The Quarterly Review, Band 48William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero J. Murray, 1832 |
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... reason warns us from this enchanted ground , on the active and inquisitive mind such warnings are generally lost . Even the grave historian is perpetually excited by the hope of discovering some of the leading facts in the early ...
... reason warns us from this enchanted ground , on the active and inquisitive mind such warnings are generally lost . Even the grave historian is perpetually excited by the hope of discovering some of the leading facts in the early ...
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... reasons may , how- ever , be suggested , besides the almost national zeal of the author for the brethren of his adoption , to account for the interminable length into which he has drawn out their annals . The materials of the work are ...
... reasons may , how- ever , be suggested , besides the almost national zeal of the author for the brethren of his adoption , to account for the interminable length into which he has drawn out their annals . The materials of the work are ...
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... reason that they are immediately beneficial ! We will take a brief view of his labours in this course . 6 6 The work , very properly , begins by calling attention to the cir- cumstances which influence the supply of food to a community ...
... reason that they are immediately beneficial ! We will take a brief view of his labours in this course . 6 6 The work , very properly , begins by calling attention to the cir- cumstances which influence the supply of food to a community ...
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... reason to presume from this that the pressure would continue , if the whole uncultivated world were opened to the agriculture of the same population ? But our author says , ' the question may be made a matter of computation ...
... reason to presume from this that the pressure would continue , if the whole uncultivated world were opened to the agriculture of the same population ? But our author says , ' the question may be made a matter of computation ...
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... reason to suppose the proportion of cultivable to non - cultivable surface to be less in our colonies than at home . We know , indeed , many of their extensive savannahs and primeval forests to be more fertile than our very best soils ...
... reason to suppose the proportion of cultivable to non - cultivable surface to be less in our colonies than at home . We know , indeed , many of their extensive savannahs and primeval forests to be more fertile than our very best soils ...
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Seite 61 - That every man in want is knave or fool : " God cannot love" (says Blunt, with tearless eyes) " The wretch he starves" — and piously denies: But the good bishop, with a meeker air, Admits, and leaves them, Providence's care.
Seite 93 - O ye, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean lore, What rapture ! could ye seize Some Theban fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted, scroll Of pure Simonides.
Seite 89 - Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve ! Where no hope is, life's a warning That only serves to make us grieve, When we are old...
Seite 551 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Seite 184 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Seite 124 - He shall not strive, nor cry, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
Seite 116 - Eternal God ! on what are thine enemies intent ! What are those enterprises of guilt and horror, that, for the safety of their performers, require to be enveloped in a darkness which the eye of Heaven must not penetrate!" — he asked, "Did I say penetrate, sir, when I preached it?
Seite 104 - ... or those who have opposed him, will be alike forgotten. Distinguished merit will ever rise superior to oppression, and will draw lustre from reproach. The vapours which gather round the rising sun, and follow it in its course, seldom fail at the close of it to form a magnificent theatre for its reception, and to invest with variegated tints, and with a softened effulgence, the luminary which they cannot hide...
Seite 116 - Eternal God, on what are thine enemies intent! What are those enterprises of guilt and horror, that, for the safety of their performers, require to be enveloped in a darkness which the eye of heaven must not pierce ! Miserable men ! Proud of being the offspring of chance ; in love with universal disorder ; whose happiness is involved in the belief of there being no witness to their designs, and who are at ease only because they suppose themselves inhabitants of a forsaken and fatherless world...
Seite 115 - Christianity ; if by an appeal to authority, what have our adversaries to oppose to those great names ? Where are the infidels of such pure, uncontaminated morals, unshaken probity, and extended benevolence, that we should be in danger of being seduced into impiety by their example ? Into what obscure recesses of misery, into what dungeons have their philanthropists penetrated, to lighten...