The Oriental herald and colonial review [ed. by J.S. Buckingham]., Volume 2James Silk Buckingham 1824 |
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... mind of the intelligent reader will readily suggest them . Our desire is to see these evils remedied ; and we are satisfied that the mode of gradually effecting this , by making all men responsible to the pub- lic opinion of the ...
... mind of the intelligent reader will readily suggest them . Our desire is to see these evils remedied ; and we are satisfied that the mode of gradually effecting this , by making all men responsible to the pub- lic opinion of the ...
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... minds , " says the writer from whom we have quoted before , " may comprehend matters less obvious ; and capacities one degree larger may take in matters which may be deemed in- tricate ; and so on , till we arrive at the highest ...
... minds , " says the writer from whom we have quoted before , " may comprehend matters less obvious ; and capacities one degree larger may take in matters which may be deemed in- tricate ; and so on , till we arrive at the highest ...
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... minds of men for the reception of truth , and disposing them to apply those principles not only to their estimate of ... minds of Directors . East India delinquents may also operate on the minds of ministers through parliamentary ...
... minds of men for the reception of truth , and disposing them to apply those principles not only to their estimate of ... minds of Directors . East India delinquents may also operate on the minds of ministers through parliamentary ...
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... mind would al- ways give birth to equal dignity and richness of expression . For to one who was perpetually following the track of nature , through all her heights and depths , and making the experiment as it were , of how far the human ...
... mind would al- ways give birth to equal dignity and richness of expression . For to one who was perpetually following the track of nature , through all her heights and depths , and making the experiment as it were , of how far the human ...
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... mind of those who deal in weighty and massive thought - they have much on board , and cannot dare the shallows like an unloaded skiff . Minds of great depth and solidity have never been remarkable for natural humour , and seldom for wit ...
... mind of those who deal in weighty and massive thought - they have much on board , and cannot dare the shallows like an unloaded skiff . Minds of great depth and solidity have never been remarkable for natural humour , and seldom for wit ...
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Page 43 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 225 - And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man ; and he saw : and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
Page 55 - have done those things which we ought not to have done, and we have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and there is no Health within us" — or, we might add, as little health as we can help.
Page 561 - Discussions having a tendency to create alarm or suspicion among the Native population, of any intended interference with their religious opinions or observances.
Page 207 - There is hardly a complete couplet enclosing a complete idea in the whole book. He wanders from one subject to another, from the association, not of ideas but of sounds, and the work is composed of hemistichs which, it is quite evident, have forced themselves upon the author by the mere force of the catch-words on which they turn.
Page 245 - It was now that he began that laborious work of amassing out of all the Classic Authors, both in Prose and Verse, a...
Page 91 - ... with tyrant-ridden France, speak the value of a spirit to be found only in men accustomed to indulge and express their honest sentiments.
Page 615 - I had thrown off half my clothes, when a cry of fire, fire! roused us from our calm content, and in five minutes the whole ship was in flames! I ran to examine whence the flames principally issued, and found that the fire had its origin immediately under our cabin. Down with the boats.
Page 90 - If our motives of action are worthy, it must be wise to render them intelligible throughout an empire, our hold on which is opinion. Further, it is salutary for supreme authority, even when its intentions are most pure, to look to the control of public scrutiny. While conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose nothing of its strength by its exposure to general comment. On the contrary, it acquires incalculable addition of force.
Page 246 - The Sunday's work was, for the most part, the reading each day a chapter of the Greek Testament, and hearing his learned exposition upon the same (and how this savored of atheism in him, I leave to the courteous backbiter to judge). The next work after this was the writing from his own dictation, some part, from time to time, of a tractate which he thought fit to collect from the ablest of divines who had written of that subject...