The Quarterly review, Volume 53Murray, 1835 |
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... question , juridically only , to the immediately adjacent counties , -as they have been , for election purposes , by the late Reform Bill ; and future censuses would no more be disturbed by the one regulation than by the other . The ...
... question , juridically only , to the immediately adjacent counties , -as they have been , for election purposes , by the late Reform Bill ; and future censuses would no more be disturbed by the one regulation than by the other . The ...
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... question of fearful import . Hitherto the blessing of our insular situation has enabled us to carry on the works of ... questions , which the occupation - columns in the returns of the population may assist in solving . We shall here ...
... question of fearful import . Hitherto the blessing of our insular situation has enabled us to carry on the works of ... questions , which the occupation - columns in the returns of the population may assist in solving . We shall here ...
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... question ; and the present confirmation of the Carlisle Tables cannot but be satisfactory to all parties , retrospectively , who have had the good fortune to con- sult Mr. Milne as to the value of life annuities and reversionary ...
... question ; and the present confirmation of the Carlisle Tables cannot but be satisfactory to all parties , retrospectively , who have had the good fortune to con- sult Mr. Milne as to the value of life annuities and reversionary ...
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... question , had a noble pleasure and pride in his belief - whether altogether well - founded or not we have some doubts - that he in- herited not only this serene scorn of mere worldly distinctions , but a gallant indifference to ...
... question , had a noble pleasure and pride in his belief - whether altogether well - founded or not we have some doubts - that he in- herited not only this serene scorn of mere worldly distinctions , but a gallant indifference to ...
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... question it , shoulder it , flap it with the tail , turn it over , look askance at it , take a pea - shell or a worm instead of it , and plunge again their contented heads into the comfortable mud ; after some seasons the same food will ...
... question it , shoulder it , flap it with the tail , turn it over , look askance at it , take a pea - shell or a worm instead of it , and plunge again their contented heads into the comfortable mud ; after some seasons the same food will ...
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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.
Page 148 - And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night...
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.