The North British Review, Volumes 42-43Leonard Scott & Company, 1865 |
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... spirit of the genuine explorer and lover of nature . He proposes that a small party should organize themselves , and carry tents and baggage with them . It would be madness to attempt this without * Tour , iii . 118 . ↑ Tour , iii . 33 ...
... spirit of the genuine explorer and lover of nature . He proposes that a small party should organize themselves , and carry tents and baggage with them . It would be madness to attempt this without * Tour , iii . 118 . ↑ Tour , iii . 33 ...
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... spirit , she must have done something in lite- rature or otherwise that posterity would have remembered . An anecdote about her father , Sir William Maxwell of Monreith , affords one of the boldest and sharpest of the retorts preserved ...
... spirit , she must have done something in lite- rature or otherwise that posterity would have remembered . An anecdote about her father , Sir William Maxwell of Monreith , affords one of the boldest and sharpest of the retorts preserved ...
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... spirit in them . Though he proclaimed that his heart was in the Highlands , he never celebrated them with so much heart as in that yell of rage and disappointment in which he says " There's naething here but Hieland pride , But Hieland ...
... spirit in them . Though he proclaimed that his heart was in the Highlands , he never celebrated them with so much heart as in that yell of rage and disappointment in which he says " There's naething here but Hieland pride , But Hieland ...
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... spirit of O'Donnell's Cabinet in 1856 , the very incarnation of the Union Liberal . When a politician of his colour reminds the Sovereign that princes who are too long obstinate generally finish their lives in exile , the state of ...
... spirit of O'Donnell's Cabinet in 1856 , the very incarnation of the Union Liberal . When a politician of his colour reminds the Sovereign that princes who are too long obstinate generally finish their lives in exile , the state of ...
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... spirit of an age , which , self- complacent and self - indulgent as it may ap- pear , is yet restless , inquiring , and filled with a belief in progress . But whatever be the cause , the fact is certain . In each succeed- ing session of ...
... spirit of an age , which , self- complacent and self - indulgent as it may ap- pear , is yet restless , inquiring , and filled with a belief in progress . But whatever be the cause , the fact is certain . In each succeed- ing session of ...
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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.