The Quarterly Review, Volume 173William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1891 - English literature |
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... side . ' The Emperor , ' the name by which he was known in the trade , and much a gentleman , ' - these half - dozen words describe with terse felicity the position and character of the late John Murray , who was for many years ...
... side . ' The Emperor , ' the name by which he was known in the trade , and much a gentleman , ' - these half - dozen words describe with terse felicity the position and character of the late John Murray , who was for many years ...
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... side a splendid liberality and an admiration for genius , fervent and generous , but not blind to its errors or servile to its caprices ; on the other , good humour , a surprising self - restraint , amounting to docility , and a genuine ...
... side a splendid liberality and an admiration for genius , fervent and generous , but not blind to its errors or servile to its caprices ; on the other , good humour , a surprising self - restraint , amounting to docility , and a genuine ...
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... side by side . ' The position which Murray had now attained in society is alluded to in a letter of Lockhart's : To all these people - Croker as well as the rest - John Murray is of much more importance than they ever can be to him if ...
... side by side . ' The position which Murray had now attained in society is alluded to in a letter of Lockhart's : To all these people - Croker as well as the rest - John Murray is of much more importance than they ever can be to him if ...
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... side lights thrown upon many of the writers who figure prominently in the pages of the Memoir ' are full of vivid suggestion . Particularly striking are the illustrations of the characters of Southey and Coleridge . Of the former we get ...
... side lights thrown upon many of the writers who figure prominently in the pages of the Memoir ' are full of vivid suggestion . Particularly striking are the illustrations of the characters of Southey and Coleridge . Of the former we get ...
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... side , however , I feel that it would be inconsistent with my own character to embarrass you any longer , and I therefore release your Lordship at once from any promise or supposed understanding whatever regarding this publication , and ...
... side , however , I feel that it would be inconsistent with my own character to embarrass you any longer , and I therefore release your Lordship at once from any promise or supposed understanding whatever regarding this publication , and ...
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Page 358 - Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayer of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. Woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom...
Page 358 - NEITHER PARTY EXPECTED FOR THE WAR THE MAGNITUDE OR THE DURATION WHICH IT HAS ALREADY ATTAINED. NEITHER ANTICIPATED THAT THE CAUSE OF THE CONFLICT MIGHT CEASE WITH OR EVEN BEFORE THE CONFLICT ITSELF SHOULD ' CEASE. EACH LOOKED FOR AN EASIER TRIUMPH AND A RESULT LESS FUNDAMENTAL AND ASTOUNDING.
Page 341 - I would do it; and 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 the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 358 - If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the...
Page 359 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said : " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 91 - Do not you think that the tone of England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion...
Page 358 - Fondly do we hope— fervently do we pray— that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the...
Page 337 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 338 - Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly or indirectly, interfere with the slaves, or with them about the slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears. The South would be in no more danger in this respect than it was in the days of Washington.
Page 336 - But my opinion is, that no State can in any way lawfully get out of the Union without the consent of the others ; and that it is the duty of the President and other government functionaries to run the machine as it is.