The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 118A. Constable, 1863 |
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... writer whom he cordially hates , but whom he has nevertheless carefully studied ; and in doing so may have become infected with his faults , as a man may catch contagion from an enemy . But Mr. Napier has high pretensions as a historian ...
... writer whom he cordially hates , but whom he has nevertheless carefully studied ; and in doing so may have become infected with his faults , as a man may catch contagion from an enemy . But Mr. Napier has high pretensions as a historian ...
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... writers , and stripped of the con- cretions which have grown upon it , as upon every tale of the kind , is shortly this : -In the year 1685 , known in Scotland as the " killing time , ' an aged widow , named Lauchlison or M'Lauch- lane ...
... writers , and stripped of the con- cretions which have grown upon it , as upon every tale of the kind , is shortly this : -In the year 1685 , known in Scotland as the " killing time , ' an aged widow , named Lauchlison or M'Lauch- lane ...
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... writers of persons being offered their lives if they would say ' God save the King . ' But we are also aware that when this was complied with , as it was in some cases , other tests were used , in the form of such questions as this ...
... writers of persons being offered their lives if they would say ' God save the King . ' But we are also aware that when this was complied with , as it was in some cases , other tests were used , in the form of such questions as this ...
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... writer till now has ever denied the fact . In not one of the countless letters , pamphlets , diaries , histories , which have been published from the year 1685 down to the year 1862 , has there been any specific denial of the facts ...
... writer till now has ever denied the fact . In not one of the countless letters , pamphlets , diaries , histories , which have been published from the year 1685 down to the year 1862 , has there been any specific denial of the facts ...
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... writers of fiction , who have thrown a legendary interest around him which he does not deserve . Mr. Napier is fond of comparing him with Montrose . He is guilty of foul injustice in making the comparison . Montrose had some of the ...
... writers of fiction , who have thrown a legendary interest around him which he does not deserve . Mr. Napier is fond of comparing him with Montrose . He is guilty of foul injustice in making the comparison . Montrose had some of the ...
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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.