Contributions to the North British and Edinburgh reviews, 1844-1874 [by J. Moncreiff. 21 extracts to which a gen. title and contents have been prefixed]. |
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... course , and some considerable blunders ; abundance of indiscretions , especially in the earlier Num- bers ; and far too many excesses , both of party zeal , overweening con- fidence , and intemperate blame . But with all these ...
... course , and some considerable blunders ; abundance of indiscretions , especially in the earlier Num- bers ; and far too many excesses , both of party zeal , overweening con- fidence , and intemperate blame . But with all these ...
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... errors of opinion which appear so often to withhold men from the path of their duty — or to array them in foolish and fatal hostility to each other . I cannot , of course 266 Lord Jeffrey's Contributions to the Edinburgh Review .
... errors of opinion which appear so often to withhold men from the path of their duty — or to array them in foolish and fatal hostility to each other . I cannot , of course 266 Lord Jeffrey's Contributions to the Edinburgh Review .
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... course to steer ; but from the first , liberty was their aim , and they speedily guided their bark into the true current . They erected a noble bulwark against tyranny and oppression in all quarters , fearless of the frowns of the great ...
... course to steer ; but from the first , liberty was their aim , and they speedily guided their bark into the true current . They erected a noble bulwark against tyranny and oppression in all quarters , fearless of the frowns of the great ...
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... course of deduction on which his prognostics were founded . It is needless to observe , that his estimate of the great military leader of France must have suffered as much modifica tion by the lapse of years , as his admiration for the ...
... course of deduction on which his prognostics were founded . It is needless to observe , that his estimate of the great military leader of France must have suffered as much modifica tion by the lapse of years , as his admiration for the ...
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... course more unworthy or mischievous than , after a long period of successful exertion has swept away intolerable abuse , to look back with a milk - and- 6 water charity on the sinners and their sins - to 1857 . 235 Scottish Lawyers and ...
... course more unworthy or mischievous than , after a long period of successful exertion has swept away intolerable abuse , to look back with a milk - and- 6 water charity on the sinners and their sins - to 1857 . 235 Scottish Lawyers and ...
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Página 265 - A neutral Government is bound — First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace...
Página 582 - Secondly, not to permit or suffer either belligerent to make use of its ports or waters as the. base of naval operations against the other, or for the purpose of the renewal or augmentation of military supplies or arms, or the recruitment of men. Thirdly, to exercise due diligence in its own ports and waters, and, as to all persons within its jurisdiction, to prevent any violation of the foregoing obligations and duties.
Página 250 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes: How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own.
Página 265 - Queen, and the others respectively by the President of the United States, the King of Italy, the President of the Swiss Confederation, and the Emperor of Brazil.
Página 582 - But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.
Página 262 - That Prelacy, and the superiority of any office in the Church above Presbyters, is, and hath been, a great and insupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people, ever since the Reformation, they having been reformed from Popery by Presbyters, and, therefore, ought to be abolished.
Página 272 - due diligence" referred to in the first and third of the said rules ought to be exercised by neutral governments in exact proportion to the risks to which either of the belligerents may be exposed, from a failure to fulfil the obligations of neutrality on their part...
Página 184 - Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannonshot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.
Página 209 - His eyes vacant and spiritless ; and the corpulence of his whole person was far better fitted to communicate the idea of a turtle-eating alderman than of a refined philosopher.
Página 279 - Europe have reason to be thankful, that he ' went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...