The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, 181. kötet |
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For to him the Blue Book is deterrent , because its colour and usual contents
belong to a kind of literature that either makes no attempt to deserve popularity ,
preferring dulness to incaution or inaccuracy , or else incurs legitimate suspicion
if it ...
For to him the Blue Book is deterrent , because its colour and usual contents
belong to a kind of literature that either makes no attempt to deserve popularity ,
preferring dulness to incaution or inaccuracy , or else incurs legitimate suspicion
if it ...
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... until we find ourselves burdened with the administration of some unruly people
from whose barren hills and narrow valleys no revenue can be extracted , and
who can only be quieted by enrolment into a kind of border militia , at some cost ...
... until we find ourselves burdened with the administration of some unruly people
from whose barren hills and narrow valleys no revenue can be extracted , and
who can only be quieted by enrolment into a kind of border militia , at some cost ...
7. oldal
... not without some preliminary fighting , a kind of overlordship upon some of the
tribes inhabiting those remote highlands . In Baluchistan , the wide sparsely
populated country that stretches from below Affghanistan southward to the
Arabian ...
... not without some preliminary fighting , a kind of overlordship upon some of the
tribes inhabiting those remote highlands . In Baluchistan , the wide sparsely
populated country that stretches from below Affghanistan southward to the
Arabian ...
19. oldal
... native ideas and traditions . Local custom and established precedent are of
course the safest guides ; but when disputes of this kind come before the law
courts the decision is almost sure to irritate the losing side , and if a turbulent
minority ...
... native ideas and traditions . Local custom and established precedent are of
course the safest guides ; but when disputes of this kind come before the law
courts the decision is almost sure to irritate the losing side , and if a turbulent
minority ...
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This smearing of trees is by no means the first occurrence of its kind , though the
first , certainly , to be taken so much notice of . . . . Once the incident was raised
into a portent of political danger , and excitement rose to its height where all ...
This smearing of trees is by no means the first occurrence of its kind , though the
first , certainly , to be taken so much notice of . . . . Once the incident was raised
into a portent of political danger , and excitement rose to its height where all ...
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491. oldal - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea : I am become a name ; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
491. oldal - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
491. oldal - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners...
490. oldal - THERE is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro...
491. oldal - I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How 'dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! As tho
527. oldal - Maenad, even from the dim verge Of the horizon to the zenith's height, The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge Of the dying year, to which this closing night Will be the dome of a vast...
506. oldal - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
259. oldal - I expected to find a contest between a government and a people: I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single state: I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws or institutions until we could first succeed in terminating the deadly animosity that now separates the inhabitants of Lower Canada into the hostile divisions of French and English.
490. oldal - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave? All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence; ripen, fall and cease: Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.