The National Review, Volume 2R. Theobald, 1856 |
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... social position of the Gibbons was established ; and the remnants of it preserved from death the immortal author of the Decline and Fall . The son of this great speculator , the historian's father , was a man to spend a fortune quietly ...
... social position of the Gibbons was established ; and the remnants of it preserved from death the immortal author of the Decline and Fall . The son of this great speculator , the historian's father , was a man to spend a fortune quietly ...
Pagina 39
... social scale of the place . The inhabitants were gratified that a man of European reputation had selected their out - of - the - way town for the shrine of his time : he lived pleasantly and easily among easy pleasant people ; a gentle ...
... social scale of the place . The inhabitants were gratified that a man of European reputation had selected their out - of - the - way town for the shrine of his time : he lived pleasantly and easily among easy pleasant people ; a gentle ...
Pagina 40
age in a gentle social place ; internally he had polished up a cold theory of life , sufficient for the guidance of a cold and polished man . Every thing seemed to be tranquil with him : the rigid must admit his decorum ; the lax would ...
age in a gentle social place ; internally he had polished up a cold theory of life , sufficient for the guidance of a cold and polished man . Every thing seemed to be tranquil with him : the rigid must admit his decorum ; the lax would ...
Pagina 43
... social problems they could barely afford to hint , and relinquished them to the ethical speculator ; the dry details of finance were either wholly passed over , or relegated to an appendix ; the domestic life and manners of a nation ...
... social problems they could barely afford to hint , and relinquished them to the ethical speculator ; the dry details of finance were either wholly passed over , or relegated to an appendix ; the domestic life and manners of a nation ...
Pagina 45
... social phe- nomena of the red man were objects of deep interest to their earliest and most unwearied advocate ; and the memorials of Las Casas supply some of the information which we seek vainly in the chronicles of Oviedo and Bernal ...
... social phe- nomena of the red man were objects of deep interest to their earliest and most unwearied advocate ; and the memorials of Las Casas supply some of the information which we seek vainly in the chronicles of Oviedo and Bernal ...
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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...