Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best Articles in that Journal, from Its Commencement to the Present Time, Volumes 3-4Baudry's European Library, 1835 |
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... never could have been collected in the description of any Englishman , by one of his own fair coun- trywomen . La Rochefoucault , she says , was intriguing , supple , wary ; yet there never was a friend more open , more solid , or , who ...
... never could have been collected in the description of any Englishman , by one of his own fair coun- trywomen . La Rochefoucault , she says , was intriguing , supple , wary ; yet there never was a friend more open , more solid , or , who ...
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... never flourished as in later nations . The most esteemed of the orations of Demosthenes , are those in which he aspired at producing a sudden and vehement impression , at inflaming the minds of multitudes , and awakening all that was ...
... never flourished as in later nations . The most esteemed of the orations of Demosthenes , are those in which he aspired at producing a sudden and vehement impression , at inflaming the minds of multitudes , and awakening all that was ...
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... never expanded itself . The feebleness of his general speculations is indeed so remarkable , that the most wretched pam- phleteer of the present day would be ashamed of the trifling and absurd remarks of which the greater part of his ...
... never expanded itself . The feebleness of his general speculations is indeed so remarkable , that the most wretched pam- phleteer of the present day would be ashamed of the trifling and absurd remarks of which the greater part of his ...
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... never ascended beyond this in- ferior level ; and their endless and mischievous distinctions in grammar ( for they ... Never , " says Roger Bacon , speaking of his own times , " never was there such a show of wisdom , such exercises in ...
... never ascended beyond this in- ferior level ; and their endless and mischievous distinctions in grammar ( for they ... Never , " says Roger Bacon , speaking of his own times , " never was there such a show of wisdom , such exercises in ...
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... never resting between the extremes of laxity and rigour , —their credulity , their inconsistencies of conduct and opinion , and , worst of all , their forgeries and falsehoods , have already been so often and so ably ex- posed by ...
... never resting between the extremes of laxity and rigour , —their credulity , their inconsistencies of conduct and opinion , and , worst of all , their forgeries and falsehoods , have already been so often and so ably ex- posed by ...
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Page 416 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Page 338 - I am conscious of myself as the perceiving subject, and of an external reality as the object perceived ; and I am conscious of both existences in the same indivisible moment of intuition.
Page 105 - The thinking minds of all nations call for change. There is a deep-lying struggle in the whole fabric of society ; a boundless grinding collision of the New with the Old.
Page 374 - As long as boys and girls run about in the dirt, and trundle hoops together, they are both precisely alike. If you catch up one-half of these creatures, and train them to a particular set of actions and opinions, and the other half to a perfectly opposite set, of course their understandings will differ as one or the other sort of occupations has called this or that talent into action.
Page 147 - Parliament," says Mr. Hallam, " it may be said, I think, with not greater severity than truth, that scarce two or three public acts of justice, humanity, or generosity, and very few of political wisdom or courage, are recorded of them, from their quarrel with the King, to their expulsion by Cromwell.
Page 378 - ... varieties of that celebrated language. Then women have, of course, all ignorant men for enemies to their instruction, who being bound (as they think), in point of sex, to know more, are not well pleased, in point of fact, to know less. But among men of sense and liberal politeness, a woman who has successfully cultivated her mind, without diminishing the gentleness and propriety of her manners, is always sure to meet with a respect and attention bordering upon enthusiasm.
Page 93 - Were we required to characterise this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery in every outward and inward sense of that word; the age which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, teaches and practises the great art of adapting means to ends.
Page 192 - ... on the mountains in summer, and the tales and the sports that amuse the little groups that are frozen into their vast and trackless valleys in the winter. Add to all this, the traces of vast and obscure antiquity that are impressed on the language and the habits of the people, and on the cliffs, and caves, and gulfy torrents of the land ; and the solemn and touching reflection, perpetually recurring, of the weakness and insignificance of perishable man, whose generations thus pass away into oblivion,...
Page 293 - Few books have contributed more to rectify prejudice, to undermine established errors, to diffuse a just mode of thinking, to excite a fearless spirit of inquiry, and yet to contain it within the boundaries which Nature has prescribed to the human understanding.
Page 105 - He, who has been born, has been a First Man ;' has had lying before his young eyes, and as yet unhardened into scientific shapes, a world as plastic, infinite, divine, as lay before the eyes of Adam himself. If Mechanism, like some glass bell, encircles and imprisons us ; if the soul looks forth on a fair heavenly country which it cannot reach, and pines, and in its scanty atmosphere is ready to perish, — yet the bell is but of glass ; 'one bold stroke to break the bell in pieces, and thou art...