The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 118A. Constable, 1863 |
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... object ! Moreover , according to the instruc- tions , only those women who had been active in their wicked courses , and that in a signal manner , were to be dismissed from the world in this pleasing manner , -upon which legal text we ...
... object ! Moreover , according to the instruc- tions , only those women who had been active in their wicked courses , and that in a signal manner , were to be dismissed from the world in this pleasing manner , -upon which legal text we ...
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... object of worship , is certainly written in the bond , and , in Parliamentary language , stands part of the question ... objects of consideration and anxiety in his military career , than the branching - horned oxen and the kneeless ...
... object of worship , is certainly written in the bond , and , in Parliamentary language , stands part of the question ... objects of consideration and anxiety in his military career , than the branching - horned oxen and the kneeless ...
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... objects , whether natural or artificial , as an arrange- ment more economical than the erection of fresh monuments . And here it has to be noted that the Druids have obtained some compensating consolation from this principle , since it ...
... objects , whether natural or artificial , as an arrange- ment more economical than the erection of fresh monuments . And here it has to be noted that the Druids have obtained some compensating consolation from this principle , since it ...
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... object through the political influence which he held in Britain , and was as undoubtedly Cæsar as any of the later emperors . The Roman language , government , and manners naturally disappeared before the self - willed Saxons ; yet not ...
... object through the political influence which he held in Britain , and was as undoubtedly Cæsar as any of the later emperors . The Roman language , government , and manners naturally disappeared before the self - willed Saxons ; yet not ...
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... objects ' to which the building was to be applied ; ' but since the Re- formation , with the exception of mere utilitarian designs , pro- bably not one truthful building has been erected in Europe . Still ornamental forms , although ...
... objects ' to which the building was to be applied ; ' but since the Re- formation , with the exception of mere utilitarian designs , pro- bably not one truthful building has been erected in Europe . Still ornamental forms , although ...
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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.