The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, 58. kötetA. Constable, 1834 |
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... reason and improvement . But the practical statesman admits the truth of many an abstract principle , which he cannot , and dare not , apply to the business of government . He has elements to deal with , interests to attend to ...
... reason and improvement . But the practical statesman admits the truth of many an abstract principle , which he cannot , and dare not , apply to the business of government . He has elements to deal with , interests to attend to ...
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... reason . It is , in truth , a marked step in advance to that state of civilisation which the world is rapidly tending to , when the intercourse between nations will consist , not in wars and angry protocols , but in a mutual interchange ...
... reason . It is , in truth , a marked step in advance to that state of civilisation which the world is rapidly tending to , when the intercourse between nations will consist , not in wars and angry protocols , but in a mutual interchange ...
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... reason of the thing , to protect the English church against its enemies , if it were but safe from the indiscreet zeal of its friends . They may rest assured , that if its salvation depended on having wisdom shut out from the people by ...
... reason of the thing , to protect the English church against its enemies , if it were but safe from the indiscreet zeal of its friends . They may rest assured , that if its salvation depended on having wisdom shut out from the people by ...
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... reason , among all mere English readers , the most admired and popular . Were there wanting any thing to confirm us in our prosaic suspicion that verse - making is an exceedingly over - rated art , the facility with which , of late ...
... reason , among all mere English readers , the most admired and popular . Were there wanting any thing to confirm us in our prosaic suspicion that verse - making is an exceedingly over - rated art , the facility with which , of late ...
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... Reason , -seeing that Reason is the autho- rity on which he mainly founds his creed , it is not for us to determine . All that we can collect from the foregoing passage is , that the Church Reformers have indeed Reason on their side ...
... Reason , -seeing that Reason is the autho- rity on which he mainly founds his creed , it is not for us to determine . All that we can collect from the foregoing passage is , that the Church Reformers have indeed Reason on their side ...
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420. oldal - On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation ; illustrating such work by all reasonable arguments, as for instance the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms ; the effect of digestion, and thereby of conversion ; the construction of the hand of man, and an infinite variety of other arguments; as also by discoveries ancient and modern, in arts, sciences, and the whole extent of literature.
253. oldal - Oh — yes — yes — to be sure — Annapolis must be defended — troops must be sent to Annapolis — Pray where is Annapolis ?" — " Cape Breton an island ! wonderful ! — show it me in the map. So it is, sure enough. My dear sir, you always bring us good news. I must go and tell the King that Cape Breton is an island.
190. oldal - ... void of meaning and reality, and bewilder us among vain conjectures. Useful, it is true, they are to man as points of exact and permanent reference ; but he must have studied astronomy to little purpose, who can suppose man to be the only object of his Creator's care, or who does not see in the vast and wonderful apparatus around us provision for other races of animated beings.
517. oldal - Pitt was then one of the poor ; and to him Heaven directed a portion of the wealth of the haughty dowager. She left him a legacy of ten thousand pounds, in consideration of ' ' the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England, and to prevent the ruin of his country.
525. oldal - I was taken to see the place where the two rivers meet, the one gentle, feeble, languid, and, though languid, yet of no depth, the other a boisterous and impetuous torrent: but different as they are, they meet at last.
481. oldal - Whatever respect might have been felt for the state sovereignties, it is not to be disguised, that the framers of the constitution viewed, with some apprehension, the violent acts which might grow out of the feelings of the moment ; and that the people of the United States in adopting that instrument, have manifested a determination to shield themselves, and their property, from the effects of those sudden and strong passions to which men are exposed.
223. oldal - Miss Chudleigh's absurdities, and George Selwyn's good sayings ; to decorate a grotesque house with piecrust battlements; to procure rare engravings and antique chimney-boards; to match odd gauntlets ; to lay out a maze of walks within five acres of ground — these were the grave employments of his long life.
420. oldal - Gilbert, Esq. requested the assistance of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury and of the Bishop of London, in determining upon the best mode of carrying into effect the intentions of the Testator. Acting with their advice, and with the concurrence of a nobleman immediately connected with the deceased, Mr. Davies Gilbert appointed the following eight gentlemen to write separate Treatises on the different branches of the subject as here stated: THE REV.
396. oldal - For which of the kings of this land before Her Majesty had their banners ever seen in the Caspian sea? which of them hath ever dealt with the Emperor of Persia, as her Majesty hath done, and obtained for her merchants large and loving privileges?
19. oldal - All the provisions hitherto described would be of none effect, if we took no pains to procure for the public school thus constituted, an able master, and worthy of the high vocation of instructing the people. It can not be too often repeated, that it is the master that makes the school.