The North British Review, Volumes 42-43Leonard Scott & Company, 1865 |
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... English gentlemen , " who had actually carried out an expedition after this fashion into the unknown wilds of the north High- lands , and in a very tantalizing way winds up the affair by saying , " It would be very diverting to show how ...
... English gentlemen , " who had actually carried out an expedition after this fashion into the unknown wilds of the north High- lands , and in a very tantalizing way winds up the affair by saying , " It would be very diverting to show how ...
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... English- man , named John Topham , was living in Edinburgh when this thunderbolt burst , and has left his account of the scene : — “ EDINBURGH , January 24 , 1775 . " Dr. Johnson's account of his tour into Scot- land has just made its ...
... English- man , named John Topham , was living in Edinburgh when this thunderbolt burst , and has left his account of the scene : — “ EDINBURGH , January 24 , 1775 . " Dr. Johnson's account of his tour into Scot- land has just made its ...
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... English taste is admitted , and it is also admitted that not a word can be said in favour of its beauty ; utility is its sole merit- " Those barren hills which hurt an English eye , Afford the streams which vast machines supply , Whose ...
... English taste is admitted , and it is also admitted that not a word can be said in favour of its beauty ; utility is its sole merit- " Those barren hills which hurt an English eye , Afford the streams which vast machines supply , Whose ...
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... English poet that can be styled an epigrammatist . Ben Jonson has a book of 133 epigrams , but not many of them are quotable , or ever quoted , except some of a serious cast , which are not truly epigrammatic . Harrington's epigrams ...
... English poet that can be styled an epigrammatist . Ben Jonson has a book of 133 epigrams , but not many of them are quotable , or ever quoted , except some of a serious cast , which are not truly epigrammatic . Harrington's epigrams ...
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... land , where he became one of the more strict or rigid sort of the English Protestants ; and " LIS ET VICTORIA MUTUA . Bella inter geminos plusquam 26 March , Epigrams . This playful allusion to the double relation ...
... land , where he became one of the more strict or rigid sort of the English Protestants ; and " LIS ET VICTORIA MUTUA . Bella inter geminos plusquam 26 March , Epigrams . This playful allusion to the double relation ...
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Page 151 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Page 152 - Our observation employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge from whence all the ideas we have or can naturally have do spring.
Page 148 - I felt thee ! — on that sea-cliff's verge, Whose pines, scarce travelled by the breeze above, Had made one murmur with the distant surge ! Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare, And shot my being through earth, sea and air, Possessing all things with intensest love, O Liberty ! my spirit felt thee there.
Page 22 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 230 - And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
Page 149 - Or throne of corses which his sword hath slain ? Greatness and goodness are not means but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Page 51 - Fontenoy, the blood of the mountaineers who were slaughtered at Culloden. The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbor whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.
Page 24 - We have but faith: we cannot know, For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness: let it grow.
Page 219 - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey ; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness...
Page 97 - It was foretold, that to him should the gathering of the people be ; and that God would give him the Heathen for his inheritance, and the utmost parts of the earth for his possession, which was punctually fulfilled by the wonderful success of the gospel, and its universal propagation throughout the world.