The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 116A. Constable, 1862 |
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Page 86
... knowledge can be attained , and not to waste the time of writers and readers in vain endeavours to determine facts of which no credible testimony exists , and of which the memory has perished . Researches into ancient history , which ...
... knowledge can be attained , and not to waste the time of writers and readers in vain endeavours to determine facts of which no credible testimony exists , and of which the memory has perished . Researches into ancient history , which ...
Page 87
... knowledge of Egyptian history before the Dodecarchy must be abandoned . To minds in which the critical faculty is weak there is much to impart to these con- structive accounts the semblance of real history . The dates are precise ; the ...
... knowledge of Egyptian history before the Dodecarchy must be abandoned . To minds in which the critical faculty is weak there is much to impart to these con- structive accounts the semblance of real history . The dates are precise ; the ...
Page 88
... knowledge for the reality , and , by fettering all honest thought , to check all genuine pro- gress . The course of recent criticism has stripped of historical certainty many events which by the scholars of a former age were never ...
... knowledge for the reality , and , by fettering all honest thought , to check all genuine pro- gress . The course of recent criticism has stripped of historical certainty many events which by the scholars of a former age were never ...
Page 90
... knowledge of a recurring mea- sure of time Sir Cornewall Lewis remarks that the poet still appears ignorant of any calendar of months , by which the time of year can be described . If the later poets identify Apollo with Helios , they ...
... knowledge of a recurring mea- sure of time Sir Cornewall Lewis remarks that the poet still appears ignorant of any calendar of months , by which the time of year can be described . If the later poets identify Apollo with Helios , they ...
Page 91
... knowledge of the earlier Greek astronomers . To his disciple Anaximander is ascribed the dis- covery of a gnomon or sun - dial , showing the time , the seasons , solstices , and equinoxes . By Anaximenes the chain of wild and arbitrary ...
... knowledge of the earlier Greek astronomers . To his disciple Anaximander is ascribed the dis- covery of a gnomon or sun - dial , showing the time , the seasons , solstices , and equinoxes . By Anaximenes the chain of wild and arbitrary ...
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Page 389 - Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written; Which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Page 552 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, 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.
Page 393 - Flow thro' our deeds and make them pure, That we may lift from out of dust A voice as unto him that hears, A cry above the...
Page 552 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was.
Page 127 - Their first step was to circulate among the Members of the House of Commons a paper entitled ' The Case of the Protestant Dissenters with reference to the Corporation and Test Acts,' in which they more especially laboured to distinguish their case from that of the Roman Catholics.
Page 562 - And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State ; and the Union shall be perpetual. Nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to, in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Page 552 - I would do it; 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 this Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 134 - At length, I well remember, after a conversation in the open air, at the root of an old tree at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the vale of Keston, I resolved to give notice, on a fit occasion, in the House of Commons, of my intention to bring the subject forward.