The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 218A. Constable, 1913 |
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... original meaning . Copyholds and other customary tenures , whose possessors were able to maintain their status against attempts at con- version , thus acquired a large capital value . The condition of the smaller tenants had improved ...
... original meaning . Copyholds and other customary tenures , whose possessors were able to maintain their status against attempts at con- version , thus acquired a large capital value . The condition of the smaller tenants had improved ...
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... original level , and therefore Ricardo's law tells as much against as for trade unionism . Apart from the law as defined by Ricardo , and with his assumptions about population , the advocates of trade unions may F 2 1913 67 TRADE UNIONS ...
... original level , and therefore Ricardo's law tells as much against as for trade unionism . Apart from the law as defined by Ricardo , and with his assumptions about population , the advocates of trade unions may F 2 1913 67 TRADE UNIONS ...
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... original by its generally attractive appearance , if he had lived to see it . The Roman life and manners pictured in these volumes is that of the State as well as of the individual , of the aristocratic and wealthy classes of the ...
... original by its generally attractive appearance , if he had lived to see it . The Roman life and manners pictured in these volumes is that of the State as well as of the individual , of the aristocratic and wealthy classes of the ...
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... original , the ancestor of the romances of the fourth and fifth centuries which we still possess , of which the ' Satyricon ' would be a parody ; others have seen in it , with more probability , an ingenious method of stringing together ...
... original , the ancestor of the romances of the fourth and fifth centuries which we still possess , of which the ' Satyricon ' would be a parody ; others have seen in it , with more probability , an ingenious method of stringing together ...
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... original text , or is paraphrase permissible , and , if per- missible , within what limits may it be adopted ? In deciding which of these courses to pursue , the translator stands between Scylla and Charybdis . If he departs too widely ...
... original text , or is paraphrase permissible , and , if per- missible , within what limits may it be adopted ? In deciding which of these courses to pursue , the translator stands between Scylla and Charybdis . If he departs too widely ...
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Seite 283 - old decayed serving-men and tapsters, and such kind of ' fellows ; and their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, ' and persons of quality : do you think that the spirits of such ' base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentle' men that have honour and courage and resolution in them
Seite 31 - It is good also not to try experiments in States except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident : and well to beware that it be the reformation which draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation ; and lastly that the novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be held for a
Seite 114 - of translation.' ' It were as wise [he said] to cast a violet ' into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle ' of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language ' into another the creations of a poet.
Seite 269 - E se ben ti ricordi, e vedi lume, Vedrai te simigliante a quella inferma, Che non può trovar posa in su le piume. Ma con dar volta suo dolore scherma.
Seite 206 - of the Democratic party that the federal government has ' no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties, ' except for the purposes of revenue only,' and although the Republicans ' reaffirmed the American doctrine of
Seite 121 - Aurengzebe ' embody the idea of Macedonius in epigrammatic and felicitous verse : ' Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow's falser than the former day.
Seite 116 - And thou, dost thou disdain to yield thy breath, Whose very life is little more than death ? More than one-half by lazy sleep possest, And when awake, thy soul but nods at best, Day-dreams and sickly thoughts revolving in thy breast. Eternal troubles haunt thy anxious mind, Whose cause and
Seite 202 - : ' Brief, on a flying night, From the shaken tower, A flock of bells take flight. And go with the hour. ' Like birds from the cote to the gales, Abrupt—O hark ! A fleet of bells set sails, And go with the dark. ' Sudden the cold airs swing. Alone, aloud, A verse of bells takes wing And flies with the cloud.
Seite 118 - To cite another case, the following lines of ' Paradise Lost ' may be compared with the treatment accorded by Euripides to the same subject : 'Oh, why did God Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the World at once With men as Angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Seite 365 - it. Sir, as you would a guinea, into small coin ?—which done—let the father of confusion puzzle you if he can ; or put a different idea either into your head, or your reader's head, if he knows how.