The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, المجلد 66A. Constable, 1838 |
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... less than a cat , and just better than a deal ' dresser . ' This predilection for , and concentration in the scenes imme- diately around him , and even the books to which he had got ac- customed , narrowed his literary pleasures . He ...
... less than a cat , and just better than a deal ' dresser . ' This predilection for , and concentration in the scenes imme- diately around him , and even the books to which he had got ac- customed , narrowed his literary pleasures . He ...
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... less attention and accommodation , than I have done since in more expensive situations in the house ? The getting in , in- deed , and the crowding up those inconvenient staircases , was bad enough ; but there was still a law of civility ...
... less attention and accommodation , than I have done since in more expensive situations in the house ? The getting in , in- deed , and the crowding up those inconvenient staircases , was bad enough ; but there was still a law of civility ...
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... less you , whose hospitality and love I have abused ; accept , however , my entreaties for your forgiveness , and for your prayers . Conceive a poor miserable wretch , who for many years has been attempting to beat off pain , by a ...
... less you , whose hospitality and love I have abused ; accept , however , my entreaties for your forgiveness , and for your prayers . Conceive a poor miserable wretch , who for many years has been attempting to beat off pain , by a ...
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... less semblances of a legal confirmation from the same authority . 6 We are far from denying the general position of Sir Francis Palgrave , that in the middle ages , as at present , elections were frequently made , and judicial ...
... less semblances of a legal confirmation from the same authority . 6 We are far from denying the general position of Sir Francis Palgrave , that in the middle ages , as at present , elections were frequently made , and judicial ...
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... less and might have been omitted by the editor without the slightest loss to the public . The only variation we have met from our common histories which appears to us of the smallest value , is in the return from St Mary's Huntingdon ...
... less and might have been omitted by the editor without the slightest loss to the public . The only variation we have met from our common histories which appears to us of the smallest value , is in the return from St Mary's Huntingdon ...
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الصفحة 169 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
الصفحة 185 - Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and...
الصفحة 21 - I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments, as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
الصفحة 163 - The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy but cannot disjoin them.
الصفحة 172 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
الصفحة 21 - The wonder of these sights impels me into night-walks about her crowded streets, and I often shed tears in the motley Strand from fulness of joy at so much life. — All these emotions must be strange to you; so are your rural emotions to me. But consider, what must I have been doing all my life, not to have lent great portions of my heart with usury to such scenes?
الصفحة 189 - Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
الصفحة 172 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
الصفحة 16 - ... being in general readers of plays, were obliged to attend the more, and did attend, to what was going on on the stage, because a word lost would have been a chasm which it was impossible for them to fill up. With such reflections we consoled our pride then ; and I appeal to you whether as a woman I met generally with less attention and accommodation than I have done since in more expensive situations in the house.
الصفحة 184 - He was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern. Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed ; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed.