The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Том 78A. Constable, 1843 |
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... manner , by the exchange of debts and credits , that the commerce of the world is carried on , and with a compara- tively small transmission of the precious metals . But , though the international circulation of the precious metals is ...
... manner , by the exchange of debts and credits , that the commerce of the world is carried on , and with a compara- tively small transmission of the precious metals . But , though the international circulation of the precious metals is ...
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... manner and the degree in which the changes in their mutual intercourse would affect their commercial relations with other nations - he has been able to extract from his assumed premises consequences which we believe to be not merely ...
... manner and the degree in which the changes in their mutual intercourse would affect their commercial relations with other nations - he has been able to extract from his assumed premises consequences which we believe to be not merely ...
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... manner of throwing together his loose remarks on men and things ; nothing more commonplace than two - thirds of the matter with which he has filled up the predes- tined and favourite number of three volumes . But the remaining portion ...
... manner of throwing together his loose remarks on men and things ; nothing more commonplace than two - thirds of the matter with which he has filled up the predes- tined and favourite number of three volumes . But the remaining portion ...
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... manner only equalled by the most slovenly of modern tourists . But as he has managed to live and thrive without them , so he succeeds in giving his reader a tolerable insight into many things , of which some writers of greater ...
... manner only equalled by the most slovenly of modern tourists . But as he has managed to live and thrive without them , so he succeeds in giving his reader a tolerable insight into many things , of which some writers of greater ...
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... manner in which the great Author of Nature has varied his dispensations . In the burning region of the tor- rid zone , the descent of the sun calls into action myriads of little beings which could not exist under the fierce glare of his ...
... manner in which the great Author of Nature has varied his dispensations . In the burning region of the tor- rid zone , the descent of the sun calls into action myriads of little beings which could not exist under the fierce glare of his ...
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Сторінка 384 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
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.