Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 35W. Blackwood & Sons, 1834 - Scotland |
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... ment of their own extinction ; that the blast which tore up the founda- tions of society , shattered themselves into dust and ashes , and left of their ambition but an ignominious and abhorred name . Hypocrisy is of all vices the most ...
... ment of their own extinction ; that the blast which tore up the founda- tions of society , shattered themselves into dust and ashes , and left of their ambition but an ignominious and abhorred name . Hypocrisy is of all vices the most ...
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... ment of the national mind . From ancient learning man gains wisdom , from modern science he gains know- ledge . The labour , the grave reli- ance on the maxims wrought by ages of trial , the acknowledgment that they may be indebted for ...
... ment of the national mind . From ancient learning man gains wisdom , from modern science he gains know- ledge . The labour , the grave reli- ance on the maxims wrought by ages of trial , the acknowledgment that they may be indebted for ...
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... ment , wholly to separate and tear asunder the bands of their subordi- nate community . It is the first and supreme necessity only , -a necessity which is not chosen , but chooses , -a necessity that admits no discussion , and demands ...
... ment , wholly to separate and tear asunder the bands of their subordi- nate community . It is the first and supreme necessity only , -a necessity which is not chosen , but chooses , -a necessity that admits no discussion , and demands ...
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... ment should be as stable as the earth on which it stands . " From this simple statement of the fact , he suddenly starts into a singu- larly beautiful expansion of the na- tural maxim , that religion is neces- sary to the highest as ...
... ment should be as stable as the earth on which it stands . " From this simple statement of the fact , he suddenly starts into a singu- larly beautiful expansion of the na- tural maxim , that religion is neces- sary to the highest as ...
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... ment - office , who may be dismissed at an hour's notice , according to the convenience of Government , and a minister of the Church , whom no man can deprive of his function , his dignity , or his office , while his conduct continues ...
... ment - office , who may be dismissed at an hour's notice , according to the convenience of Government , and a minister of the Church , whom no man can deprive of his function , his dignity , or his office , while his conduct continues ...
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Page 505 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Page 115 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Page 27 - Learning paid back what it received to nobility and to priesthood; and paid it with usury, by enlarging their ideas and by furnishing their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union and their proper place! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master! Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Page 516 - Nothing can be conceived more hard than the heart of a thorough-bred metaphysician. It comes nearer to the cold malignity of a wicked spirit than to the frailty and passion of a man. It is like that of the Principle of Evil himself, incorporeal, pure, unmixed, dephlegmated, defecated evil.
Page 514 - Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of...
Page 33 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Page 514 - ... reservoir of merit in me, or in any ancestry. He had in himself a salient living spring of generous and manly action. Every day he lived, he would have repurchased the bounty of the crown, and ten times more, if ten times more he had received.
Page 277 - Where the great interests of mankind are concerned through a long succession of generations, that succession ought to be admitted into some share in the councils which are so deeply to affect them. If justice requires this, the work itself requires the aid of more minds than one age can furnish. It is from this view of things that the best legislators have been often satisfied with the establishment of some sure, solid, and ruling principle in government, — a power like that which some of the philosophers...
Page 513 - ... the State - shall, like the proud Keep of Windsor, rising in the majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of its kindred and coeval towers; as long as this awful structure shall oversee and guard the subjected land, so long the mounds and dykes of the low, fat, Bedford level will have nothing to fear from all the pickaxes of all the levellers of France.
Page 512 - he lies floating many a rood' he is still a creature. His ribs, his fins, his whalebone, his blubber, the very spiracles through which he spouts a torrent of brine against his origin, and covers me all over with the spray, everything of him and about him is from the throne.