 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 628 pages
...the sentiment which the new London Reviewers have chosen for the motto of their prospectus, " Reviews show the progress of a country, or an age, in taste...manners, and in the cultivation of science. They mark the gradation of language itself, and the progressive or retrograde motions of the public mind upon the... | |
 | 1825 - 610 pages
...examine the reasons upon which men of talents nearly equal have founded decisions totally opposite. By posterity, too, reviews will be considered as useful...gradations of language itself, and the progressive or retrogade motions of the public mind upon the most interesting subjects in ethics, in politics, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1826 - 918 pages
...examine the reasons upon which men of talents nearly equal have founded decisions totally opposite. By posterity, too, reviews will be considered as useful...most interesting subjects in ethics, in politics, and in religion." In the same year, Mr. Beloe published a translation of " Aulus Gellius," the very learned... | |
 | Great Britain - 1826 - 520 pages
...examine the reasons upon which men of talents nearly equal have founded decisions totally opposite. By posterity, too, reviews will be considered as useful...most interesting subjects in ethics, in politics, and in religion." Mr. Boswell, in his Life of Dr. Johnson, having expressed his doubts respecting the correctness... | |
 | Great Britain - 1826 - 494 pages
...examine the reasons upon which men of talents nearly equal have founded decisions totally opposite. By posterity, too, reviews will be considered as useful...most interesting subjects in ethics, in politics, and in religion." Mr. Boswell, in his Life of Dr. Johnson, having expressed his doubts respecting the correctness... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1826 - 884 pages
...examine the reasons upon which men of talents nearly equal have founded decisions totally opposite. By posterity, too, reviews will be considered as useful...most interesting subjects in ethics, in politics, and in religion." In the same year, Mr. Beloe published a translation of " Aulus Gellius," the very learned... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1826 - 902 pages
...examine the reason* upon which men of talents nearly equal have founded decisions totally opposite. By posterity, too, reviews will be considered as useful...country, or an age, in taste and arts, in refinement ui manners, and in the cultivation of science. They mark the gradations of language itself and the... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - Theology - 1828 - 954 pages
...upon the opportunities which they furnish to men of learning, for rendering some occasional •ervice to the general cause of literature. There is no one...or retrograde motions of the public mind upon the mo»t interesting subjects in ethics, in politics, and religion. In regard to particular Reviews, his... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - Theology - 1828 - 756 pages
...considered as useful repositories of the most splendid passages in the most celebrated works. They will shew the progress of a country or an age in taste and arts,...interesting subjects in ethics, in politics, and religion. Criticism, indeed, is shackled by no party, and devoted to no sect. Let me, however, hope to be excused,... | |
 | William Field - Clergy England Biography - 1828 - 490 pages
...examine the reasons, upon which men of talents nearly equal have founded decisions so totally opposite. By posterity, too, Reviews will be considered as useful...age, in taste and arts, in refinement of manners, and the cultivation of science. They mark the gradations of language itself, and the progressive or retrograde... | |
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By such collisions of sentiment truth is brought into fuller view, and a reader finds himself impelled, by the very strongest curiosity, to examine the reasons upon which men of talents nearly equal have founded decisions totally opposite. By posterity,... 
