The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen66A. Constable, 1838 |
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... Court of Illyria ? You used to say , that the gallery was the best place of all for enjoying a play socially - that the relish of such exhibitions must be in proportion to the infrequency of going that the company we met there , not ...
... Court of Illyria ? You used to say , that the gallery was the best place of all for enjoying a play socially - that the relish of such exhibitions must be in proportion to the infrequency of going that the company we met there , not ...
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... Court , to read Lamb's . wild incendiary narrative of it by the glare . A gallows is a so- lemn thing to trifle with , even when it has charge of Fauntleroys and Thurtells . Notwithstanding his treatise on the inconve- ' nience of being ...
... Court , to read Lamb's . wild incendiary narrative of it by the glare . A gallows is a so- lemn thing to trifle with , even when it has charge of Fauntleroys and Thurtells . Notwithstanding his treatise on the inconve- ' nience of being ...
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... court to Edward , by sacrificing the independence of the Scottish crown ; which , as a competitor for that dignity , he ... courts of law had been regularly enrolled . With regard to the evidence furnished by * Scotichron . Vili . 4 ...
... court to Edward , by sacrificing the independence of the Scottish crown ; which , as a competitor for that dignity , he ... courts of law had been regularly enrolled . With regard to the evidence furnished by * Scotichron . Vili . 4 ...
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... court of Common Pleas to receive writs from Scotland , he as- signs as his reason , Quia regna Angliæ et Scotiæ , ratione ' superioris dominii quod in eodem regno Scotia obtinemus , benedicto altissimo , sunt conjuncta ; and in all his ...
... court of Common Pleas to receive writs from Scotland , he as- signs as his reason , Quia regna Angliæ et Scotiæ , ratione ' superioris dominii quod in eodem regno Scotia obtinemus , benedicto altissimo , sunt conjuncta ; and in all his ...
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... courts the ordinary standard of comparison and criticism applica- ble to such compositions . The startling improbability and accu- mulation of incidents which characterised his first youthful pro- duction have in a great measure ...
... courts the ordinary standard of comparison and criticism applica- ble to such compositions . The startling improbability and accu- mulation of incidents which characterised his first youthful pro- duction have in a great measure ...
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Página 169 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Página 185 - Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and...
Página 21 - I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments, as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
Página 163 - The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy but cannot disjoin them.
Página 172 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Página 21 - The wonder of these sights impels me into night-walks about her crowded streets, and I often shed tears in the motley Strand from fulness of joy at so much life. — All these emotions must be strange to you; so are your rural emotions to me. But consider, what must I have been doing all my life, not to have lent great portions of my heart with usury to such scenes?
Página 189 - Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
Página 172 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Página 16 - ... being in general readers of plays, were obliged to attend the more, and did attend, to what was going on on the stage, because a word lost would have been a chasm which it was impossible for them to fill up. With such reflections we consoled our pride then ; and I appeal to you whether as a woman I met generally with less attention and accommodation than I have done since in more expensive situations in the house.
Página 184 - He was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern. Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed ; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed.