The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, 58. kötetA. Constable, 1834 |
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... true , could so much have been done by individual exertion to remedy the neglect of the Government ; but , from the very nature of such relief , it is partial and temporary , and not always well - directed . It is deficient in amount ...
... true , could so much have been done by individual exertion to remedy the neglect of the Government ; but , from the very nature of such relief , it is partial and temporary , and not always well - directed . It is deficient in amount ...
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... true , how should the British and Foreign School So- ciety have come unanimously to the following resolution in March 1831 ? That this Committee regrets to find , by the enquiries which have been instituted into the state of popular ...
... true , how should the British and Foreign School So- ciety have come unanimously to the following resolution in March 1831 ? That this Committee regrets to find , by the enquiries which have been instituted into the state of popular ...
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... true piety , as well as sound philosophy , is shown by the Committee of the General Assembly of our own Church ! In reporting the proportions of children in their Highland schools who are learning Gaelic and English reading , writing ...
... true piety , as well as sound philosophy , is shown by the Committee of the General Assembly of our own Church ! In reporting the proportions of children in their Highland schools who are learning Gaelic and English reading , writing ...
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... true poetic feeling , which is the soul of all the arts , the source of whatever is grand and touching in this world , we have not unfrequently , we confess , felt sceptical as to the use and value of those artificial contrivances ...
... true poetic feeling , which is the soul of all the arts , the source of whatever is grand and touching in this world , we have not unfrequently , we confess , felt sceptical as to the use and value of those artificial contrivances ...
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... true vein of poetry in his soul . Yet , so wholly incompetent was the writer of those exquisite passages to judge of poetry in its artificial state , fringed with rhyme , ' that , as is well known , the renowned Sir Richard Blackmore ...
... true vein of poetry in his soul . Yet , so wholly incompetent was the writer of those exquisite passages to judge of poetry in its artificial state , fringed with rhyme , ' that , as is well known , the renowned Sir Richard Blackmore ...
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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.