The Oriental herald and colonial review [ed. by J.S. Buckingham]., Volume 2James Silk Buckingham 1824 |
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... respect . " Politics , as a science , " says this writer , " having very seldom been permitted to men freely to study , and to publish the result of their researches in , proportionate advances have not been made in it with the advances ...
... respect . " Politics , as a science , " says this writer , " having very seldom been permitted to men freely to study , and to publish the result of their researches in , proportionate advances have not been made in it with the advances ...
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... respect to flow from poverty of fancy ; and therefore concluded that the writers of Greece and Rome , in whom it was a kind of ruling principle , were destitute of what we understand by the word genius . But it does not follow that the ...
... respect to flow from poverty of fancy ; and therefore concluded that the writers of Greece and Rome , in whom it was a kind of ruling principle , were destitute of what we understand by the word genius . But it does not follow that the ...
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James Silk Buckingham. that a very wide range is left for the imagination in respect to place and time . " Towards the eastern confines of China , there once reigned a monarch " -Thus begin the Fables of Pilpay . This prince is then ...
James Silk Buckingham. that a very wide range is left for the imagination in respect to place and time . " Towards the eastern confines of China , there once reigned a monarch " -Thus begin the Fables of Pilpay . This prince is then ...
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... respect for his ability in general , he relates various instances of strength falling beneath the attacks of weakness when aided by cunning ; and she , in order to turn him from his design , enu- merates as many , to show that , sooner ...
... respect for his ability in general , he relates various instances of strength falling beneath the attacks of weakness when aided by cunning ; and she , in order to turn him from his design , enu- merates as many , to show that , sooner ...
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... respect , admiration , and regard . It is thus , however , that history is perverted to the worst of purposes , and by the suppression of truth , and the propa- gation of falsehood , the commonest events are so misrepresented , that ...
... respect , admiration , and regard . It is thus , however , that history is perverted to the worst of purposes , and by the suppression of truth , and the propa- gation of falsehood , the commonest events are so misrepresented , that ...
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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...