The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 108A. Constable, 1858 |
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... reader of strange books — a teller of queer stories — a leader in expeditions among the caves and precipices of the neighbour- ing coast . But in the learning which all scholars of his class in Scotland look to as the principal object ...
... reader of strange books — a teller of queer stories — a leader in expeditions among the caves and precipices of the neighbour- ing coast . But in the learning which all scholars of his class in Scotland look to as the principal object ...
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... reading , and has only a few of the best books to read . His writings show an extensive knowledge of English literature ; but it was gathered slowly , through the course of years , from volumes acquired singly and at intervals , -from ...
... reading , and has only a few of the best books to read . His writings show an extensive knowledge of English literature ; but it was gathered slowly , through the course of years , from volumes acquired singly and at intervals , -from ...
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... reading . He worked with such a will , and , consequently , with such success , that in the very first year of his residence in Edin- burgh as editor of the Witness , ' he published in that journal the series of papers which constitute ...
... reading . He worked with such a will , and , consequently , with such success , that in the very first year of his residence in Edin- burgh as editor of the Witness , ' he published in that journal the series of papers which constitute ...
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... reading of the wondrous inscription chiselled deep in the rocks . It furnishes us with no clue by which to unravel the unapproachable mysteries of creation ; these mysteries belong to the wondrous Creator , and to Him only . We attempt ...
... reading of the wondrous inscription chiselled deep in the rocks . It furnishes us with no clue by which to unravel the unapproachable mysteries of creation ; these mysteries belong to the wondrous Creator , and to Him only . We attempt ...
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Or Critical Journal. of metaphysical speculation had introduced him early , amongst his various reading , to the works of Hume , as well as to those of his principal opponents . The fallacy of conclusions , opposed to the universal ...
Or Critical Journal. of metaphysical speculation had introduced him early , amongst his various reading , to the works of Hume , as well as to those of his principal opponents . The fallacy of conclusions , opposed to the universal ...
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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.