The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen138A. Constable, 1873 |
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... side of the tapestry , let us read Horace Walpole's caricature of these rustic gentry as they appeared to him , a ' beau , ' when occasionally obliged by hard fate to visit his father's acres in Norfolk : - ' Only imagine that I here ...
... side of the tapestry , let us read Horace Walpole's caricature of these rustic gentry as they appeared to him , a ' beau , ' when occasionally obliged by hard fate to visit his father's acres in Norfolk : - ' Only imagine that I here ...
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... sides to make head . Touching the decayed inland towns , they are countervailed ' with a surplusage of increase on those of the coast ; and the ' desolate walls in the moors have begotten a sevenfold race of ' cottages near the sea side ...
... sides to make head . Touching the decayed inland towns , they are countervailed ' with a surplusage of increase on those of the coast ; and the ' desolate walls in the moors have begotten a sevenfold race of ' cottages near the sea side ...
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... sides in the great quarrel of the seventeenth century . Richard , of Midelney , Roundhead , was a member of the Somerset Committee , and signed certain reports in consequence of which his kinsmen of the opposite faction were brought ...
... sides in the great quarrel of the seventeenth century . Richard , of Midelney , Roundhead , was a member of the Somerset Committee , and signed certain reports in consequence of which his kinsmen of the opposite faction were brought ...
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... side to Moses and the Hebrew prophets , and on the other to the philosophers of Greece , and to the laws of Rome . The duration of the thirty - three dynasties of Egypt , down to the termination of the independent existence of the ...
... side to Moses and the Hebrew prophets , and on the other to the philosophers of Greece , and to the laws of Rome . The duration of the thirty - three dynasties of Egypt , down to the termination of the independent existence of the ...
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... sides ; namely , that at the present time in the South the blacks are to a certain extent masters of the whites . In some States they assert their power , in others they form the majority of the Govern- ment ; everywhere they possess ...
... sides ; namely , that at the present time in the South the blacks are to a certain extent masters of the whites . In some States they assert their power , in others they form the majority of the Govern- ment ; everywhere they possess ...
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Página 549 - Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth ; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Página 551 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Página 10 - ... will greatly modify this estimate. Unlettered as he was and unpolished, he was still in some most important points a gentleman. He was a member of a proud and powerful aristocracy, and was distinguished by many both of the good and of the bad qualities which belong to aristocrats. His family pride was beyond that of a Talbot or a Howard. He knew the genealogies and coats of arms of all his neighbours, and could tell which of them had assumed supporters without any right, and which of them were...
Página 491 - House standing out of a speaking distance from another; .... We could see at every house a Tenter, and on almost every Tenter a piece of Cloth or Kersie or Shalloon.
Página 553 - Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Página 564 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Página 271 - It will further endeavour from time to time, by such means as crrcumstancea may require, to strengthen the Government of your Highness, to enable you to exercise with equity and with justice your rightful rule, and to transmit to your descendants all the dignities and honours of which you are the lawful possessor.
Página 186 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel 13 light. XV.— I WANDERED LONELY. 1804. I WANDERED lonely as a cloud...
Página 11 - I am so far from growing used to mankind by living amongst them, that my natural ferocity and wildness does but every day grow worse. They tire me, they fatigue me ; I don't know what to do with them ; I don't know what to say to them; I fling open the windows and fancy I want air ; and when I get by myself, I undress myself, and seem to have had people in my pockets, in my plaits, and on my shoulders!
Página 543 - Ever remember that thou art human, not merely a natural production ; ever remember that all others are human also, and, with all individual differences, the same as thou, having the same needs and claims as thyself; this is the sum and substance of morality.