The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 95Archibald Constable and Company, 1825 - English literature |
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... admirable science , I might say , peculiarly ' my own . The roughnesses of no thick or tangled herbage , if I may so speak , interposed to cloud or deceive the nicety and directness of my scien- tific touch . After pursuing , during the ...
... admirable science , I might say , peculiarly ' my own . The roughnesses of no thick or tangled herbage , if I may so speak , interposed to cloud or deceive the nicety and directness of my scien- tific touch . After pursuing , during the ...
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... my practised fingers , like a dexterous player on the musical - glasses , he would , I have no doubt , sink down before me in awe and admiration ; -he would believe these singular manuals of 1823 . Defence of Phrenology .
... my practised fingers , like a dexterous player on the musical - glasses , he would , I have no doubt , sink down before me in awe and admiration ; -he would believe these singular manuals of 1823 . Defence of Phrenology .
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and admiration ; -he would believe these singular manuals of my science were the trophies of my success in war , —that I was kindling and inflaming my courage by the sight of these awful monuments of my prowess , -like the hungry lion ...
and admiration ; -he would believe these singular manuals of my science were the trophies of my success in war , —that I was kindling and inflaming my courage by the sight of these awful monuments of my prowess , -like the hungry lion ...
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... admiration and con- viction than any profane and irreverent movements of ridicule or incredulity . I may here communicate to you , somewhat in confidence , that several of my associates - zealous and enthusiastic proselytes of this ...
... admiration and con- viction than any profane and irreverent movements of ridicule or incredulity . I may here communicate to you , somewhat in confidence , that several of my associates - zealous and enthusiastic proselytes of this ...
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... admirable and piercing acumen , and endeavour to shake myself free from anxiety or disquietude . My wife , indeed , fre- quently hints that my religion sits about me more loosely than heretofore , and fears , that , as I have lately ...
... admirable and piercing acumen , and endeavour to shake myself free from anxiety or disquietude . My wife , indeed , fre- quently hints that my religion sits about me more loosely than heretofore , and fears , that , as I have lately ...
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Page 547 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 134 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so...
Page 547 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Page 549 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls ? Say, why is this?
Page 69 - Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.
Page 299 - Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Page 299 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high To bitter Scorn a sacrifice And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
Page 411 - If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him : and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
Page 548 - With wondrous potency. Once more, good night, And when you are desirous to be blest, I'll blessing beg of you.
Page 416 - A set o' dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o