The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 165A. Constable, 1887 |
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... line of starvation ; all the product is consumed on the spot ; money is scarce , and famine periodical , if not frequent . He is rarely well off unless he has other means of support . Many peasants in Belgium combine agricultural with ...
... line of starvation ; all the product is consumed on the spot ; money is scarce , and famine periodical , if not frequent . He is rarely well off unless he has other means of support . Many peasants in Belgium combine agricultural with ...
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... line could be drawn , according to Arthur Young's statement , from the north of Derbyshire to the extremity of Northumberland which should pass entirely over waste land . Partly in consequence of the Report of the Committee on Waste ...
... line could be drawn , according to Arthur Young's statement , from the north of Derbyshire to the extremity of Northumberland which should pass entirely over waste land . Partly in consequence of the Report of the Committee on Waste ...
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... lines would give tenants every necessary security and inducement for skilful and liberal farm management . But , even if complete security for the outlay of capital were provided , the farmers ' grievances would not be ended . In ...
... lines would give tenants every necessary security and inducement for skilful and liberal farm management . But , even if complete security for the outlay of capital were provided , the farmers ' grievances would not be ended . In ...
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... lines . Here the British farmer pays the carriage bill of his foreign rival . Free trade never contemplated cheap- ening food by conferring a bounty on foreign farmers at the expense of home producers , or by giving a premium not to the ...
... lines . Here the British farmer pays the carriage bill of his foreign rival . Free trade never contemplated cheap- ening food by conferring a bounty on foreign farmers at the expense of home producers , or by giving a premium not to the ...
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... lines of ' Moral ' wind up this intolerable page of the Newgate Calendar . ' Joanna was transported for her crimes , retrieved her character in Australia , married a rich settler , and lived for many years respected and beloved by all ...
... lines of ' Moral ' wind up this intolerable page of the Newgate Calendar . ' Joanna was transported for her crimes , retrieved her character in Australia , married a rich settler , and lived for many years respected and beloved by all ...
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Page 118 - Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.
Page 97 - But whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth good: and the object of his hate and aversion, evil; and of his contempt, vile and inconsiderable.
Page 530 - It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of which •would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse...
Page 524 - He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? You, Mr.
Page 101 - ... how absolutely universal is the extent and at the same time how completely subordinate the significance, of the mission which mechanism has to fulfil in the structure of the world.
Page 248 - It was an age of valetudinarians, in many instances of imaginary ones ; but below its various crazes concerning health and disease, largely multiplied a few years after the time of which I am speaking by the miseries of a great pestilence, lay a valuable, because partly practicable, belief that all the maladies of the soul might be reached through the subtle gateways of the body.
Page 363 - I have only zeal and good intentions to bring to this work ; I can have no merit in it, that must all belong to Mr Sadler. It seems no one else will undertake it, so I will ; and, without cant or hypocrisy, which I hate, I assure you I dare not refuse the request you have so earnestly pressed. I believe it is my duty to God and to the poor, and I trust He will support me. Talk of trouble! what do we come to parliament for?
Page 522 - God's respect to the creature's good, and his respect to himself, is not a divided respect; but both are united in one, as the happiness of the creature aimed at, is happiness in union with himself.
Page 139 - Douglas blood, With mitre sheen, and rocquet white. Yet show'd his meek and thoughtful eye But little pride of prelacy ; More pleased that, in a barbarous age, He gave rude Scotland Virgil's page, Than that beneath his rule he held The bishopric of fair Dunkeld.
Page 92 - He was 40 yeares old before he looked on Geometry ; which happened accidentally. Being in a Gentleman's Library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and 'twas the 47 El. libri i. He read the Proposition. By G — , sayd he (he would now and then sweare an emphaticall Oath by way of emphasis) this is impossible...