The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen143A. Constable, 1876 |
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... become an active passion . He saw that the only adequate remedy was to enforce , with a high hand , order and obedience to law ; and to draft off a large portion of a population more than double what could be maintained in the country ...
... become an active passion . He saw that the only adequate remedy was to enforce , with a high hand , order and obedience to law ; and to draft off a large portion of a population more than double what could be maintained in the country ...
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... become Viscount Stair , special letters of remission passed the Great Seal in his favour . The letters ran : - ' His Majesty , considering that John Viscount of Stair hath been employed on his service for many years , and in several ...
... become Viscount Stair , special letters of remission passed the Great Seal in his favour . The letters ran : - ' His Majesty , considering that John Viscount of Stair hath been employed on his service for many years , and in several ...
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... become acquainted by their means with the feeling pervading the population , and the merits of a voluntary system resting on intelligence and not on the blind adhesion of youthful ignor- ance , rashness , or inexperience . We learn ...
... become acquainted by their means with the feeling pervading the population , and the merits of a voluntary system resting on intelligence and not on the blind adhesion of youthful ignor- ance , rashness , or inexperience . We learn ...
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... becomes evident that the condition of the army as regards the material point of supply of men for the ranks fills him with anxiety , and that he is not more satisfied with the state of things than any of the numerous critics who ...
... becomes evident that the condition of the army as regards the material point of supply of men for the ranks fills him with anxiety , and that he is not more satisfied with the state of things than any of the numerous critics who ...
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... become necessary owing to the Militia having been brought under the War Office instead of being under the Lord Lieutenant . If that Bill is passed , we shall then have before us in a convenient shape the whole of the law relating to the ...
... become necessary owing to the Militia having been brought under the War Office instead of being under the Lord Lieutenant . If that Bill is passed , we shall then have before us in a convenient shape the whole of the law relating to the ...
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Página 172 - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws, that made them, and lo, they are ! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a
Página 172 - Consider it well ; each tone of our scale in itself is nought ; It is everywhere in the world—loud, soft, and all is said : Give it to me to use ! I mix it with two in my thought, And there ! ye have seen and heard ; consider and bow the
Página 581 - who are the same in wealth and in " poverty, in glory and in obscurity." Great as were the honours and possessions which Macaulay acquired by his pen, all who knew him were well aware that the titles and rewards, which he gained by his own works, were as nothing in the
Página 127 - that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament.
Página 581 - except himself to speak. He has told us how his debt to them was incalculable ; how they guided him to truth; how they filled his mind with noble and graceful images; how they stood by him in all vicissitudes,—comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, " the old friends who are
Página 438 - no goods or commodities whatever, of the growth, production, or manufacture of Asia, Africa, or America, should be imported either into England or Ireland or any of the plantations of Great Britain, except in Britishbuilt ships, owned by British subjects, and of which the master and three-fourths of the crew belonged to that country
Página 568 - But he saw on Palatinus The white porch of his home, And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the walls of
Página 569 - materially depends upon the temper in which the search for it is instituted and conducted." ' How much this letter pleased Macaulay is indicated by the fact of his having kept it unburned : a compliment which, except in this single instance, he never paid to any of his correspondents.
Página 580 - History will have been printed and sold in the United Kingdom alone.' Caring little for money, except in so far as he was able to make a liberal and generous use of it, Macaulay enjoyed the power his new opulence had conferred on him. Until he was fifty-two years of age, he had never had a
Página 497 - was thrown out of gear. The scarcity of hands made it difficult for the minor tenants to perform the services due for their lands, and only a temporary abandonment of half the rent by the landowners induced the farmers to refrain from the abandonment of their farms.