 | Konrad Gross, Meinhard Winkgens - 1994 - 432 pages
...gemäßigten Fortschrittsoptimismus, wie er auch den schottischen Aufklärern, etwa Ferguson, eigen war: But the change, though steadily and rapidly progressive,...now distant point from which we have been drifted. (476) Der historische Prozeß wird also im Sinne einer in der Neuzeit zunehmenden geschichtlichen Metaphorik... | |
 | Terence Brown - 1996 - 318 pages
...Scotland has literally been left behind by the current of history: the change [to the present modernity], though steadily and rapidly progressive, has, nevertheless,...now distant point from which we have been drifted. l2 The opposition between the Highland world or community and history, adumbrated in Waverley, has... | |
 | Saree Makdisi - 1998 - 272 pages
...The political and economical effects of these changes have been traced by Ix1rd Selkirk with great accuracy. But the change, though steadily and rapidly...now distant point from which we have been drifted. Such of the present generation who can recollect the last twenty or twenty-five years of the eighteenth... | |
 | Fabian Lampart - 2002 - 416 pages
...Selkirkshire' und 'Clerk of the Court' sei kompromißloser Vertreter aufklärerischer Fortschrittsideale. But the change, though steadily and rapidly progressive,...progress we have made until we fix our eye on the now-distant point from which we set out. Such of the present generation äs can recollect the last... | |
 | Theodore Ziolkowski - 2004 - 196 pages
...Elizabeth's time. (340) These vast changes, he continues, though steady and progressive, have been gradual. "Like those who drift down the stream of a deep and...fix our eye on the now distant point from which we set out." Accordingly, his novel recording great events "Sixty Years Since" looks back at the past... | |
 | Tessa Morris-Suzuki - 2005 - 300 pages
...transience. But for Scott, this grasp of the passing of time has taken on a quite different meaning: Like those who drift down the stream of a deep and...now distant point from which we have been drifted. Such of the present generation as can recollect the last twenty or twenty-five years of the eighteenth... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 2006 - 486 pages
...are from those of Queen Elizabeth's time, The political and economical effects of these changes have been traced by Lord Selkirk with great precision and...now distant point from which we have been drifted - Such of the present - generation as can recollect the last twenty or twenty-five years of the eighteenth... | |
 | Anne Holden Rønning, Lene Johannessen - 2007 - 278 pages
...Describing how an influx of wealth and commerce has transformed Scotland since Culloden, he observes: But the change, though steadily and rapidly progressive,...progress we have made until we fix our eye on the now-distant point from which we set out.11 Far from the dirt and noise of industry, this progress flows... | |
 | Evan Gottlieb - 2007 - 282 pages
...though steadily and rapidly progressive, has, nevertheless, been gradual; and like those who drift down a deep and smooth river, we are not aware of the progress...eye on the now distant point from -which -we have drifted. (340) Here, the chronotope of the road is replaced by the image of the river, a spatial figure... | |
 | Gerald Ernest Paul Gillespie, Manfred Engel, Bernard Dieterle - 2008 - 772 pages
...are from those of Queen Elizabeth's time. The political and economical effects of these changes have been traced by Lord Selkirk with great precision and...progress we have made until we fix our eye on the now-distant point from which we set out. Such of the present generation as can recollect the last twenty... | |
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But the change, though steadily and rapidly progressive, has nevertheless been gradual; and, like those who drift down the stream of a deep and smooth river, we are not aware of the progress we have made until we fix our eye on the now distant point from... 
