The Quarterly review, Volume 53Murray, 1835 |
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... living caricatures of humanity . They have , however , like all degraded human beings , their share of cunning ; and we could not but smile at Mr. Bennett's account of his meeting with one of them , who took his black coat for an ...
... living caricatures of humanity . They have , however , like all degraded human beings , their share of cunning ; and we could not but smile at Mr. Bennett's account of his meeting with one of them , who took his black coat for an ...
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... living among such debased beings . vol . ii . p . 133 . Again- • An ill - tempered fellow on the road having called me " you " this morning instead of " your highness , " I was forced to give him a very severe lesson in politeness . I ...
... living among such debased beings . vol . ii . p . 133 . Again- • An ill - tempered fellow on the road having called me " you " this morning instead of " your highness , " I was forced to give him a very severe lesson in politeness . I ...
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... alighting to speak to me , I laid hold of him by his pig - tail and threw him off his horse . This comes , * See Quarterly Review , vol . xxii . p . 421 . my my friend , of living a year in India : 36 . Correspondance de Victor Jacquemont .
... alighting to speak to me , I laid hold of him by his pig - tail and threw him off his horse . This comes , * See Quarterly Review , vol . xxii . p . 421 . my my friend , of living a year in India : 36 . Correspondance de Victor Jacquemont .
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my friend , of living a year in India : a man thinks himself very sin- cerely insulted by every act which is not servile . Here I was wrong , for the poor devil of a Beharite was ignorant of Indian etiquette . But I saw only one thing ...
my friend , of living a year in India : a man thinks himself very sin- cerely insulted by every act which is not servile . Here I was wrong , for the poor devil of a Beharite was ignorant of Indian etiquette . But I saw only one thing ...
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... living in the mountains , the translator makes him eat a careful repast , ' the very reverse of the truth , for the repast was a mise- rable improvisation - the original expression is soucieux ' — and the meaning - an anxious and scanty ...
... living in the mountains , the translator makes him eat a careful repast , ' the very reverse of the truth , for the repast was a mise- rable improvisation - the original expression is soucieux ' — and the meaning - an anxious and scanty ...
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Page 92 - To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood; to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances, which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar; With sun and moon and stars throughout the year, And man and woman; 6 this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talents.
Page 173 - ... from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it : and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
Page 170 - Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.
Page 463 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
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Page 476 - Now them that are such we command and exhort, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Page 157 - What we have said of miracles, may be applied, without any variation, to prophecies; and indeed all prophecies are real miracles, and as such only can be admitted as proofs of any revelation.
Page 84 - What would'st thou have a good great man obtain? Place? titles? salary? a gilded chain? 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 92 - Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.