The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 98A. Constable, 1853 |
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... practical scope . She was probably very willing to make mankind happy under a beneficent de- spotism ; her tendencies , as an Austrian writer describes them , with some affectation but some truth , were ' idyllisch - autocra- tisch ...
... practical scope . She was probably very willing to make mankind happy under a beneficent de- spotism ; her tendencies , as an Austrian writer describes them , with some affectation but some truth , were ' idyllisch - autocra- tisch ...
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... practical necessity of unity of action on the part of the central power . The obstinate and compact strength opposed by Austria to the invasions of Napoleon , is mainly attributed by some to the solidity which his reforms communicated ...
... practical necessity of unity of action on the part of the central power . The obstinate and compact strength opposed by Austria to the invasions of Napoleon , is mainly attributed by some to the solidity which his reforms communicated ...
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... practical question for our day is , whether the events to which we refer have increased that mutual repulsion between the several races through which the strength of the central government is now mainly preserved , or whether they have ...
... practical question for our day is , whether the events to which we refer have increased that mutual repulsion between the several races through which the strength of the central government is now mainly preserved , or whether they have ...
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... acknowledgment of error in his practical measures . See vol . ii . pp . 49. 154. , and more fully , and in general terms , Ib . p . 301 , 302 . Lord Grey , in re - travelling over the ground 62 July , Lord Grey's Colonial Administration .
... acknowledgment of error in his practical measures . See vol . ii . pp . 49. 154. , and more fully , and in general terms , Ib . p . 301 , 302 . Lord Grey , in re - travelling over the ground 62 July , Lord Grey's Colonial Administration .
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... practical manual of colo- nial politics , has never hitherto been executed , even if it has ever been planned . Lord Grey , a practical statesman , but at the same time well versed in the principles of colonial govern- ment , has been ...
... practical manual of colo- nial politics , has never hitherto been executed , even if it has ever been planned . Lord Grey , a practical statesman , but at the same time well versed in the principles of colonial govern- ment , has been ...
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Seite 44 - Sanskrit works. I have conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues. I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.
Seite 122 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Seite 44 - The question now before us is simply whether, when it is in our power to teach this language, we shall teach languages in which by universal confession there are no books on any subject which deserve to be compared to our own...
Seite 148 - I did as plainly see his overthrow chained as it were by destiny to that journey, as it is possible for a man to ground a judgment upon future contingents.
Seite 146 - ... you had your asking — you had choice of times — you had power and authority more ample than ever any had, or ever shall have.
Seite 172 - ... to countenance and inculcate the principles of humanity and general benevolence, public and private charity, industry, and frugality, honesty and punctuality in their dealings ; sincerity, good humor and all social affections and generous sentiments among the people.
Seite 150 - Princes' actions must have no abrupt periods or conclusions, but otherwise I would think, that if you had my Lord of Essex here with a white staff in his hand, as my Lord of Leicester had, and continued him still about you for society to yourself, and for an honour and ornament to your attendance and Court in the eyes of your people, and in the eyes of foreign Embassadors, then were he in his right element...
Seite 44 - History, we shall countenance, at the public expense medical doctrines which would disgrace an English Farrier Astronomy, which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school - History, abounding with kings thirty feet high, and reigns thirty thousand years long - and Geography, made up of seas of treacle and seas of butter.
Seite 357 - I thanked every one for their excellent conduct, and cautioned them, as we should, in all probability, soon appear before our Maker, to enter his presence as men resigned to their fate.
Seite 43 - All parties seem to be agreed on one point, that the dialects commonly spoken among the natives of this part of India contain neither Literary nor scientific information, and are, moreover so poor and rude that, until they are enriched from some other quarter, it will not be easy to translate any valuable work into them.