The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Том 78A. Constable, 1843 |
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... less prejudicial to our capital ' and industry , because other governments persisted in preserving ' impolitic regulations . ' And they ended by an earnest protest , against every restrictive regulation of trade not essential to the ...
... less prejudicial to our capital ' and industry , because other governments persisted in preserving ' impolitic regulations . ' And they ended by an earnest protest , against every restrictive regulation of trade not essential to the ...
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... less than eleven years , effected more for the benefit of the empire than had been done , or attempted , or apparently even desired , by their predecessors during a rule of half a century , after many important but partial improvements ...
... less than eleven years , effected more for the benefit of the empire than had been done , or attempted , or apparently even desired , by their predecessors during a rule of half a century , after many important but partial improvements ...
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... less quantity of fo- reign produce in exchange for the same quantity of exported goods , would be the least portion of the evil inflicted upon England by the change which has been described . Under the circumstances assumed , the ...
... less quantity of fo- reign produce in exchange for the same quantity of exported goods , would be the least portion of the evil inflicted upon England by the change which has been described . Under the circumstances assumed , the ...
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... less expense , better warmed than before . But an invention which should diminish by one half the labour necessary to produce a given quantity of lace , would confer no permanent benefit on the lace - makers . If the consequence were ...
... less expense , better warmed than before . But an invention which should diminish by one half the labour necessary to produce a given quantity of lace , would confer no permanent benefit on the lace - makers . If the consequence were ...
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... less and less of what he individually produces , until at last almost every want , and every gratification , is supplied by means of an exchange . Our ancestors lived on their own estates , fed their household from the produce of their ...
... less and less of what he individually produces , until at last almost every want , and every gratification , is supplied by means of an exchange . Our ancestors lived on their own estates , fed their household from the produce of their ...
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Сторінка 199 - The world generally gives its admiration, not to the man who does what nobody else even attempts to do, but to the man who does best what multitudes do well.
Сторінка 370 - Thick 8vo, cloth, 6s (original price 12s) Published under the superintendence of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature.
Сторінка 251 - Oh! if sometimes thy spotless form descend, To me, thy aid, thou guardian genius, lend! When rage misguides me, or when fear alarms, When pain distresses, or when pleasure charms, In silent whisperings purer thoughts impart, And turn from ill a frail and feeble heart, Lead through the paths thy virtue trod before, Till bliss shall join, nor death can part us more.
Сторінка 229 - The mere choice and arrangement of his words would have sufficed to make his essays classical. For never, not even by Dryden, not even by Temple, had the English language been written with such sweetness, grace, and facility.
Сторінка 455 - Thebes's streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous Of which the very ruins are tremendous.
Сторінка 251 - Or dost thou warn poor mortals left behind, A task well suited to thy gentle mind ? Oh! if sometimes thy spotless form descend, To me thy aid, thou guardian genius, lend! When rage misguides me, or when fear alarms, When pain distresses, or when pleasure charms, In silent whisperings purer thoughts impart, And turn from ill a frail and feeble heart; Lead through the paths thy virtue trod before, Till bliss shall join, nor death can...
Сторінка 238 - ... and books on farriery included. In these circumstances, the sale of the Spectator must be considered as indicating a popularity quite as great as that of the most successful works of Sir Walter Scott and Mr. Dickens in our own time.
Сторінка 218 - ... fast. Whole fleets had been cast away. Large mansions had been blown down. One prelate had been buried beneath the ruins of his palace. London and Bristol had presented the appearance of cities just sacked. Hundreds of families were still in mourning. The prostrate trunks of large trees, and the ruins of houses, still attested, in all the Southern counties, the fury of the blast. The popularity which the simile of the angel enjoyed among Addison's contemporaries has always seemed to us to be...
Сторінка 194 - To Addison himself we are bound by a sentiment as much like affection as any sentiment can be which is inspired by one who has been sleeping a hundred and twenty years in Westminster Abbey.