The National Review, Volumen2Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 |
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... subjects , or as devout Catholics the abominations of paganism , it is not to be expected that they would afford any very full or direct in- formation respecting the natives of the New World . This 44 The Spanish Conquest in America .
... subjects , or as devout Catholics the abominations of paganism , it is not to be expected that they would afford any very full or direct in- formation respecting the natives of the New World . This 44 The Spanish Conquest in America .
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... direct elucidation of the higher question of his moral and religious character and senti- ments . As to the former , we easily collect from the tenor of the narrative that he was a person of a naturally imperturbable temper ; even amid ...
... direct elucidation of the higher question of his moral and religious character and senti- ments . As to the former , we easily collect from the tenor of the narrative that he was a person of a naturally imperturbable temper ; even amid ...
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... direct line of the proportion . Young * dwelt much at first on this objection ; and afterwards , in a letter to Arago , he renews a similar expression of the difficulties he felt in another point of view : " If light has so great a ...
... direct line of the proportion . Young * dwelt much at first on this objection ; and afterwards , in a letter to Arago , he renews a similar expression of the difficulties he felt in another point of view : " If light has so great a ...
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... direct and retro- grade motions of their particles in the direction of the radius , with their concomitant condensations and rarefactions . And yet it is pos- sible to explain in this theory a transverse vibration , propagated also in ...
... direct and retro- grade motions of their particles in the direction of the radius , with their concomitant condensations and rarefactions . And yet it is pos- sible to explain in this theory a transverse vibration , propagated also in ...
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... direct relation to them . According to the principle of transverse vibrations , as investigated by Fresnel , a number of comprehensive formulas resulted , including the deduc- tion of Brewster's law of the polarising angle , as well as ...
... direct relation to them . According to the principle of transverse vibrations , as investigated by Fresnel , a number of comprehensive formulas resulted , including the deduc- tion of Brewster's law of the polarising angle , as well as ...
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Página 37 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Página 53 - All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Página 196 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Página 37 - But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Página 375 - The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction.
Página 358 - ... and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation: others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages and of worthies.
Página 391 - Helen thy Bridgewater vie, And these be sung till Granville's Myra die : Alas ! how little from the grave we claim ! Thou but preserv'st a face, and I a name.
Página 375 - He must see ordinary men as they appear in their ordinary business, and in their ordinary pleasures. He must mingle in the crowds of the exchange and the coffee-house.
Página 404 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Página 391 - Years following years, steal something every day, At last they steal us from ourselves away; In one our frolics, one amusements end, In one a mistress drops, in one a friend...