The Quarterly review, Volume 53Murray, 1835 |
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... effects often astonish me ! ' - p . 334 . In another passage he gives us a kind of arithmetical measure of his own good qualities . In stating to his brother the narrow- ness of his allowance of 6000 francs per annum , he adds , - ' I ...
... effects often astonish me ! ' - p . 334 . In another passage he gives us a kind of arithmetical measure of his own good qualities . In stating to his brother the narrow- ness of his allowance of 6000 francs per annum , he adds , - ' I ...
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... effect of his own courage , firmness , and decision , over the intimidated Hindoos . Intimidated they no doubt were by the unjustifiable violence of such an assault , but we are much mistaken if Jacque- mont did not owe his impunity to ...
... effect of his own courage , firmness , and decision , over the intimidated Hindoos . Intimidated they no doubt were by the unjustifiable violence of such an assault , but we are much mistaken if Jacque- mont did not owe his impunity to ...
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... effect of what they intend . Their books are very clever , and with these slight blemishes very amusing - without them they would be delightful ! that that he had also approached the sources of the Po 40 Correspondance de Victor Jacquemont ...
... effect of what they intend . Their books are very clever , and with these slight blemishes very amusing - without them they would be delightful ! that that he had also approached the sources of the Po 40 Correspondance de Victor Jacquemont ...
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... effects of unbalanced evil . What Mr. Rickman seems alone to contemplate is the cir- cumstance where parishes and ... effect till ' from and after 31st Dec. 1812. ' In elucidation of what is here intended , we will In Population of ...
... effects of unbalanced evil . What Mr. Rickman seems alone to contemplate is the cir- cumstance where parishes and ... effect till ' from and after 31st Dec. 1812. ' In elucidation of what is here intended , we will In Population of ...
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... effect . We venture to make these suggestions , notwithstanding what Mr. Malthus calls Mr. M'Culloch's very peculiar and untenable argument , ' but what we should call his paradoxical dogma , that the expatriation of Irish landlords ...
... effect . We venture to make these suggestions , notwithstanding what Mr. Malthus calls Mr. M'Culloch's very peculiar and untenable argument , ' but what we should call his paradoxical dogma , that the expatriation of Irish landlords ...
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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.