , and too painfully trite , for ...
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... tion ( for the poor slaves are in an eclipse still more dismal , and we have no separate account of the coloured race ) , we find that persons above twenty years of age , who can neither read nor write , are not quite 4 per cent . ( 3 ...
... tion ( for the poor slaves are in an eclipse still more dismal , and we have no separate account of the coloured race ) , we find that persons above twenty years of age , who can neither read nor write , are not quite 4 per cent . ( 3 ...
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Side 15 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; * if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles, fall.
Side 462 - Offending race of human kind, By nature, reason, learning, blind; You who through frailty...
Side 239 - His Britannic Majesty, on his side, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholic religion to the inhabitants of Canada; he will, in consequence, give the most precise and most effectual orders, that his new Roman Catholic subjects may profess the worship of their religion according to the rites of the Romish church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permit.
Side 132 - It is the best English book, beyond comparison, that ever has appeared for the illustration, not merely of the general topography and local curiosities, but of the national character and manners of Spain, her arts, antiquities, peculiarities, &c.
Side 82 - I wish it were still in my power to be a hypocrite in this particular. The common duties of society usually require it ; and the ecclesiastical profession only adds a little more to an innocent dissimulation, or rather simulation, without which it is impossible to pass through the world.
Side 303 - It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Side 193 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure. Others I see whom these surround — Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
Side 296 - It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other -women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.
Side 436 - There were Chesterfield and Fanny, In that eternal whisper which begun Ten years ago, and never will be done; For though you know he sees her every day, Still he has ever something new to say.
Side 296 - Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet...