American Quarterly Review, Volume 22Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1837 - United States |
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... evidence of a bilious temperament , yet she flung her squibs so playfully , and her cas- tigations came so naturally and so apparently from a desire to " do the state some service , " that we were fain to overlook her impertinences and ...
... evidence of a bilious temperament , yet she flung her squibs so playfully , and her cas- tigations came so naturally and so apparently from a desire to " do the state some service , " that we were fain to overlook her impertinences and ...
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... evidence in its favour ; and the phantoms of Greece and Rome rise before us to deny it . No one man , even of the greatest powers , and who has passed a life in the study and pursuit of a subject , is allowed to be infallible , and what ...
... evidence in its favour ; and the phantoms of Greece and Rome rise before us to deny it . No one man , even of the greatest powers , and who has passed a life in the study and pursuit of a subject , is allowed to be infallible , and what ...
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... evidence of the experience of the governments which created , and the necessity which required them . We know that the youth of Greece and Rome were trained to the theory of war before they were sent to participate in its active scenes ...
... evidence of the experience of the governments which created , and the necessity which required them . We know that the youth of Greece and Rome were trained to the theory of war before they were sent to participate in its active scenes ...
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... evidence , under a misapprehension caused by a mind too zeal- ously bent upon the object to weigh dispassionately the means by which it is sought to be attained , to make out his case by all the aid of premises without proofs , and ...
... evidence , under a misapprehension caused by a mind too zeal- ously bent upon the object to weigh dispassionately the means by which it is sought to be attained , to make out his case by all the aid of premises without proofs , and ...
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... evidences of the purposes of the academy ; and that the latter being like the former , the whole is contrary to the genius and spirit of our political institutions , and should there- fore be abolished . In other words , it is said that ...
... evidences of the purposes of the academy ; and that the latter being like the former , the whole is contrary to the genius and spirit of our political institutions , and should there- fore be abolished . In other words , it is said that ...
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Page 211 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Page 219 - When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home' returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II.
Page 221 - Mixed with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; And all who since, baptised or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabbia.
Page 240 - The naked hulk alongside came, And the twain were casting dice; "The game is done! I've won! I've won!
Page 477 - At my nativity my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me.
Page 303 - I offer this work as the mathematical principles of philosophy, for the whole burden of philosophy seems to consist in this — from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena; and to this end the general propositions in the first and second Books are directed.
Page 219 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Page 215 - The first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, which were not common occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes ; nor do I believe I ever read a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm.
Page 214 - I possessed, it may be imagined, but cannot be described, with what delight I saw pieces of the same kind which had amused my childhood, and still continued in secret the Delilahs of my imagination, considered as the subject of sober research, grave commentary, and apt illustration, by an editor who showed his poetical genius was capable of emulating the best qualities of what his pious labour preserved.
Page 477 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams; and this time also would I choose for my devotions...