The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, 143. kötetA. Constable, 1876 |
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... duties and those which relate to councils for establishing usurped power or burdening the people , ' by which Stair justified his holding office under Crom- well , cannot avail him in this matter . Lauderdale was then carrying out his ...
... duties and those which relate to councils for establishing usurped power or burdening the people , ' by which Stair justified his holding office under Crom- well , cannot avail him in this matter . Lauderdale was then carrying out his ...
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... duties of his office may in fairness be ascribed to good - nature rather than to slackness ; and was indeed the wisest policy that could have been pursued in the interests of James . He had no part in the counsels of the Whigs who ...
... duties of his office may in fairness be ascribed to good - nature rather than to slackness ; and was indeed the wisest policy that could have been pursued in the interests of James . He had no part in the counsels of the Whigs who ...
14. oldal
... duties of Solicitor- General for England . Sir William Williams was constrained to accept that office by the same combination of influences which triumphed over the integrity of Dalrymple . The Revolution came ; and Sir John Dalrymple ...
... duties of Solicitor- General for England . Sir William Williams was constrained to accept that office by the same combination of influences which triumphed over the integrity of Dalrymple . The Revolution came ; and Sir John Dalrymple ...
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... duties of industry . In this is comprehended how the army proper may be suddenly swelled to a war establish- ment , such being the object of a system of reserves . The third point is similar to the second one in character , but with ...
... duties of industry . In this is comprehended how the army proper may be suddenly swelled to a war establish- ment , such being the object of a system of reserves . The third point is similar to the second one in character , but with ...
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... duties on , we will not say the lowest classes , but on those who , from want , inexperience , or early irregularity , seek a livelihood in a profession which has ever been viewed with singular distaste and aversion by the community at ...
... duties on , we will not say the lowest classes , but on those who , from want , inexperience , or early irregularity , seek a livelihood in a profession which has ever been viewed with singular distaste and aversion by the community at ...
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172. oldal - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws, that made them, and lo, they are ! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a
172. oldal - Consider it well ; each tone of our scale in itself is nought ; It is everywhere in the world—loud, soft, and all is said : Give it to me to use ! I mix it with two in my thought, And there ! ye have seen and heard ; consider and bow the
581. oldal - who are the same in wealth and in " poverty, in glory and in obscurity." Great as were the honours and possessions which Macaulay acquired by his pen, all who knew him were well aware that the titles and rewards, which he gained by his own works, were as nothing in the
127. oldal - that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament.
581. oldal - except himself to speak. He has told us how his debt to them was incalculable ; how they guided him to truth; how they filled his mind with noble and graceful images; how they stood by him in all vicissitudes,—comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, " the old friends who are
438. oldal - no goods or commodities whatever, of the growth, production, or manufacture of Asia, Africa, or America, should be imported either into England or Ireland or any of the plantations of Great Britain, except in Britishbuilt ships, owned by British subjects, and of which the master and three-fourths of the crew belonged to that country
568. oldal - But he saw on Palatinus The white porch of his home, And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the walls of
569. oldal - materially depends upon the temper in which the search for it is instituted and conducted." ' How much this letter pleased Macaulay is indicated by the fact of his having kept it unburned : a compliment which, except in this single instance, he never paid to any of his correspondents.
580. oldal - History will have been printed and sold in the United Kingdom alone.' Caring little for money, except in so far as he was able to make a liberal and generous use of it, Macaulay enjoyed the power his new opulence had conferred on him. Until he was fifty-two years of age, he had never had a
497. oldal - was thrown out of gear. The scarcity of hands made it difficult for the minor tenants to perform the services due for their lands, and only a temporary abandonment of half the rent by the landowners induced the farmers to refrain from the abandonment of their farms.