The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, المجلد 66A. Constable, 1838 |
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... persons is exactly alike . No more will be their letters , upon the supposition that their letters are what we have said they ought to be - their conversation in another form . Of this we have excellent examples of our own . In Gray ...
... persons is exactly alike . No more will be their letters , upon the supposition that their letters are what we have said they ought to be - their conversation in another form . Of this we have excellent examples of our own . In Gray ...
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... persons good and happy , than the scenes opened in such let- ters . People , after living long in an atmosphere of affection , find they cannot comfortably breathe in any other ; and many on coming back into the world , must have been ...
... persons good and happy , than the scenes opened in such let- ters . People , after living long in an atmosphere of affection , find they cannot comfortably breathe in any other ; and many on coming back into the world , must have been ...
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... persons , after a certain time of life , set about writing a letter . We have heard of a sun - dial where the hours were told by the opening and shut- ting of particular flowers . A table framed according to the gradual development and ...
... persons , after a certain time of life , set about writing a letter . We have heard of a sun - dial where the hours were told by the opening and shut- ting of particular flowers . A table framed according to the gradual development and ...
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... person who has a taste for poetry . On the other hand , where personal character and habits form the principal subject of interest , a stranger stands too far off . This is a case where we have no security for fidelity in the outline ...
... person who has a taste for poetry . On the other hand , where personal character and habits form the principal subject of interest , a stranger stands too far off . This is a case where we have no security for fidelity in the outline ...
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... persons . They stood higher with Lamb than with most . Witness his letters to the man of many snipes ; ' the satisfaction with which his curious and epicurean eye ' travelled over the various con- tingencies of a Christmas table ; his ...
... persons . They stood higher with Lamb than with most . Witness his letters to the man of many snipes ; ' the satisfaction with which his curious and epicurean eye ' travelled over the various con- tingencies of a Christmas table ; his ...
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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.