The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 118A. Constable, 1863 |
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Page 40
... Attempt to show that the Druids were the Priests of Oriental Colonies who emigrated from India , and were the ... attempted to perform this func- tion towards the persons who figure so conspicuously in the historical and other ...
... Attempt to show that the Druids were the Priests of Oriental Colonies who emigrated from India , and were the ... attempted to perform this func- tion towards the persons who figure so conspicuously in the historical and other ...
Page 42
... attempt to describe a known animal , but Cæsar's very distinctness enables us to know that he has described what never existed . Then he was thoroughly imbued with the haughty feeling of the true Roman , that it was beneath his dignity ...
... attempt to describe a known animal , but Cæsar's very distinctness enables us to know that he has described what never existed . Then he was thoroughly imbued with the haughty feeling of the true Roman , that it was beneath his dignity ...
Page 49
... attempt , however , to discover whether there is anywhere in literature a passage identifying an actual individual male Druid as having been engaged in any practical transaction , or as having spoken or been spoken to , there is another ...
... attempt , however , to discover whether there is anywhere in literature a passage identifying an actual individual male Druid as having been engaged in any practical transaction , or as having spoken or been spoken to , there is another ...
Page 56
... attempting an exposition of any portion of the extensive field of Druidical literature , we shall offer an extract from an impartial abridgement of its principal fea- tures . In quoting a passage from the Encyclopedia Britannica , ' it ...
... attempting an exposition of any portion of the extensive field of Druidical literature , we shall offer an extract from an impartial abridgement of its principal fea- tures . In quoting a passage from the Encyclopedia Britannica , ' it ...
Page 64
... attempt to connect the native literature and traditions of the Welsh with something accepted within the pale of general knowledge , attaches itself to the name of Gildas , known to most people as the reputed author of one of the ...
... attempt to connect the native literature and traditions of the Welsh with something accepted within the pale of general knowledge , attaches itself to the name of Gildas , known to most people as the reputed author of one 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...
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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.