The National Review, Volume 2R. Theobald, 1856 |
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Pagina ii
... French of Père Pierre Joseph d'Orleans . To which is added , Father Pereira's Journey into Tartary ; from the Dutch of Nicolaas Witsen . Translated and edited by the Earl of Ellesmere . With an Introduction by R. H. Major , Esq . A ...
... French of Père Pierre Joseph d'Orleans . To which is added , Father Pereira's Journey into Tartary ; from the Dutch of Nicolaas Witsen . Translated and edited by the Earl of Ellesmere . With an Introduction by R. H. Major , Esq . A ...
Pagina 8
... had exhausted all that could be learned in English of the Arabs and Persians , the Tartars and Turks ; and the same ardour urged me to guess at the French of d'Herbelot , and to construe the barbarous Latin of Pocock's 8 Edward Gibbon .
... had exhausted all that could be learned in English of the Arabs and Persians , the Tartars and Turks ; and the same ardour urged me to guess at the French of d'Herbelot , and to construe the barbarous Latin of Pocock's 8 Edward Gibbon .
Pagina 15
... French Protestant minister . After the easy income , complete independence , and unlimited credit of an English un- dergraduate , he was thrown into a foreign country , deprived , as he says , by ignorance of the language both of ...
... French Protestant minister . After the easy income , complete independence , and unlimited credit of an English un- dergraduate , he was thrown into a foreign country , deprived , as he says , by ignorance of the language both of ...
Pagina 16
... French library - not ill - stored in the recent publica- tions of that age — of which he allowed his pupil the continual use . It was as impossible to open any of them and not come in contact with infidelity , as to come to England and ...
... French library - not ill - stored in the recent publica- tions of that age — of which he allowed his pupil the continual use . It was as impossible to open any of them and not come in contact with infidelity , as to come to England and ...
Pagina 17
... French sums , and tedious theories , to which this Genevese beauty , however , devoted much of her attention . But this was in a later time : Gibbon was , it seems , her first love ; -history on Mondays , finance only on Tuesdays ...
... French sums , and tedious theories , to which this Genevese beauty , however , devoted much of her attention . But this was in a later time : Gibbon was , it seems , her first love ; -history on Mondays , finance only on Tuesdays ...
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Pagina 35 - All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Pagina 19 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Pagina 465 - CAMPBELL : — THE NATURE OF THE ATONEMENT AND ITS RELATION TO REMISSION OF SINS AND ETERNAL LIFE. Fourth and Cheaper Edition, crown 8vo. 6s. "Among the first theological treatises of this generation.
Pagina 353 - The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction.
Pagina 369 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Pagina 336 - ... and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation: others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages and of worthies.
Pagina 353 - He must see ordinary men as they appear in their ordinary business, and in their ordinary pleasures. He must mingle in the crowds of the exchange and the coffee-house.
Pagina 369 - Years following years, steal something every day, At last they steal us from ourselves away; In one our frolics, one amusements end, In one a mistress drops, in one a friend...
Pagina 354 - Walter Scott, in the same manner, has used those fragments of truth which historians have scornfully thrown behind them, in a manner which may well excite their envy. He has constructed out of their gleanings works which, even considered as histories, are scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated.
Pagina 336 - Behold now this vast city: a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas...