The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 187A. Constable, 1898 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 126 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Pagina 180 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Pagina 286 - These evils can hardly be exaggerated. The earnings of the lowest class of workers are barely sufficient to sustain existence. The hours of labor are such as to make the lives of the workers periods of almost ceaseless toil, hard and unlovely to the last degree.
Pagina 259 - that we could again seize Afghanistan, if it were advisable or necessary, and that, with our Indus frontier complete in its communications, parallel and perpendicular, no power on earth could shake us out of that country. I know, too, that, with the Afghans friendly and cordial, we could, without the actual seizure of the country for ourselves, organise its defence in a most destructive manner against hostile invasions.
Pagina 107 - He seemed disposed to think that the most feasible solution of the Irish University question is a Catholic university, the restrictive and obscurantist tendencies of which you may expect to have checked by the active competition of life with men trained in more enlightened systems.
Pagina 183 - Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, Even thine altars, 0 Lord of hosts, my King, and my God ! Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee.
Pagina 503 - It may be thought great presumption in me to differ from so great authority as that of the twelve judges ; but when a man is called upon to sign his name to an act which is to give authority to the shedding of blood, he ought to be guided by his own conscience, and not by the opinions of other men.
Pagina 292 - ... there will be, if not a greater identification of interest, at least a clearer perception of the principles which must regulate the division of the proceeds of each industry, consistently with its permanence and prosperity, between those who supply labour and those who supply managing ability and capital.
Pagina 38 - For the mistimed but rather pathetic belief of the old dying Duke in the courtesy with which he and his States would be treated by the French, see Ba1gnot, tome ip 307 : " I feel sure that there is a courier of the Emperor's on the road to know how I am.
Pagina 174 - ... se defendendo, for fear it should be thought to be the effect of resentment. In one word I do assure you, I can live and act with the Duke now in the same manner and with the same easiness as the first day that ever I saw him...