Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Band 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 |
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... considered as light reading by Hilpa and Shalum . But unhappily the life of man is now threescore years and ten ; and we cannot but think it somewhat unfair in Dr. Nares to demand from us so large a portion of so short an existence ...
... considered as light reading by Hilpa and Shalum . But unhappily the life of man is now threescore years and ten ; and we cannot but think it somewhat unfair in Dr. Nares to demand from us so large a portion of so short an existence ...
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... considered the popish rites as matters indifferent . Melancthon was one of these moderate persons , and appears , " says Dr. Nares , " to have gone greater lengths than any imputed to Lord Burleigh . " We should have thought this not ...
... considered the popish rites as matters indifferent . Melancthon was one of these moderate persons , and appears , " says Dr. Nares , " to have gone greater lengths than any imputed to Lord Burleigh . " We should have thought this not ...
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... considered as the foulest of treasons . The French emigrant saw nothing disgraceful in bringing Austrian and Prussian hussars to Paris . The Irish or Italian democrat saw no impropriety in serving the French Directory against his own ...
... considered as the foulest of treasons . The French emigrant saw nothing disgraceful in bringing Austrian and Prussian hussars to Paris . The Irish or Italian democrat saw no impropriety in serving the French Directory against his own ...
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... considered by the great body of their countrymen as wicked dis- turbers of the public peace . The account which Cardinal Bentivoglio gave of the state of religion in England , well deserves con- sideration . The zealous Catholics he ...
... considered by the great body of their countrymen as wicked dis- turbers of the public peace . The account which Cardinal Bentivoglio gave of the state of religion in England , well deserves con- sideration . The zealous Catholics he ...
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... now been for many generations considered as a truism rather than a paradox . Every boy has written on the thesis " Odisse quem læseris . ” Scarcely any lines in English poetry are better known than 36 LORD MAHON'S WAR OF.
... now been for many generations considered as a truism rather than a paradox . Every boy has written on the thesis " Odisse quem læseris . ” Scarcely any lines in English poetry are better known than 36 LORD MAHON'S WAR OF.
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 240 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Seite 37 - Forgiveness to the injured does belong ; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
Seite 262 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
Seite 475 - ... that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the sides.
Seite 189 - Lord," he said to the Duke of Devonshire, " I am sure that I can save this country, and that nobody else can.
Seite 426 - Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Seite 2 - ... occupies fifteen hundred inches cubic measure, and that it weighs sixty pounds avoirdupois. Such a book might, before the deluge, have been considered as light reading by Hilpa and Shalum.
Seite 357 - Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here; Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last.
Seite 209 - We find in it the diligence, the accuracy, and the judgment of Hallam, united to the vivacity and the colouring of Southey. A history of England, written throughout in this manner, would be the most fascinating book in the language. It would be more in request at the circulating libraries than the last novel.
Seite 371 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours : but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.