The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 118A. Constable, 1863 |
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... 6 This closes Mr. Napier's proof . We acknowledge he has raised difficulties which we have not been able entirely to lay ; but as it often happens that we cannot explain every 1863 . 25 Napier's Memorials of Claverhouse .
... 6 This closes Mr. Napier's proof . We acknowledge he has raised difficulties which we have not been able entirely to lay ; but as it often happens that we cannot explain every 1863 . 25 Napier's Memorials of Claverhouse .
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... entirely pass over all allusion to the defenders of heathenism , over whom their heroes triumphed . What is here maintained , however , is that there is nothing in them about Druids , and that wherever they allude under another name to ...
... entirely pass over all allusion to the defenders of heathenism , over whom their heroes triumphed . What is here maintained , however , is that there is nothing in them about Druids , and that wherever they allude under another name to ...
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... entirely and at once threw off the Roman laws , institutions , language , and social usages , but that they also at once adopted , and in its fullest developement , that social code of chivalry which did not dawn upon the rest of Europe ...
... entirely and at once threw off the Roman laws , institutions , language , and social usages , but that they also at once adopted , and in its fullest developement , that social code of chivalry which did not dawn upon the rest of Europe ...
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... entirely made their own . The same indulgence should in all fairness be extended to those who in this country have reverted to the forms which are as con- genial to us as ever the features of Roman art could be to Brunelleschi or ...
... entirely made their own . The same indulgence should in all fairness be extended to those who in this country have reverted to the forms which are as con- genial to us as ever the features of Roman art could be to Brunelleschi or ...
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... entirely opposite are the impressions conveyed by the one narrative and the other ! Or compare the account given by Louis Blanc of the return from Varennes with that which , unluckily for the austere Pétion , Mortimer - Ternaux has ...
... entirely opposite are the impressions conveyed by the one narrative and the other ! Or compare the account given by Louis Blanc of the return from Varennes with that which , unluckily for the austere Pétion , Mortimer - Ternaux has ...
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Page 418 - The danger was soon over. The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction. The whigs applauded every line in which liberty was mentioned, as a satire on the tories ; and the tories echoed every clap, to shew that the satire was unfelt.
Page 413 - I think Mr. St. John the greatest - -young man I ever knew; wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste; the best orator in the house of commons, admirable conversation, good nature, and good manners; generous, and a despiser of money.
Page 430 - Let us suppose in this, or in some other unfortunate country, an anti-minister, who thinks himself a person of so great and extensive parts, and of so many eminent qualifications, that he looks upon himself as the only person in the kingdom capable to conduct the public affairs of the nation...
Page 429 - I now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is reading your letter between two haycocks; but his attention is somewhat diverted, by casting his eyes on the clouds, not in admiration of what you say, but for fear of a shower.
Page 342 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 406 - But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring, and not spout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day, and remain dry the rest of the year.
Page 432 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Page 400 - The Life of Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, Secretary of State in the reign of Queen Anne. By Thomas Macknight, author of the " History of the Life and Times of Edmund Burke.
Page 413 - I am thinking what a veneration we used to have for Sir William Temple because he might have been Secretary of State at fifty ; and here is a young fellow hardly thirty in that employment.
Page 31 - I will not; I am one of Christ's children; let me go :' And then they returned her into the water, where she finished her warfare ; being a virgin martyr of eighteen years of age, suffering death for her refusing to swear the oath of abjuration, and hear the curats.