The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Том 57A. Constable, 1833 |
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... effect preserved , by the exuberant variety of sentiment and expression which breaks out and flows over every part . She thus generally contrives sooner or later to bring us into harmony with her characters ; or at least to an ...
... effect preserved , by the exuberant variety of sentiment and expression which breaks out and flows over every part . She thus generally contrives sooner or later to bring us into harmony with her characters ; or at least to an ...
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... effect as a story - teller . Her command over interesting inci- dents , striking thoughts , and beautiful expressions , will carry her triumphantly through greater disadvantages , than the ble- mish of now and then fiercening up a ...
... effect as a story - teller . Her command over interesting inci- dents , striking thoughts , and beautiful expressions , will carry her triumphantly through greater disadvantages , than the ble- mish of now and then fiercening up a ...
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... effect . But a much more marked inferiority consists in the fact , that their fables , as fables , are for the most part no longer Illustrations of Politi- ' cal Economy . ' There is little perceptible connexion between the summary and ...
... effect . But a much more marked inferiority consists in the fact , that their fables , as fables , are for the most part no longer Illustrations of Politi- ' cal Economy . ' There is little perceptible connexion between the summary and ...
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... effect is excellently exemplified by the rise and progress of some iron works in a Welsh valley . Competition at home and abroad bring the proprietors to the point ; -a reduction of wages and the introduction of machinery offer the only ...
... effect is excellently exemplified by the rise and progress of some iron works in a Welsh valley . Competition at home and abroad bring the proprietors to the point ; -a reduction of wages and the introduction of machinery offer the only ...
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... effect of the degree of preference , which we thus show to primogeniture , is confined in England to landed estates in fee simple and for life . Parti- bility is the law in the much more numerous instances of terms for years . Surely ...
... effect of the degree of preference , which we thus show to primogeniture , is confined in England to landed estates in fee simple and for life . Parti- bility is the law in the much more numerous instances of terms for years . Surely ...
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Сторінка 115 - And it would be a most easy task to prove to him, that not only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose, but likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the best poems will be found to be strictly the language of prose when prose is well written.
Сторінка 508 - Though the State was to derive no advantage from the instruction of the inferior ranks of the people, it would still deserve its attention that they should not be altogether uninstructed. The State, however, derives no inconsiderable advantage from their instruction. The more they are instructed, the less liable they are to the delusions of enthusiasm and superstition, which, among ignorant nations, frequently occasion the most dreadful disorders.
Сторінка 508 - An instructed and intelligent people besides are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one. They feel themselves, each individually, more respectable, and more likely to obtain the respect of their lawful superiors, and they are therefore more disposed to respect those superiors. They are more disposed to examine, and more capable of seeing through, the interested complaints of faction and sedition...
Сторінка 145 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Сторінка 116 - It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.
Сторінка 287 - I could be its duke at cost of these, I would not give them for it. Mark me, duke ! I saw a new-made grave in Mantua And on the headstone read my father's name : To seek me, doubtless, hither he had come — To seek the child that had deserted him — And died here ere he found me. Heaven can tell how far he wandered else ! Upon that grave I knelt an altered man, And, rising thence, I fled from Mantua, nor had returned, But tyrant Hunger drove" me back again To thee — to thee ! — my body to relieve...
Сторінка 230 - Logic), there is no distinction between them ; eg " a Property which belongs to the ox, sheep, deer, goat, and antelope, belongs to all horned animals ; rumination belongs to these ; therefore to all.
Сторінка 285 - Twas now abstraction — now a start — anon A pacing to and fro— anon, a stillness, As nought remain'd of life, save life itself, And feeling, thought, and motion, were extinct! Then all again was action! Disinclined To converse, save he held it with himself; Which oft he did, in moody vein discoursing, And ever and anon invoking Honour, As some high contest there were pending, 'twixt Himself and him, wherein her aid he needed.
Сторінка 508 - A man without the proper use of the intellectual faculties of a man, is, if possible, more contemptible than even a coward, and seems to be mutilated and deformed in a still more essential part of the character of human nature.
Сторінка 527 - In schools for females, the examinations to take place in presence of the parents and masters, without any general invitation.' ' But if the public instructors are bound to a faithful performance of their duties, they have a right, in return, to the gratitude and respect due to the zealous laborer in the sacred work of education. The school is entitled to claim universal countenance and aid, even from those who do not confide to it their children. All public authorities, each in its sphere, are enjoined...