The Edinburgh Review, Volume 126A. and C. Black, 1867 - English literature |
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... English annals . Memoir after memoir , corre- spondence after correspondence , testimony after testimony , are successively throwing light on the obscure , and giving pre- cision to the doubtful , portions of the Georgian era . The ...
... English annals . Memoir after memoir , corre- spondence after correspondence , testimony after testimony , are successively throwing light on the obscure , and giving pre- cision to the doubtful , portions of the Georgian era . The ...
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... English Government as their heritage , and whose unfailing good - nature made him equally attentive to the wishes of his sovereign and regardless of the bitterest denunciations of his foes . Of these three periods it is needless to say ...
... English Government as their heritage , and whose unfailing good - nature made him equally attentive to the wishes of his sovereign and regardless of the bitterest denunciations of his foes . Of these three periods it is needless to say ...
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... English language was so defective that not only did he never write it idiomatically , but , to his latest day , he made marvellous blunders in spelling . Of these two defects , the latter , of which we shall see curious instances , was ...
... English language was so defective that not only did he never write it idiomatically , but , to his latest day , he made marvellous blunders in spelling . Of these two defects , the latter , of which we shall see curious instances , was ...
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... English " Government was , in practice , assuming the form of an ex- clusive oligarchy . The King , though his prerogative still existed in theory unimpaired , had no more real power than a Doge of Venice or a Merovingian King in the ...
... English " Government was , in practice , assuming the form of an ex- clusive oligarchy . The King , though his prerogative still existed in theory unimpaired , had no more real power than a Doge of Venice or a Merovingian King in the ...
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... English arms during the war . It is one of the highest tributes to the genius of Pitt that the influence of his spirit animated our forces even after he had ceased to direct them as Minister . To many people of the present day it is not ...
... English arms during the war . It is one of the highest tributes to the genius of Pitt that the influence of his spirit animated our forces even after he had ceased to direct them as Minister . To many people of the present day it is not ...
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Page 121 - GENERAL Councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes. And when they be gathered together, (forasmuch as they be an assembly of men, whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of God,) they may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto God. Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to salvation have neither strength nor authority, unless it may be declared that they be taken out of holy Scripture.
Page 459 - Deans-looking body,' as we Scotch say — and, if not handsome, certainly not ill-looking. Her conversation was as quiet as herself. One would never have guessed she could write her name ; whereas her father talked, not as if he could write nothing else, but as if nothing else was worth writing.
Page 557 - He made an administration, so checkered and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified Mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies : that it was indeed a very curious show; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand...
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Page 489 - Sheridan knocked violently at her door during the five minutes she had desired to have entirely to herself, to compose her spirits before the play began. He burst in, and prophesied that she would ruin herself for ever if she persevered in this resolution to lay down the candlestick ! She persisted, however, in her determination, succeeded, was applauded, and Sheridan begged her pardon. She described well the awe she felt, and the power of the excitement given to her by the sight of Burke, Fox, Sheridan,...
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