The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 160A. Constable, 1884 |
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Pagina 10
... existence , of nations ? " Alexander admitted that it might become impossible , before long , to keep terms with Napoleon , but he rejected as yet the only alternative , the restoration of the Bourbons to the throne . ' The obstacles ...
... existence , of nations ? " Alexander admitted that it might become impossible , before long , to keep terms with Napoleon , but he rejected as yet the only alternative , the restoration of the Bourbons to the throne . ' The obstacles ...
Pagina 14
... existence and power , and you will see that more adherents than you care for would flock in . " " But , " observed another , " the prejudices of the Bourbons would prevent them from availing themselves of the assistance of men of weight ...
... existence and power , and you will see that more adherents than you care for would flock in . " " But , " observed another , " the prejudices of the Bourbons would prevent them from availing themselves of the assistance of men of weight ...
Pagina 64
... existence indicated by the stream of authentic historical documents . Shutting his ears at once to the uncertain sound of Scandinavian myths , and the equally uncertain voices of those shameless prevari- cators the Celtic senachies or ...
... existence indicated by the stream of authentic historical documents . Shutting his ears at once to the uncertain sound of Scandinavian myths , and the equally uncertain voices of those shameless prevari- cators the Celtic senachies or ...
Pagina 125
... existence . In his journal of this time memo- randa on the Mutiny at Vellore and a military conspiracy at Hyderabad are jumbled up with notes on the disaster of Nicias before Syracuse and on the perfidious seizing of Thebes , in a way ...
... existence . In his journal of this time memo- randa on the Mutiny at Vellore and a military conspiracy at Hyderabad are jumbled up with notes on the disaster of Nicias before Syracuse and on the perfidious seizing of Thebes , in a way ...
Pagina 132
... existence among learned men and libraries . It does not seem to occur to him that Gibbon wrote of the past , and dealt with historic records and researches into antiquity ; while Elphinstone's business was with the Afghanistan of his ...
... existence among learned men and libraries . It does not seem to occur to him that Gibbon wrote of the past , and dealt with historic records and researches into antiquity ; while Elphinstone's business was with the Afghanistan of his ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 298 - He will watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom, Nor heed nor see what things they be : But from these create he can Forms more real than living man, Nurslings of immortality.
Pagina 34 - Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America, by Benjamin Franklin, LLD and FRS To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects.
Pagina 304 - What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew, And beckoning woos me, from the fatal tree To pluck a garland for herself, or me?
Pagina 394 - These wretched colonies will all be independent too in a few years, and are a millstone round our necks.
Pagina 333 - Early at business, and at hazard late; Mad at a fox-chase, wise at a debate; Drunk at a borough, civil at a ball; Friendly at Hackney, faithless at Whitehall.
Pagina 207 - Competition is put forth as the law of the universe. That is a lie. The time is come for us to declare that it is a lie by word and deed. I see no way but associating for work instead of for strikes.
Pagina 331 - tis the fall degrades her to a whore; Let greatness own her, and she's mean no more: Her birth, her beauty, crowds and courts confess, Chaste matrons praise her, and grave bishops bless; In golden chains the willing world she draws, And hers the gospel is, and hers the laws; Mounts the tribunal, lifts her scarlet head, And sees pale Virtue carted in her stead.
Pagina 249 - The penalty never travels on with the vessel further than to the end of the return voyage ; 2 and if she is taken in any part of that voyage, she is taken in delicto.
Pagina 290 - I went through all the best critics*; almost all the English, French, and Latin poets, of any name : the minor poets, Homer, and some of the greater Greek poets, in the original; and Tasso and Ariosto in translations...
Pagina 508 - China had recovered from her internal confusion, there was nothing to be gained and much to be lost by protracted resistance to the peoples of the West.