The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 116A. Constable, 1862 |
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Page 63
... reason why I am anxious for a diversion on the eastern coast . ' ( Vol . vii . p . 318. ) It is not surprising that the anger of Wellington should have been aroused at such treatment as this , though at no time in the campaign of 1810 ...
... reason why I am anxious for a diversion on the eastern coast . ' ( Vol . vii . p . 318. ) It is not surprising that the anger of Wellington should have been aroused at such treatment as this , though at no time in the campaign of 1810 ...
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... reasons for which alone history is worth studying . The field is vast , and , doubtless , it has great attractions . It is something to be able to connect the dim traditions of distant ages with the conclusions of geology and the ...
... reasons for which alone history is worth studying . The field is vast , and , doubtless , it has great attractions . It is something to be able to connect the dim traditions of distant ages with the conclusions of geology and the ...
Page 87
... reason for thinking that Cheops built it ; but if we find that Cheops is assigned to three several dynasties , we cannot determine the time of its erection unless the pyramid attests its era . If the criticism of Sir Cornewall Lewis ...
... reason for thinking that Cheops built it ; but if we find that Cheops is assigned to three several dynasties , we cannot determine the time of its erection unless the pyramid attests its era . If the criticism of Sir Cornewall Lewis ...
Page 93
... reason at all , ) the conclusions drawn by astronomers from their premisses were strictly logical . They were all of them efforts to explain the phenomena of the heavens ; and if they succeeded in explaining any , it was a positive ...
... reason at all , ) the conclusions drawn by astronomers from their premisses were strictly logical . They were all of them efforts to explain the phenomena of the heavens ; and if they succeeded in explaining any , it was a positive ...
Page 95
... appeared to contradict both our reason and the evidence of our senses . It is natural to conceive that a revolving body is influenced by that round which it turns 1862. Sir G. C. Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients . 95.
... appeared to contradict both our reason and the evidence of our senses . It is natural to conceive that a revolving body is influenced by that round which it turns 1862. Sir G. C. Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients . 95.
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Page 552 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was.
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Page 562 - And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State ; and the Union shall be perpetual. Nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to, in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Page 552 - I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the Colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save this Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 134 - At length, I well remember, after a conversation in the open air, at the root of an old tree at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the vale of Keston, I resolved to give notice, on a fit occasion, in the House of Commons, of my intention to bring the subject forward.