The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 108A. Constable, 1858 |
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... hand , in not a few departments of de- corative art . Looking at this object in reference to this form alone , Miller speaks of it as it then not unnaturally appeared to him a beautifully finished piece of sculpture - one of the ...
... hand , in not a few departments of de- corative art . Looking at this object in reference to this form alone , Miller speaks of it as it then not unnaturally appeared to him a beautifully finished piece of sculpture - one of the ...
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... hand to possess such powers of description as this man , ' and spoke of the comparative meagreness and poverty of his own . The real charm , however , as well as the real value of his work , lay deeper than its mere descriptions ...
... hand to possess such powers of description as this man , ' and spoke of the comparative meagreness and poverty of his own . The real charm , however , as well as the real value of his work , lay deeper than its mere descriptions ...
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... hand - breadth into the air , thick as hailstones in a thundershower . The amazing amount of life which the scene included has imparted to it an indescribable interest . On most oc- - casions the inhabitants of ocean are seen but by 14 ...
... hand - breadth into the air , thick as hailstones in a thundershower . The amazing amount of life which the scene included has imparted to it an indescribable interest . On most oc- - casions the inhabitants of ocean are seen but by 14 ...
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... hand , there has been a struggle to bring these facts within the domain of natural law ; for in science there is nothing so un- comfortable as a fact which cannot be assimilated with other facts belonging to the ordinary course of ...
... hand , there has been a struggle to bring these facts within the domain of natural law ; for in science there is nothing so un- comfortable as a fact which cannot be assimilated with other facts belonging to the ordinary course of ...
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... hand , the obstinacy or timidity of those who refuse to accept the evi- dences of physical truth when they interfere , or seem to do so , with traditionary interpretations of Scripture . He rejects , on the other hand , the theory that ...
... hand , the obstinacy or timidity of those who refuse to accept the evi- dences of physical truth when they interfere , or seem to do so , with traditionary interpretations of Scripture . He rejects , on the other hand , the theory that ...
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Page 85 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 254 - A still salt pool, lock'd in with bars of sand ; Left on the shore ; that hears all night The plunging seas draw backward from the land Their moon-led waters white.
Page 240 - I find his grace my very good lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me, as any subject within this realm : howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof, for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us), it should not fail to go.
Page 127 - Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind, Let all their thoughts be unconfined, And clap your padlock on the mind.
Page 121 - CANDOUR, - which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well; Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame, Convinced that all men's motives are the same; — And finds, with keen discriminating sight, BLACK'S not so black; - nor WHITE so very white.
Page 123 - Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U — — niversity of Gottingen, — — niversity of Gottingen.
Page 121 - Both must be blamed, both pardoned ; — 'twas just so With Fox and Pitt full forty years ago ; So Walpole, Pulteney ; — factions in all times, Have had their follies, ministers their crimes." Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow ; But of all plagues, good heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh ! save me from the candid friend...
Page 510 - I cannot tell, but conclude they were all lost. For my own part, I swam as fortune directed me and was pushed forward by wind and tide. I...
Page 239 - ... till he waxed weary. Verily, God be thanked, I hear no harm of him now. And of all who ever came in my hand for heresy, as help me God, else had never any of them any stripe or stroke given them, so much as a fillip in the forehead...
Page 510 - Six of the Crew, of whom I was one, having let down the Boat into the Sea, [xao] made a Shift to get clear of the Ship, and the Rock.